Scotland could run out of cash just like Greece, Scottish Sunday Express

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cotland would need to severely downsize its financial sector in order to avoid a major economic crisis if the country votes to break away from the rest of Britain.

According to former Scottish Government economist Florian Baier and former Bank of England economist Erik Britton, an independent Scotland would be left over-reliant on its financial sector and North Sea oil.

The economists’ upcoming paper for Fathom Consulting estimates the country’s banking assets as potential liabilities would be 1,100 per cent of GDP, similar to the liabiities that caused an economic crisis in Iceland in which its government took over three of its largest banks in 2008.

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Dog owner to sue council because her spaniel slipped a disc in GRASS and she cannot afford to pay the £5,000 vet bill Daily Mail

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 dog owner plans to sue a council for thousands of pounds after her pet slipped a disc in grass while chasing a cat.

Scooby, a three-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, was injured after getting his leg caught in long grass on council-owned land in Brighton, East Sussex.

His disabled owner Rebecca Richardson, 48, claims that she now faces a £5,000 veterinary bill which she cannot afford to pay as she lives on benefits.

Campaigners criticised Mrs Richardson and her husband Steven, 49, for their claim and said it was yet another example of the ‘compensation culture gone mad’.

But Mrs Richardson said Brighton and Hove City Council, which owns her house and the land outside it, was negligent and ‘completely responsible’ for what happened to her pet. 

She claimed that she and other neighbours had been asking for the long grass outside their homes to be cut for a month before the accident. 

  Scooby the spaniel slipped a disc after getting his leg caught in long grass

  Disabled owner Rebecca Richardson, 48, says she now faces £5,000 vet bill

  Claims she cannot afford to pay it as she lives on benefits at Brighton home

  Believes city council is 'responsible' for fall because it failed to cut the grass

  But campaigners deem claim an example of 'compensation culture gone mad'

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Clegg in royal row after saying Prince Charles living a 'nightmare' waiting to be King, Daily Express

The Deputy Prime Minister found himself in hot water after commenting on the debate about whether the Queen should abdicate the throne.

The Queen, 88, will become Britain's longest serving monarch next year when she overtakes Queen Victoria's reign of 63 years and seven months.

Prince Charles has been heir to the throne for 62 years.

Clegg was overheard stepping into the debate by saying: "I've always quite liked him [Charles] actually. It must be a nightmare just being in this ante-room for decades."

His comments caused backlash among Tories who believe ministers should not comment on royal affairs.

Stuart Andrew, MP for Pudsey in West Yorkshire, told the Mail on Sunday: "Given that next year the Queen will become our longest-serving monarch, Nick Clegg's remarks are as untimely as they are disrespectful.

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EXCLUSIVE: Calais lorry drivers BEG for aid as migrants turn VIOLENT, Daily Express

They say French police have given up trying to deal with gangs of up to 100 migrants who surround lorries and demand passage across the ­Channel under threat of violence.

The situation is so bad they want the British Army to be called in to help protect the drivers.

Many have been verbally abused or physically attacked and one needed hospital treatment after being kicked and punched by an angry mob.

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