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COURTS: Socialist ex-MSP Tommy Sheridan launched a fresh legal bid yesterday to clear his name amid claims of an “extensive criminal conspiracy.”
Mr Sheridan was jailed for three years in 2011 after he was found guilty of lying under oath during a successful defamation lawsuit against News of the World hacks, who had alleged the sitting Scottish Socialist MSP had snuck off to an Edinburgh swingers’ club without his wife’s knowledge.
The appeal request is now before the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission.
POVERTY: At least one in seven people in Scotland will still languish below the poverty line even a decade from now, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation warned yesterday.
Nearly one in five working-age adults and children in Scotland live in poverty today, with an employment rate of 73.5 per cent.
The SNP aims to improve rates to 80 per cent by 2025, but the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s analysts warned even a boost comprised entirely of full-time jobs would leave 14.6 per cent still in poverty.
INDUSTRIAL: French state-owned energy firm EDF and union Unite are to hold last-ditch talks tomorrow over the company’s attempts to wriggle out of a pay agreement.
Industrial action hit EDF last month with two one-day stoppages after it refused to implement a pay deal signed in 2012.
Action is to resume with a 24-hour strike from midnight on Sunday, followed by a work-to-rule and selective industrial action, unless an agreement is reached during planned talks at conciliation service Acas.
INDUSTRIAL: BBC journalists yesterday voted to ballot for strike action after dismissing a “derisory” 1 per cent pay offer.
The broadcaster’s NUJ members called for major reform at the corporation to address the huge differential between the pay of journalists and programme-makers and that of senior management.
They demanded a radical overhaul of executive pay and perks, noting the salary of both the BBC’s director general Tony Hall and managing director Anne Bulford stands at £450,000 a year. The strike ballot will run from June 20 to July 11.
