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Westminster's word is "final" and there will be no currency union for an independent Scotland, leading Scottish Lib Dem Danny Alexander said yesterday.
The Chief Treasury Secretary ruled out a deal to share the sterling before a bevy of pension fund managers in Edinburgh.
But economists have suggested the matter could already be out of Westminster's hands.
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
Our two-tear Chancellor’s woes at PMQs caused a multimillion-pound sinking feeling on the bond market, writes ANDREW MURRAY