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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Says US Removing Scotch Tariffs After UK King’s Visit]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate Sullivan]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:37:44 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scottish Nationalists Set for Majority at Election, Poll Shows]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:12:34 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[BP’s Billion-Dollar Bombshell]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Louise Moon]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:14:35 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scotland Plans Property Tax on Homes Worth Over £1 Million]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:06:49 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kongsberg Buys US Missile Company Zone 5 for Undisclosed Sum]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:15:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scotland Plans to Sell Its First Ever Government Bonds]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Reed]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:23:51 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[PPI to Buy SBB’s Social Property Portfolio for $3.4 Billion]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Daly]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:03:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump’s Aberdeen Golf Resort Posts 13th Straight Year of Losses]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Reed]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 06:06:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Labour Surprises in Scotland With Win Over Farage, Nationalists]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 04:34:43 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>HAMILTON, SCOTLAND - JUNE 06: Davy Russell, Scottish Labour candidate, celebrates with Anas Sarwar, Jackie Ballie and Monica Lennon (L) after winning the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election on June 06, 2025 at South Lanarkshire Council Headquarters in Hamilton, Scotland. The Scottish parliamentary constituency of Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse is holding a by-election, following the death of MSP Christina McKelvie in March. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scotland’s Sturgeon Cleared by Police in SNP Finance Probe]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:44:26 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[UK Oil Ruling Sets Up Growth Versus Climate Test for Government]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitchell Ferman]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scotland to Remove Child-Benefit Cap in Challenge to Labour Party]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:23:29 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Equinor Says Halt to Review Rosebank Permit Risks Years of Delay]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Shell Urges Court Not to Halt UK North Sea Oil and Gas Projects Over Flawed Permits]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Reed]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:22:42 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Mobile offshore drilling units stand in the Port of Cromarty Firth in Cromarty, U.K., on Wednesday, March 22, 2017. Even as oil production declined in the North Sea over the last 15 years, economic activity has been buoyed by offshore windmills.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Alex Salmond, Champion of Scottish Independence, Dies at 69]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scottish Political Map Redrawn After Labour Routs SNP]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Reed]]></dc:creator>
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                <media:description>John Swinney on July 5.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scottish National Party Hammered as Labour Set to Win Big]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Reed]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2024 21:40:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Altor Snaps Up Hg’s Software Firm F24 in Sign of Buyout Revival]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eyk Henning]]></dc:creator>
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            <title><![CDATA[QatarEnergy Signs 15-Year Urea Supply Deal With Koch Fertilizer]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scotland’s Swinney Gives Rival Key Role in Bid for Party Unity]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Reed]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 13:25:35 GMT</pubDate>
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