Winning idea to find new boss

By Rory Reynolds

A SCOTTISH business group has launched its own Apprentice-style competition to find a new boss to head up its operation.

Edinburgh-based Winning Entrepreneurs are appealing to young business minded hopefuls to bid for the position as head of the group, who meet to share business experience and ideas.

Applicants will be thankful that they don’t have fiery self-made multi-millionaire and government business tsar Alan Sugar to impress.

But they will have to win over seasoned Scots businesswoman Belinda Roberts, along with BBC Online Dragon and Shaf Rasul.

The winning applicant – who will have to have impressed judges with their business acumen and present a campaign – will become an apprentice managing director, before taking over the group’s mantle.

Erskine Edinburgh veterans mark Remembrance Day

By Oliver Farrimond

PROUD veterans at the Erskine Army Recovery Centre in Edinburgh laid wreaths yesterday in memory of their fallen colleagues.

Veterans from conflicts from the Second World War to the present day took a few solemn moments to reflect on private memories of service, as well as current British Army operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Conducted by Reverend David Dixon, the Armistice Day service was held in the gardens of the home in the Gilmerton area of the Capital.

Lieutenant-Colonel Leslie Barr, 85, served with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry after the Second World War, and said that the service gave him the opportunity to remember his own father, who died in Australia after being gassed.

He said: “Today is the actual remembrance day, which we’ve had now for a number of years, so here we are on the eleventh day, the eleventh month and the eleventh hour.

RBS launches Mobile Banking App

By Rory Reynolds

WORRIED that beleaguered RBS bankers might lose your money and go cap in hand looking for another taxpayer funded government bail out?

Well now there’s an App for that.

Part state-owned RBS has now launched an iPhone App to allow customers to keep an eye on their finances – just months after announcing the biggest banking loss in British history.

The bank – which was once the wealthiest in the world by assets – is encouraging its customers to keep organise their own finances – after laying off a further 3,700 of its own staff.

The Mobile Banking App will allow customers to check their balance, move cash between accounts and set a balance limit on the account – to ensure that you don’t splash your cash.

Vile Nazi symbols tarnish kids’ mural on Remembrance Day

By Rory Reynolds

SICKENING Nazi symbols have tarnished a community mural painted by children on the day that as Scotland remembers its war dead.

Swastikas and Hitler moustaches have been scrawled over the pictures painted on the wall of a community centre in Edinburgh.

Local residents and kids spent a month painting the mural, which depicts children with different skin colours playing, only to find that it had been defaced with shocking Nazi imagery.

George White, 46, chairman of the community centre’s committee, said the tarnished mural was deeply unsettling to everyone.

Speaking yesterday, he said: “The whole community is totally horrified – this is a school playground and the kids are asking questions.

Cabin crew staff go Ryan-bare for charity

By Rory Reynolds

BUDGET airline staff havegone from Ryanair to Ryan-bare – by stripping off to raise £100,000.

The airline’s yearly calendar is set to raise a record sum for the KIDS charity, which supports disabled children.

Last year the airline’s campaign came under fire after Labour MEP Mary Honeyball claimed that the firm were forcing cabin crews to take off their clothes for the calendar.

But this year the Irish-based airline’s chief Michael O’Leary hit back, saying that the calendar raised hundreds of thousands for charity – and even sent one of the first copies to the MEP herself.

The airline say that the calendars have raised around £270,000 over the last three years.

Newspaper Round-Up Wednesday November 11th