The Caledonian Mercury - Scottish news, stories and intelligent analysis Opinion: Scotland must secede from more than just the UK if it wants independence
By Russell Cavanagh Today’s Edinburgh is a far cheerier place than that gloomy city I left in late 1997 for exile in Sheffield. Sure, the city’s beggars have proliferated, almost to the point where they constitute a humming economy on their own; and memories of North Sea blasts make even South Yorkshire winters seem a