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TERROR TOOL? Troubled investor
visa program raises security fear

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• FEDERAL PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS foreign investors to obtain US visas by investing large sums in American commercial projects raises concerns over whether the program can be 'infiltrated' by potential terrorists, including operatives from Iran.
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• Judge deals blow to NSA phone data collection program
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"Nuclear power is too expensive" says INEOS tycoon Ratcliffe   By Owen O'Donnell  INEOS boss, Jim Ratcliffe has warned that nuclear power provided by the new Hinkley Point C plant will be unaffordable for UK manufacturers. The owner of the Grangemouth complex, responsible for the production of 70% of Scotland's fuel, said that the government's guaranteed minimum price of £92.50 per megawatt hour (Mwh) from the Somerset plant, backed by French ... Read More

• SNP slams 'perverse' £100bn cost of next generation nuclear weapons

  
  

• Westminster Committee calls for an end to Bedroom Tax

  
  

• Westminster's 'Trident obsession' slammed as Hammond targets millions more at nuclear weapons

  
  

• Better Together backer linked SNP to "nationalist extremism"

  
  

• Scottish Lords can keep titles after independence says Lib Dem peer

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NEWS - SCOTLAND AND INTERNATIONAL

"Nuclear power is too expensive" says INEOS tycoon Ratcliffe   By Owen O'Donnell  INEOS boss, Jim Ratcliffe has warned that nuclear power provided by the new Hinkley Point C plant will be unaffordable for UK manufacturers. The owner of the Grangemouth complex, responsible for the production of 70% of Scotland's fuel, said that the government's guaranteed minimum price of £92.50 per megawatt hour (Mwh) from the Somerset plant, backed by French ... Read More

• SNP slams 'perverse' £100bn cost of next generation nuclear weapons

  
  

• Westminster Committee calls for an end to Bedroom Tax

  
  

• Westminster's 'Trident obsession' slammed as Hammond targets millions more at nuclear weapons

  
  

• Better Together backer linked SNP to "nationalist extremism"

  
  

• Scottish Lords can keep titles after independence says Lib Dem peer