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Daily Express today desperately tries to link it to Scotland but nothing in Scotland looks anything like the mass child grooming rape gangs in England</news:title><news:keywords>writing, politics, news, family, mental-health</news:keywords></news:news></url><url><loc>https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/07/02/112282/</loc><news:news><news:publication><news:name>Talking-up Scotland</news:name><news:language>en</news:language></news:publication><news:publication_date>2026-07-02T10:10:28+00:00</news:publication_date><news:title>NHS Scotland&#8217;s greater spending, some independence, better staffing and care integration will offset some of the 20 000 avoidable deaths Starmer offers us in his US deal</news:title><news:keywords>politics, news, nhs, health, mental-health</news:keywords></news:news></url><url><loc>https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/07/02/nhs-scotland-to-be-hammered-for-hundreds-of-millions-in-us-drug-deal-scotland-had-no-say-in/</loc><news:news><news:publication><news:name>Talking-up Scotland</news:name><news:language>en</news:language></news:publication><news:publication_date>2026-07-02T09:03:08+00:00</news:publication_date><news:title>NHS Scotland to be hammered for hundreds of millions in US drug deal Scotland had no say in</news:title><news:keywords>scotland, politics, news, nhs, health</news:keywords></news:news></url><url><loc>https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/07/02/localised-pollution-in-fife-could-be-a-risk-but-the-were-no-could-bes-when-cryptosporidium-in-london-diarrhoea-in-devon-human-waste-in-the-thames-and-in-windermere-and-sick-sheep-in-a-york/</loc><news:news><news:publication><news:name>Talking-up Scotland</news:name><news:language>en</news:language></news:publication><news:publication_date>2026-07-02T08:25:52+00:00</news:publication_date><news:title>&#8216;Localised pollution&#8217; in Fife &#8216;could&#8217; be a risk but the were no could be&#8217;s when Cryptosporidium in London, Diarrhoea in Devon, Human Waste in the Thames and in Windermere and Sick sheep in a Yorkshire burn were found</news:title></news:news></url><url><loc>https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/07/01/should-have-thought-of-this-years-ago/</loc><news:news><news:publication><news:name>Talking-up Scotland</news:name><news:language>en</news:language></news:publication><news:publication_date>2026-07-01T19:39:28+00:00</news:publication_date><news:title>Should have thought of this years ago</news:title></news:news></url></urlset>
