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LowVARates.com, an approved lender of Flagship Financial, is home to many of the top producing VA loan officers in the nation. LowVARates.com takes pride in providing VA home loans for thousands of veterans and military families across the nation. Lehi, Utah (PRWEB) April 10, 2012 The recently released 2012 Scotsman Guide features four of the top 10 VA loan officers in the nation from LowVARates.com. The company also places another three loan officers in the top 25 giving...
TUCSON, Ariz., April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- NOVA Home Loans is proud to announce that 6 of its Loan Officers rank as the Top Loan Originators in the country according to the Scotsman Guide, a national mortgage publication. Paul Volpe, Vice President and Senior Loan Officer with NOVA, was ranked 3rd in number of closed loans and 5th in most dollar volume. Additionally, Volpe earned the ranking of 2nd in year-over-year volume gain and 9th in purchase volume. The Scotsman Guide results cement Volpe...
Scottish musicians like Tommy Reilly and Midge Ure are set to perform at an event recognizing the end of Scotland's Year of Homecoming 2009, organizers say. Geoff Ellis, head of the DF Concerts promotional firm, said Homecoming Live: The Final Fling will bring to an end the Scottish campaign intended to draw people of Scottish ancestry to the country of their roots, The Scotsman reported Sunday. This is a homecoming gig, the kind of thing that is going to bring people back to Scotland, Ellis...
Energy officials say the Robin Rigg Wind Farm in Scotland's Solway Firth is set to produce electricity for the country's national grid. Jenny Hogan, a Scottish Renewables senior wind energy officer, said the Robin Rigg farm will represent the first offshore wind farm in Scotland's history when it begins producing electricity in the next few days, The Scotsman reported Friday. Scotland's first commercial offshore wind farm heralds the dawn of a new era in harvesting green energy from our...
Plans to create a six-star hotel in a 19th-century Scottish castle that once hosted Queen Victoria have crashed with the development company.The corporate restructuring company KPMG confirmed Friday that administrators for Taymouth Group now plan to put Taymouth Castle on the market, The Scotsman reported.Taymouth Castle on the River Tay in Perthshire was completed in 1810 in Gothic style by the Fourth Earl of Breadalbane. Queen Victoria visited in 1842 on her first Scottish tour, spending...
Golf courses in Scotland, the country where the sport was born, are trying to woo new members with relaxed dress codes. Scottish Golf Union officials wore blue jeans and T-shirts to announce the plan at the Hilton Park course near Glasgow, Scotland, The Scotsman reported. Hilton Park and the Swanston New Golf Club in Edinburgh have recently increased their membership by adopting policies more friendly to families and more in tune with modern sportswear. Clubs across Scotland are short about...
By Ian Stewart THE e-mail is simply signed Judy Steel, Aikwood Tower, but it is of course from Lady Steel, wife of Sir David Steel - Baron Steel of Aikwood. Sir David is the former Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament and former leader of the Liberal Party. Lord and Lady Steel have restored their peel tower in the Borders, which has many historical connections, so it perhaps no surprise that Lady Steel's complaint also has historical connections. And she doesn't mince her words....
By Jenny Haworth SCOTLAND's seas are at risk of "a death of a thousands cuts" unless crucial new laws put protection of our fragile marine ecosystems firmly at their heart, environment groups have warned. There are fears the Scottish Marine Bill is set to focus too strongly on using the seas to boost economic growth, through activities such as offshore renewables, fishing and shipping, rather than on protecting precious underwater habitats. A year after The Scotsman launched its Save Our...
By FIONA MacLEOD EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT TEACHERS are demanding the Scottish Government delays introducing the new school curriculum amid concerns it will prove impossible to implement under the current timetable. The Curriculum for Excellence was expected to be used by every school from next August, but teachers say it cannot be done in the time available. At a meeting of the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association Council on Saturday, a motion was passed calling for a delay until...
Fishermen and environmental leaders in Scotland called for the European Union to change a policy that has $74 million in cod discarded every year. The selection process required by the European Union means roughly half the cod caught in nets must be thrown back, a waste of 100,000 metric tons of fish a year, The Scotsman reported Friday. "The scale of the problem beggars belief," said Scottish Environmental Minister Richard Lochhead. "Crazy European regulations mean that, at a time of...
