What is news?

I suppose that the Scottish broadsheet press has to report these developments but they are hardly newsworthy.

Thus The Herald has this story:

Nearly a quarter of residents in some of Scotland's most deprived communities turned to their GP with depression in a year, according to a survey.

If I lived in some of the more benighted areas of Scotland's cities, I'd be depressed. Wouldn't anybody?

Meanwhile, The Scotsman has this one:

LAST night, some of Edinburgh's top business leaders gathered at the capital's International Conference Centre for a debate which, they hoped, would reveal the real facts about the costs of independence and the Union.
Alex Salmond, the SNP leader, accepted the invitation, but Jack McConnell, the First Minister, did not.

Listen, it will be news when the First Minister agrees to a debate with Mr Salmond - yet another refusal is simply par for the course.

Most ridiculous of all, The Scotsman thinks that more digging up of Edinburgh's streets is worthy of comment:

ROADWORKS for Edinburgh's tram scheme are expected to start in a month's time, the city council said yesterday.
Work will begin in Leith, with the two-phase project continuing for more than three and a half years.
The diversion of utility pipes and cables for water, gas, electricity and telecommunications will be followed by construction of the tram lines.

They obviously have not walked (or driven) around Edinburgh's streets recently: roads are dug up and re-dug up, as if there were special awards for disrupting the traffic.