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- THE public are to be told not to smoke in their own homes as part of plans to protect public sector workers from the effect of passive smoking. |
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- SECURITY at Edinburgh's Hogmanay street party is to be stepped up in the wake of the London bombings, senior police have revealed. |
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- CRIMINAL legal aid to Scotland's top lawyers has more than doubled in the past five years, a report revealed yesterday. |
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- FANS turn out to cheer as Sir Elton John and partner David Furnish attended their civil partnership ceremony. |
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- STORE card providers may have to issue "wealth warnings" to consumers over high interest rates in moves to improve the sector announced by the Competition Commission yesterday. |
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- A SERIES of agencies failed to spot signs which might have prevented a couple leaving their five children to starve in squalor, a report has found. |
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- SADDAM Hussein yesterday accused his American guards of beating him, after his trial heard some of the strongest evidence yet linking the former Iraqi president and his co-defendants to alleged torture. |
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- A SUSPECTED groper died after he was tackled by a group of men who accused him of molesting a 20-year-old woman on a rush-hour train in Japan. |
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- THE Palestinian Authority said yesterday it will cancel parliamentary elections planned for next month if Israel refuses to allow Palestinians in East Jerusalem to vote. |
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- SCOTTISH multi-millionaire Sir Tom Hunter was vindicated as "entirely honest" yesterday following a gruelling court case that had threatened to severely damage the entrepreneur and philanthropist's reputation. |
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- TONY Blair faced down his rebel MPs yesterday, telling them he would not "retreat into a political comfort zone" by caving in to their objections over his election-winning reforms. |
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- A PILOT and his observer were killed yesterday when their helicopter crashed in mysterious circumstances. |
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- THE efficacy of the drug stockpiled by the government in case of a flu pandemic was under question again yesterday after a teenager died despite being treated with it. |
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- A TEENAGE gang member who stabbed a rival to death on the day he was given automatic early release from a sentence for possessing a knife was ordered yesterday to serve a minimum of 15 years in jail. |
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- A "FRIGHTENED" mother who shot a teenage schoolboy with an air rifle as she tried to scare youths away from her remote home was spared jail yesterday. |
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- FIVE members of a "family from hell" were facing life in prison last night for murdering a mother of two who had married into the household. |
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- SCOTLAND'S three biggest football stadiums will ban smoking from early next year - even though they are under no obligation to do so. |
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- THE Christmas getaway is set to bring chaos to Britain's road network today, with traffic experts warning that it is the worst day to travel. |
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- A BENEVOLENT secret Santa has been turning bitterness into bliss by paying the parking fines of random strangers. |
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- A TEENAGER'S "courageous" attempts to flag down a passing cruiser to help her drowning father and sister on Loch Lomond were mistaken as a greeting, an accident report said yesterday. |
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- ONE of Scotland's most respected judges has attacked the Executive's plans to create a Scottish human rights 'tsar'. Lord McCluskey described the proposed £75,000-a-year Human Rights Commissioner as a "gadfly". |
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- THE Tate Gallery has admitted paying £3.1 million to recover two stolen Turner paintings, despite earlier saying no ransom was paid. |
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- IN ONE of the bloodiest incidents for more than a decade, Shining Path guerrillas ambushed and killed eight police officers, amid fears that money from drug trafficking is giving the Peruvian rebel group a new lease of life. |
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- IRAN reaffirmed its determination to pursue a fully-fledged nuclear programme yesterday as European negotiators re-opened dialogue with Tehran over concerns that it is secretly trying to make atomic bombs. |
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- ETHIOPIA yesterday said it would seek "hundreds of millions of dollars" in compensation after an international commission ruled Eritrea started a war between the two countries. |
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- THE increase in High Court cases over the years is self-evident, and people need to be defended. With more cases, the cost of defending people is clearly going to be higher. |
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- SCIENTISTS have proved that jogging makes you smarter. |
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- THE government's handling of investigations into the deaths of Iraqi civilians in the aftermath of the war was condemned as "inadequate" by the Court of Appeal. |
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- PLANS by pop star Madonna and Guy Ritchie, her film director husband, to celebrate their wedding anniversary in the exclusive Highland castle where they exchanged their marriage vows five years ago, were scuppered yesterday because of aircraft problems. |
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- THE European Commission has approved a bill to impose stricter emission standards for vehicles and to close a loophole that allows fuel-guzzling sports utility vehicles (SUVs) to escape the EU pollution limits. |
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- SUNNI Arab and secular political groups in Iraq joined forces yesterday to demand a rerun of last week's election, claiming there had been massive fraud. |
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- THE police chief leading security measures at Edinburgh's Hogmanay street party was criticised last night for declaring he would allow "old ladies" into the event without being searched. |
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- GAY couples around Britain rushed to wed for the first time yesterday as the new legislation came into force across the nation. |
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- FOOD standards officers are warning shoppers not to buy certain luxury brands of imported French cheese and butter which may be contaminated with a potentially lethal strain of E coli food poisoning. |
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- TIREDNESS brought on by turkey and all the trimmings is the "silent killer" on the roads at Christmas, drivers were warned yesterday. |
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- ALMOST £1.375 billion will be paid out in prize money in Spain today, in the world's biggest mass gamble. |
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- TRAFFIC restrictions on one of Europe's busiest bridges that have frustrated motorists with delays and congestion for almost a year are to be removed today following the completion of refurbishment work. |
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- AN ADVERTISING tycoon has sold £12 million in shares to help fund his £29 million divorce. |
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- Long-distance travel of all kinds leads to a small but increased risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a government-published report said yesterday. |
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- WHEN Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the popemobile for his weekly audience in St Peter's Square, onlookers could have been forgiven for thinking Santa Claus was in town. |
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- THE mother of a baby found abandoned in Edinburgh may have come from eastern Europe. The verdict came from experts who used sophisticated technology to examine material from the hair and fingernails of the baby. |
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- AN EMPTY oil tanker has been refloated after running aground near the Skye bridge. The 1,500-tonne British-registered vessel, Blackfriars, had been on its way from Lochinver to Pembroke, Wales, when it ran aground on rocks, known as Eileanan Dubha, in... |
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- THE International Monetary Fund approved $3.3 billion (£1.8 billion) in debt relief for 19 of the world's poorest countries last night and predicted that Mauritania would qualify for the relief in a matter of weeks. |
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- A BRITISH hostage freed after four days in captivity by armed Bulgarian police was said to be in a "grave" condition last night. |
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- A MOTHER of three has won the right to challenge her local NHS trust's refusal to give her the breast cancer drug Herceptin. |
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- A 40-YEAR-old woman was arrested yesterday in connection with the shooting death of a man and the wounding of his brother in a Greenock street. |
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- THE United States Senate yesterday rejected attempts to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. |
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- COMMUNITIES minister Malcolm Chisholm plans new measures to end homelessness by 2012. |
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- AN EIGHT-year-old British girl is fighting for her life after a train crash in Italy. |
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- A WING that fell off a seaplane before it crashed in the ocean off Miami, killing all 20 people on board, had cracks in the main support beam that had probably gone unseen for a long time, US investigators said. |
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- DEFEATED Liberian presidential candidate George Weah yesterday dropped his legal challenge against the result. |
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- RELIGIOUS leaders, authors, doctors and other campaigners gathered outside the United States consulate in Edinburgh yesterday to protest against so-called "torture flights" by the CIA landing in Scotland. |
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- NORWAY increased the quota for whale hunts by more than 30 per cent yesterday, to the highest level since the highly controversial hunts resumed in 1993. |
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- A HIGH Court judge, Mr Justice Crane, has given the go-ahead for the Melton Mowbray pork pie to be elevated to the same geographical status as Parma ham and Mortadella Bologna, thus protecting its name. |
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