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- This collection of circles is now destroyed, the correct grid ref would have been SW36753306, but I've tweaked it slightly so that the pin appears in the right place on the inline map. |
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- FARMERS yesterday said the ban on meat exports, imposed following the outbreak of foot and mouth in England, should be lifted early in Scotland. |
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- A £180 MILLION project which was intended to banish the phrase "painting the Forth Bridge" to the history books will fail to achieve its aim. |
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- THE First Minister plans to meet BBC chiefs to demand a separate 6pm news programme for Scotland, it emerged yesterday. |
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- FOLLOWING the Office of Fair Trading's recommendation to open up the Scottish legal market, MARGARET LANG and TONY WILLIAMS ask what the future may bring for firms |
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- TERMS such as free-range can mislead shoppers, ALASTAIR JAMIESON and SHÂN ROSS write |
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- SCOTLAND may have to wait until next year before careless drivers who kill on the roads can be jailed, because of delays in deciding how a new law should be applied south of the Border. |
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- DAVID LECKIE reflects on the long-awaited law on corporate homicide, which recently received Royal Assent and will apply on both sides of the Border |
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- SCOTLAND must be given powers over broadcasting to create a public service more attuned to the needs of the nation, writes GEORGE KEREVAN |
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- AMERICAN sports fans woke up yesterday and heard the news they had been dreading: the most iconic and celebrated record in the United States is now jointly held by a man most of the country thinks is a cheat. |
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- IF MEN are from Mars and women are from Venus then "builders must be from Pluto" - that's the view of Kevin McCloud, presenter of Channel 4's Grand Designs. |
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- SHE was the prima ballerina whose career at the Royal Ballet came to an abrupt end following a row with her leading man. |
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- TWO members of the same family were swept to their deaths by a giant wave as they clambered on to rocks to take photographs. |
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- BEING a hairdresser is one of the most satisfying modern jobs, a new survey reveals today. |
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- THE bitter battle that is being fought over the proposal to build a wind farm at Edinbane, on the Isle of Skye, has stepped up a gear. |
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- THREE little clicks - "Word", "File", "New" - and there staring back at me is my old friend "Document 1". |
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- COMMON sense has prevailed. The OFT believes that current restraints on lawyers in Scotland are unnecessarily restrictive, and I agree with them. Neither the OFT nor Which? is saying that solicitors and advocates should go into business together, or... |
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- AMERICAN forces in Iraq said yesterday they had killed the mastermind of an attack on a gold-domed Shiite shrine last year that triggered the worst phase of the country's spiral into sectarian violence. |
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- THE ban on livestock movement triggered by the foot-and-mouth outbreak hit agricultural shows across Scotland at the weekend. |
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- ROBIN Mitchell has been made head of Archibald Campbell & Harley's commercial property department. Mitchell joined AC&H in 1996 and became a partner five years ago. |
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- ZIMBABWE'S once world-renowned International Book Fair wound up this weekend with a whimper, with its only foreign exhibitor - the embassy of Iran - packing Islamic tracts and political brochures into cardboard boxes. |
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- A WAY of making tiny objects levitate by reversing a mysterious force of nature has been proposed by two physicists at a Scottish university. |
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- FOURTEEN asylum seekers were still being hunted last night after they escaped from a detention centre. |
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- ELDERLY Holocaust survivors in Israel have marched outside Israel's parliament yesterday to demand more state support. |
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- SCOTTISH universities might give extra weighting to state school pupils when dealing with oversubscribed courses, education officials have admitted. |
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- FEARS are growing that epidemics will strike the millions marooned or forced from their homes by South Asia's catastrophic floods as the death toll climbed to at least 330 and criticism of relief efforts spread. |
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- THE director of the Fringe's top comedy awards defended the genre yesterday, saying she was "totally mystified" by claims it was swamping the festival. |
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- POLICE officers in Portugal last night ended a two-day search at the home of Robert Murat, the only official suspect in the case of missing Madeleine McCann. |
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- YOUTUBE, the video-sharing website, hopes to filter out unauthorised copyrighted material by the end of the year, according to a lawyer for its owner, Google. |
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- A FATHER and son who were on their way to take part in a shoot in Dumfries-shire were among four people killed in a helicopter crash at the weekend. |
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- AFGHAN doctors delivered medicines yesterday for 21 South Koreans kidnapped by Taleban rebels in Afghanistan more than two weeks ago. |
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- A SURVEY of MPs' summer reading habits has revealed that the Tories are swotting up on Gordon Brown - while Labour politicians are questioning the existence of God. |
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- THREE teenagers died and another was injured after they were lined up against a wall in a school car park and shot in the head. |
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- JUMP for joy? Not if it's trademarked. The car giant Toyota is considering suing an Australian airline for using a particular style of jump in its advertising. |
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- THE Bank of England is expected to hint this week that interest rates will need to rise to 6 per cent before the end of the year in order to bring inflation back to target. |
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- AN AMERICAN member of al-Qaeda yesterday threatened to target foreign diplomats and embassies in the Islamic world, calling them "spy dens". |
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- WORRIED that crude language may hamper its world image, China has banned the use of slogans like "Raise fewer babies but more piggies" to promote family planning, |
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- NEW severe forms of the deadly infection Chlostridium difficile are to be the focus of a new network set up to tackle serious super- bug problems in Scotland. |
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- EAGLE owls nesting in Scotland may be doing so entirely naturally, according to a new report. |
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- A CHARITY that strung up thousands of bras stretching for six miles to raise money for breast cancer sufferers today received an unexpected royal donation. |
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- A MAN who suffered the loss of his hands and feet in a mountaineering accident yesterday completed an arduous 24-hour triathlon. |
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- A 64-YEAR-OLD man was last night charged with the murder of a young mother and her son whose bodies were found in their home after they had been missing for several days. |
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- AN INVESTIGATION is underway after a cargo ship collided with a gas platform in the North Sea and then sank. |
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- HUNDREDS of holidaymakers were left stranded yesterday after a holiday company's only plane was grounded for the second time in two weeks. |
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- THOUSANDS of teenagers across Scotland have been switching on computers and mobile phones today to find out if they passed their exams. |
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- A DISGRACED peer who was jailed for fire-raising has returned to Scotland to take up a post at an Edinburgh-based lobbying company. |
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- AN ANIMAL rights activist has called for an investigation into alleged breaches of animal welfare at a tourist attraction aquarium launched with £20 million of public money. |
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- A LIGHT aircraft crashed in a field shortly after take-off yesterday killing all four people on board. |
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- DOZENS of bananas failed to do the trick but an Indian thief has finally produced a gold necklace he had snatched and then swallowed after police fed him a hearty meal of chicken, rice and bread. |
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- A BANKER shot dead on the doorstep of his family home owed £50,000 to loan sharks, it was revealed yesterday. |
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- POLICE were last night trying to identify a body found floating in the Firth of Forth near Burntisland. |
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- MORE than 300 West Bank gunmen with ties to president Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement have given up their weapons as part of an amnesty deal with Israel. |
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- THE body of a pensioner, missing from his Edinburgh home since last week, has been found. |
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- ALMOST a third of people have regretted not using a condom with a new partner, a survey revealed yesterday. |
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- A MAN in his 20s who was seriously assaulted by a group of youths in Fife has died in Kirkcaldy's Victoria Hospital, police have confirmed. |
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