Tommy Burns
	12:01am today
	The tragic and untimely death of Celtic legend Tommy Burns at the age of just 51 will sadden football lovers everywhere.

Sister Xavera

12:01am today

Sister Xavera, who has died aged 88, was a remarkable woman whose life in Scotland was spent with the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary, based at Campsie Glen, Lennoxtown.

Pat Eady: An appreciation

12:02am Wednesday 14th May 2008

Aviator and hotelier; Born August 10, 1931; Died March 1, 2008. "CAPTAIN Pat" learned to fly in his native New Zealand and later answered a recruiting call from British European Airways.

Irena Sendler

12:02am Wednesday 14th May 2008

Saviour of Jewish children; Born February 15, 1910; Died May 12, 2008. Irena Sendler, who has died aged 98, was credited with saving some 2500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of them in baskets.

Jeff Torrington

12:19am Tuesday 13th May 2008

Author; Born December 31, 1935; Died May 11, 2008. JEFF Torrington, who has died aged 72, published only two books in his lifetime yet is one of contemporary Scotland's best-loved writers. It is striking the affection with which he is regarded, testament to the tremendous exuberance of his work. It derives from a confidence that reveals something of the best of us. Maybe we respond to that in his work.

Klaus Dinger

12:06am Monday 12th May 2008

Musician; Born March 24, 1946; Died March 20, 2008. KLAUS Dinger, who has died of heart failure four days before his 62nd birthday, played in two of the most influential avant-garde rock bands born from the post-1960s European counter-culture.

Nicky Ross

12:06am Monday 12th May 2008

Precision-bombing Lancaster pilot with 617 Squadron; Born August 1, 1917; Died April 18, 2008. NICHOLL Ross, who has died aged 90, was an RAF pilot who became a leading exponent of precision bombing during the Second World War, using the five-and-a-half ton "earthquake" explosives devised by Dr Barnes Wallis.

Irvine Robbins

10:21pm Friday 9th May 2008

Co-founder of Baskin-Robbins ice-cream; Born December 6, 1917; Died May 5, 2008. IRVINE Robbins, who has died aged 90 after a long illness, was co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice-cream empire which brought Rocky Road and other exotic concoctions firstly to consumers in the US and then to a worldwide audience.

Peter Neilson

10:18pm Friday 9th May 2008

Peter Neilson who has died aged 61, was one of the leading Scottish trade unionists of his day, an immensely respected colleague and a man of outstanding decency.

Richard Alexander

12:26am Friday 9th May 2008

Solicitor and politician; Born June 29, 1934; Died April 20, 2008 Richard Alexander, who has died aged 73, was the Aberdeen-born Conservative MP for Newark during the party's 18 years in government from 1979-97. He championed an eclectic range of causes during his time in parliament, from small businesses to homosexual equality and, unusually for a Tory, pit closures which affected his constituency.

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