Football fans want Scotland games on free TV

12:24pm Friday 9th May 2008

Most people believe Scotland international football games should be live on free-to-view TV, a survey of viewers today found.

20 comments

Salmond offers a Commons pact to Cameron

12:42am Friday 9th May 2008

Gordon Brown’s woes deepened last night as he faced Labour’s worst opinion poll results since records began and the possibility of an unprecedented SNP-Tory alliance at Westminster after the next General Election.

	Watsonians club rugby player ‘tests positive for cocaine’
	12:41am Fri 9 May 08
	A young rugby player with a well-known Edinburgh club has allegedly tested positive for cocaine during a routine doping test.
	8 comments
By ALISON CAMPSIE

Home Secretary dismayed as radical preacher bailed

12:39am Friday 9th May 2008

A firebrand preacher once described as "Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe" has been granted bail by an immigration tribunal.

28 comments

By ALISON CHIESA

US planes carrying supplies to Burma are refused entry

12:39am Friday 9th May 2008

Two US military aircraft containing a cargo of food, water and medicine have been refused entry to cyclone-hit Burma.

13 comments

By ALISON CAMPSIE

	Some aid flows to Burma despite military’s refusals
	12:29am Fri 9 May 08
	Aid started to trickle into devastated Burma last night as the UN estimated that Cyclone Nargis has affected 1.5 million people with 100,000 dead.
	By ALISON CAMPSIE

Parents face £1m claim after boy is injured on their bouncy castle

12:27am Friday 9th May 2008

A teenager who was brain damaged when he was kicked in the head on a bouncy castle yesterday won a damages action against the couple who hired it for their children’s birthday party.

31 comments

Edinburgh Castle and Kelvingrove top visitor attractions in record year

12:20am Friday 9th May 2008

A record number of people were drawn to visitor attractions across Scotland last year with Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Edinburgh Castle being named as the most popular places.

8 comments

By ALISON CAMPSIE

‘No hope of justice’ as man acquitted of murder

12:51am Friday 9th May 2008

The family of a Scot stabbed to death outside a pub in Bath said yesterday they had "no hope for justice" after a teenager was acquitted of the murder.

By CAROLYN CHURCHILL

‘I’m no monster... I was acting out of love for my daughter’

12:23am Friday 9th May 2008

Josef Fritzl yesterday broke his silence to give a jailhouse interview in which he defended his 24-year rape and imprisonment of his daughter.

More ...