Cost of new Navy carriers soars to £4.2bn

12:33am Tuesday 13th May 2008

Exclusive: The cost of Britain’s two new aircraft carriers has risen by £300m to £4.2bn before the first steel for the ship’s hulls has even been cut, The Herald can reveal.

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By IAN BRUCE, Defence Correspondent

	8700 dead in Chinese quake and ‘toll will keep rising’
	12:33am Tue 13 May 08
	A powerful earthquake is feared to have killed at least 8700 people in south-west China and trapped countless others.
	By WILLIAM TINNING

Paraglider killed after plunging into hillside gully

12:57am Tuesday 13th May 2008

A paraglider died last night after suffering serious injuries when he crashed into a gully on a hillside near Loch Lomond.

By WILLIAM TINNING

Blueprint is launched for a revolution in crofting

12:33am Tuesday 13th May 2008

A new report on crofting has put forward "radical ideas" for its future, including the abolition of the body which oversees the industry.

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By DAVID ROSS, Highland Correspondent

‘Buildings were evacuated, people were panicking ... it was mayhem’

12:09am Tuesday 13th May 2008

Photographs posted on the internet, showing arms and a torso sticking out of the rubble of a school where an estimated 900 pupils were buried, gave some idea of the scale of the earthquake that has hit south-west China.

By WILLIAM TINNING

‘They haven’t a clue what’s going to hit them when 100,000 arrive’

12:32am Tuesday 13th May 2008

The first fan appeared in the late afternoon. He stood at the edge of Manchester’s Piccadilly Gardens and blinked into the sun, his Union Jack waistcoat flapping in the slipstream of a passing tram.

Embryos use bill clears its first hurdle

12:51am Tuesday 13th May 2008

Controversial legislation to regulate the use of embryos in scientific research looked likely to pass its first hurdle in the House of Commons last night, amid protests that Labour MPs would be forced into a whipped vote to ensure its progress.

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By TORCUIL CRICHTON, Chief UK political correspondent

	Row over funding of city’s film industry
	12:08am Tue 13 May 08
	The future of the film industry in Glasgow is under threat according to city officials, who are accusing the Scottish Government of discriminating against the west of Scotland.
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By STEWART PATERSON

Nimrod crew’s families hear tape of plane’s final minutes

12:31am Tuesday 13th May 2008

A cockpit recording from an RAF Nimrod spy plane moments before it exploded in mid-air has been played to the families of the 14 men killed in the tragedy.

Police officer at murder scene ‘was father of the accused’

12:07am Tuesday 13th May 2008

The father of a man accused of shooting a waiter in an Indian restaurant 14 years ago was a police constable at the scene, a court heard.

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By ALISON CAMPSIE

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