It is all, the official admitted, completely unprecedented. Vicky Rosin, assistant chief executive of Manchester City Council, knows her town has never faced such logistical challenges.
A firm with offices in both Glasgow and Manchester has come up with a way to prevent staff calling in sick as Rangers embark on their bid for Uefa cup glory tonight.
Footage of the devastating impact of home-made liquid bombs eight men allegedly plotted to set off on transatlantic airliners was shown at their trial yesterday.
The Army has almost 400 more senior officers on its payroll than it had in 2004, despite the fact that its frontline "bayonet strength" is 3800 soldiers short of full strength.
It was a triumph of technology over adversity in the great Scottish outdoors. When walker Niels Vinther took badly ill in a Highland glen early yesterday morning, he used a £149 device to trigger an international rescue.