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City boost as Salmond backs £40m tram link

Glasgow’s long-awaited trams-on-wheels project will receive Scottish Government funding and be operational by 2014, according to the chairman of the company set up to deliver the scheme.

£33m Rangers takeover bid on the brink of collapse

The £33 million takeover of Rangers is on the brink of collapse.

Plan to bring century of security to Firhill

The £20 million plan to secure the next 100 years of Partick Thistle Football Club has been made public for the first time.

Glasgow flats among worst for identity theft

Residents of a landmark building in Glasgow that has been converted into luxury flats are unwittingly living in one of the worst four places outside of London for the growing problem of identity fraud.

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Home News

Glasgow hosts big night for fashion hopefuls

The Scottish Fashion Awards is to be held in Glasgow for the first time ever, The Herald can reveal.

Ambitious Ibrox plan was never realistic

It was shortly after Glasgow secured the 2014 Commonwealth Games and plans were launched to redevelop the area around Celtic Park that city rivals Rangers revealed their own Ibrox masterplan.

Coconut shells at the ready as Python show trots north

And now for something completely different. A musical take on Monty Python’s classic comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail is coming to Scotland.

Politics

Watchdog in bid to stop politicians spinning official statistics

UK and Scottish Government ministers should lose their ability to have extended access to official statistics before they are released to minimise the opportunity to spin them.

SNP climbdown over ending council adverts in newspapers

The Scottish Government has backed down over plans to force local councils to remove public notices from newspapers and publish them on the internet instead.

Row as Brown quizzed over Purcell

The SNP yesterday dragged Gordon Brown into the controversy surrounding the departure of Steven Purcell from Glasgow City Council when the party’s Westminster leader, Angus Robertson, used Prime Minister’s Questions to link Downing Street to the fallen council leader.

Crime & Courts

Family is left devastated after domestic row ends in tragedy

A mother of two was shot dead by her husband who then turned the gun on himself in a tragic domestic incident.

Three are arrested over Pakistan kidnap

Three people have been arrested in Spain in connection with the kidnap of a five-year-old boy in Pakistan.

Cab licence granted in private

The first hearing under new legislation designed to weed out criminal elements in the taxi trade has allowed a cab firm with shareholder links to the late crime lord Tam McGraw to continue trading.

Health

Scots doctors dissect critical report

Scottish doctors have published a damning critique of a report which claimed Scotland had the most expensive but poorest health service in the UK.

Doctors fear waiting time guarantee will affect patient care

Doctors and nurses yesterday criticised new laws designed to improve patients’ rights, with claims implementing the legislation could instead hit care.

Scots scientists in rabies warning

Scots scientists have warned that controversial plans to ease controls on pet passports could spark the reintroduction of rabies to the UK.

Education

Scandinavia can teach Scotland about education

Local authorities have been encouraged by the Scottish Government to visit Scandinavia and Finland to learn lessons about the delivery of education.

Boost for Scots language in schools

The teachin o oor mither tongue tae bairns in schuil is faur ben, but mony dominies want tae ken the difference atween Scots and slang.

Behaviour improves in schools with police on campus

Scottish schools that have a police officer stationed on campus have seen a reduction in incidents of physical violence and criminal activity, according to an official study.

Transport & Environment

Garl’s demise good news for fast bus plan

It was always the Cinderella transport project during a decade of rapid development and unbridled, if sometimes outlandish, optimism as to what could be achieved during Glasgow’s transformation from post-industrial waste land to European destination.

Tram developers ‘responsible for delays’

Edinburgh’s tram developers agreed to shoulder the risk of a key phase of preparatory works that are running nearly two years late, the main contractor has alleged.

Government ministers ‘knew of rail strike risk’ since last February

The Scottish Government was warned more than a year ago that it risked sparking a rail strike by approving staffing arrangements on a new east-west train service, correspondence published yesterday revealed.

World News

Fake TV news report causes a panic in Georgia

Georgia’s Opposition accused the government yesterday of being behind a fake primetime news report that Russian tanks had entered the capital at the call of the opposition, causing

Final destination Iran?

Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.

How an Oscar-winning movie put Japan’s dolphin slaughter on the world stage

Oscar-winning documentary The Cove has brought worldwide attention to a tiny village of Taiji in Japan that embarks on the