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HE IS one of the most senior figures in Scottish football with a reputation as an articulate, level-headed and peaceable man.







Woman offered '£200 to be sterilised'

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 13:44 — Andy

A woman has claimed she was approached near a health centre in Glasgow by three women who offered her £200 if she agreed to be sterilised.







A SCOTTISH atom bomb survivor and former Japanese prisoner of war yesterday marked the 65th anniversary of Hiroshima by defending the decision to drop the bombs that ended the Second World War.







The world’s first human testing of a mind-controlled artificial limb is ready to begin.







A security researcher created a cell phone base station that tricks cell phones into routing their outbound calls through his device, allowing someone to intercept even encrypted calls in the clear.







New plan to use whisky as fuel

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:26 — Andy

EVERYONE knows drinking and driving don't mix.
But Edinburgh scientists have discovered a way of blending whisky and cars to come up with a positive, if unexpected result.







A man who threatened to eat a police officer has been jailed for 15 months.

Patrick Wallace, 40, admitted committing the offence at Galashiels Police Station last June.