THREE men appeared at the High Court in Glasgow today accused of murdering schoolboy Kriss Donald almost two years ago.
Imran Shahid, 29, Mohammed Mushtaq, 27, and Zeeshan Shahid, 28, formally pleaded not guilty to stabbing Kriss, 15, and setting him on fire, during a preliminary hearing before Lord MacPhail.
The three deny abducting Kriss [...]

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A British soldier has been killed in Iraq after coming under small arms fire, the Ministry of Defence said.
The incident happened in Maysan Province at 0840 GMT on Monday, the ministry said.
The soldier was from the 7th Armoured Brigade, serving with the 1st Battalion The Highlanders.
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An 11-year-old girl from Glasgow has been treated in hospital for the effects of smoking heroin after she collapsed at school.
The girl, who has not been named, fell ill at a primary school on Wednesday. She is now said to be recovering.
A spokesman for Glasgow City Council said the girl was admitted to [...]

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A DRUG addict who stole a pair of trainers from the feet of a dead man has been jailed for five months.
Ross McCreath, 29, snatched the £55 Lacoste trainers as people tried to revive Robert Dunn, who had collapsed in an alley.
He was later caught, but told police he had been forced to [...]

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A man who allegedly threatened to blow up a train from Glasgow on Friday has appeared before a court in Paisley.
The sheriff heard that Mohammed Hakeem, who is 42, was arrested further down the line at Port Glasgow.
Solicitor Paul Langan said his client denied the charge, which was brought as a racially aggravated [...]

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POLICE have smashed a counterfeit DVD ring after seizing more than £300,000 worth of discs from a Glasgow flat.
The haul - which included copies of blockbusters King Kong, Brokeback Mountain and The Chronicles of Narnia - was due to be sold in pubs, factories and offices across the city.
Investigators today said the raid [...]

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[Are any hetro's standing?-ed]

Liberal Democrat leadership contender Simon Hughes has explained why he has admitted having gay relationships.
The 54-year-old MP said in Thursday’s Sun that in the past he had had relationships with both women and men.
He said he had considered pulling out of the leadership contest but did not think the [...]

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[So this has nothing to do with freeing up troops (American) to invade Iran later this year?-ed]
The number of UK troops in Afghanistan will peak at 5,700, defence secretary John Reid has told MPs.
The majority will be sent to the south, to the volatile Helmand area, which Mr Reid admitted was a “more [...]

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Red kites have had their best breeding season in Scotland since they were reintroduced 16 years ago.
The bird of prey was extinct in Scotland for more than a century but was brought back 16 years ago.
RSPB Scotland said the number of breeding pairs and the young they hatched last year was probably [...]

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POLICE are hunting a gang who attacked a 20-year-old man in the Gallowgate in Glasgow.
Six men of Asian appearance got out of two cars and pushed their
victim to the ground at midnight on Saturday, before making off with cash and a mobile phone.
The man was uninjured. The vehicles used were a [...]

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POLITICIANS are being asked to ditch the Saltire as Scotland’s national flag because its “Christian symbolism” has little relevance to large sections of the population.
A motion being presented to the Scottish parliament will ask MSPs to approve a new “rainbow” flag that better reflects Scotland’s cultural and ethnic diversity.
Colin Fox, leader of [...]

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Computer printer firm Lexmark is to close its manufacturing plant in Fife, with the loss of 700 jobs.
Workers at the firm’s plant in Admiralty Park, Rosyth, were told that 500 jobs would be cut by April with the last 200 going by the end of the year.
The American-owned company, which makes printers and cartridges, [...]

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Scotland’s only Muslim school is to close voluntarily.
The Imam Muhammad Zakariya school in Dundee, which has 20 female pupils, had been struggling to survive after a report highlighting poor standards.
An inspectors’ report two years ago criticised the young and unqualified staff and said pupils received only a limited number of subjects.
A follow-up inspection [...]

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[All this publicity for a Jamican sled-dog racer? Can someone tell me who won the tournament? Was Scotland represented? If so were did Scotland finish?-ed]

A Jamaican sled-dog racer has taken part in Europe’s largest husky racing event.
Devon Anderson, 42, who had never seen snow before, travelled to [...]

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[What has bloody Sunday got to do with Scotland? Why allow the march in the first place? Did no-one tell the police that Rangers were playing at home on the same day? Good thing is that just 1,000 turned up and hopefully this is a sign that sectarianism is fading in Scotland-ed]
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Former Liberal Democrat leadership challenger Mark Oaten has stood down as the party’s home affairs spokesman over an alleged affair with a rent boy.
Mr Oaten released a statement apologising for the “embarrassment” caused to his family, friends and the Liberal Democrat party.
Married Mr Oaten, 41, and the MP for Winchester, dropped out [...]

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George Galloway faced a backlash from his constituents yesterday who accused him of abandoning them for television fame on Celebrity Big Brother.
Mixing with a Page Three girl, a former Baywatch actress and the former mistress of England coach Sven Goran Eriksson has not gone down well with many in east London.
Jim Fitzpatrick, the minister for [...]

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A total of 58 jobs are to go at the Coca Cola bottling plant in East Kilbride, it has emerged.
The company said the cuts were the result of restructuring throughout its UK operations.
It blamed the move on the highly competitive drinks market but stressed that the remaining 400 jobs were safe.
In a [...]

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JERUSALEM—Ending a strict, six-millennia prohibition of the consumption of cloven-hoofed beasts, the World Rabbinical Council announced Tuesday that Jews worldwide may “dig in to the delicious taste of ham.”
“The Jewish people have always had the utmost reverence for the laws of God, as handed down from Abraham to his son Isaac, to his son Jacob. [...]

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