Dozens of passengers refused to take a flight from Spain to Scotland after fuel spilled from their plane before take-off.
The Flyglobespan aircraft was preparing to leave Alicante for Aberdeen when 43 of the 140 people on board decided not to take the flight.
They became concerned after fuel overflowed from the plane’s wing.
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A school has been left without water after a stream was dammed to divert the supply to the new home of a former health board chairman.
Engineers called out to investigate the shortage at Cliasmol School on Harris found a dam had been built illegally.
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Two men have been sentenced to nine years in jail for handling Scotland’s biggest ever opium haul.
Ali Abed, 34, and Fatholla Abedi, 40, were caught when £54,000 worth of the drug was uncovered at an English airport en route to Aberdeen.
The pair were found guilty at the city’s sheriff court three weeks ago [...]

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Publishing giant DC Thomson has been criticised after it reprinted a 1939 annual which contained racist references to black people.
A reader condemned the inclusion of a comic strip from the original 1939 Dandy annual which included a term deemed unacceptable in modern society.
The issue has led to calls for the withdrawal of the [...]

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A programme to tackle sectarian behaviour in children as young as three could be launched in Scotland.
A seminar in Edinburgh will gauge opinion on whether such a campaign is needed.
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Race riots could erupt in rural towns and villages with large numbers of Eastern European immigrants, a Government report will warn.
A special commission says community tensions are now more likely to overheat in rural areas than northern mill towns with a history of troubles.
Councils will be told they must draw up integration plans [...]

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A high-risk sex offender is back in custody after he escaped from a hospital in Lanarkshire.
William Graham was found at about 1900 BST on Saturday in a house in Whitburn in a joint operation by Strathclyde and Lothian and Borders police forces.
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