[15 years for this slaughter!-ed]

A Rwandan rebel who killed four British tourists has been jailed for 15 years.
Jean-Paul Bizimana, 31, was convicted last week of the killings at Uganda’s Bwindi National Park in March 1999.
The four Britons, as well as two Americans, two New Zealanders and a tour guide, were bludgeoned to death with [...]

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Hundreds of soldiers from the Royal Scots are heading out for a tour of duty in Iraq following one of the country’s most violent weeks.
About 200 servicemen left from Edinburgh’s Dreghorn Barracks, with 200 more leaving early on Monday.
The 1st Battalion The Royal Scots will replace the Inverness-based 1st Battalion The Royal Irish. [...]

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[What sort of parents dump their child in another country-ed]
YOUNG Teshani Pathirana was on a trip to Britain with her family when she was told they could never return home.
Then aged just 12, she was thousands of miles away from her Sri Lankan village, but had to accept she would probably never see her friends [...]

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AMERICAN anti-war campaigner Cindy Sheehan brought her message of peace to Glasgow in front more than 150 supporters.
The 60-year-old, whose son was killed in the Iraq war, was given a standing ovation at a Bring The Troops Home rally in a city hotel.
She was joined by fellow campaigners Rose Gentle, from Pollok, Glasgow [...]

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Sixteen months after EU enlargement, an average of 16,000 eastern Europeans are arriving each month in the UK to work.
This is much more than expected ahead of enlargement, with a government study last year forecasting an annual total of just 5,000 to 13,000 workers.
But multicultural Britain has so far been able to absorb all the [...]

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[What about the rise in HIV in Scotland?-ed]
Scotland is to help fight HIV and Aids in Malawi as part of its co-operation agreement with the African country.
The First Minister Jack McConnell made the pledge at the start of a two-day conference in Edinburgh.
He told politicians and experts in the audience that Scotland would [...]

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Scotland wants to tempt back millions of expatriates to halt population decline
SCOTLAND is to embark on an unprecedented charm offensive to encourage expatriates to return to their homeland.
Jack McConnell, First Minister of the devolved Scottish Executive, will fly the Saltire in Australia, the United States, Canada and South Africa to tempt Scots home.
First stop [...]

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Biologists at the University of Liverpool in the UK have published new research suggesting that the reason why ten per cent of Europeans are immune to HIV infection is because of the plagues that swept the continent in ancient times.
Scientists have known for some time that these individuals carry a genetic mutation (of the [...]

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FASLANE submarine base and the nearby Coulport missile depot are vulnerable to a deadly mortar or suicide boat attack, a nuclear weapons expert warns in a new book.
Dr Brian Jamison says the geographical position of the two facilities makes them susceptible to an al-Qaeda attack, and claims that submarines are rarely escorted by armed [...]

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[If someone else said that they would be branded racist-ed]
FIREBRAND Islamist cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed — banned from Britain since August — has urged Muslims to leave Europe.
Mr Bakri, a Lebanese national of Syrian origin who was living in Britain since 1986, was interviewed by France 3 television in Beirut.
He has been based there since [...]

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EXTREMIST groups have sympathisers and supporters in almost every corner of Britain including many parts of Scotland, anti-terrorist officials believe.
MI5 and Special Branch officers have drawn up a so-called extremist map of the UK showing the locations of groups and individuals suspected of involvement with militant groups, it was revealed yesterday.
The map, which [...]

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Scotland has been named the most violent country in the developed world by a United Nations report.
The study found that, excluding murder, Scots were almost three times as likely to be assaulted as Americans.
Victims of crime in 21 countries were interviewed by the UN, but senior Scots police officers criticised the study.
The survey [...]

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A young Paisley woman who was caught up in the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina has flown back to Scotland.
The family of 23-year-old Cheri Smith have spoken of their “massive relief” at her safe return from New Orleans.
The student had gone to the city to unwind with friends after 12 weeks of [...]

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SCOTLAND’S only tank regiment is to be sent to Iraq to fight as light infantry because the army is running out of foot soldiers.
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (RSDG), which helped spearhead the armoured assault on Basra in 2003, is to swop most of its 68-tonne Challenger 2 tanks for rifles when it deploys back [...]

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People of Indian and Pakistani origin living in Scotland are 60% to 70% more likely to have a heart attack but less likely to die, according to a study.
Edinburgh University researchers used ethnicity data from the 2001 population census to find out more about the links between ethnicity and certain diseases.
They found that 30% [...]

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[I thought cultural differences were suppose to be celebrated-ed]
A SCOTS oil worker has caused an international stink – simply by breaking wind.
His flatuence upset colleagues in an African office so much they made an official complaint.
The unnamed employee was branded a ‘biohazard’ by angry co-workers who filed a ‘hazardous situation report’ about his behaviour.
And the [...]

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THREE suspects wanted over teenager Kriss Donald’s murder are returning to face trial in Scotland, it was revealed yesterday.
The three are being held in a foreign country where they were arrested last month.
And yesterday there was a major breakthrough in the 17-month murder inquiry when they appeared before a magistrate.
Scottish police had planned to [...]

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British Airways flights are starting to get back to normal after an unofficial 24-hour strike by baggage handlers at London’s Heathrow Airport.
BA managers in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen have advised passengers to turn up for travel as usual.
They said they would book passengers on alternative flights if necessary to clear the backlog.
Talks to [...]

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An Algerian-born Briton has been arrested in Thailand with hundreds of forged European passports intended for sale in London, Thai officials say.
Mahieddine Daikh, 35, was stopped at Bangkok airport early on Wednesday in possession of 452 fake passports from Spain, Belgium, Portugal and France.
Local police said Mr Daikh confessed to buying the [...]

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THE World Cup arrived in Scotland yesterday, but the hundreds of footballers aiming to win it have much more important things on their mind than medals and silverware The 27 nations competing for glory at the Homeless World Cup kicked off in Edinburgh – and a group of dedicated Scots players were leading the way [...]

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