Labour leadership contest heats up –  114

EAST Lothian MSP Iain Gray launched his bid for the leadership of the Labour Party in Scotland yesterday.
He promised a fresh start for Labour voters and formally stepped into the leadership race.
The former enterprise minister vowed to put the party’s recent Glasgow by-election defeat in the past while addressing a crowd [...]

Army hero cleared over barracks brawl 113

by Paul Thornton
AN army hero wept as he was cleared over a fight which left another soldier brain damaged and battling for his life.
Paul Pattie, 31, was put in a week-long coma after blood pooled between his brain and his ear when Robert Hamilton punched him.
The father-of-one spent weeks in hospital and months at a [...]

Student jailed over child porn images 112

by Paul Thornton  
A GIFTED student who told police he downloaded child porn during a bout of amnesia has been jailed for six months.
Lyle Milne, 23, was caught with four sickening videos showing young children being abused when cops raided his flat.
They had been tipped off by a disgusted flat-mate who was looking for music on [...]

War honour for ‘forgotten soldier’ 111

by Alexander Lawrie
A SCOTTISH soldier killed during WW1 has finally been honoured – more than 90 years after he fell on the battlefield.
Robert Liddle Kilgour died during the Third Battle of Ypres – more commonly known as Passchendale.
And the brave private’s name has been missing from his hometown’s war memorial ever [...]