Scotland's week in the news

BBC News Online Scotland looks back at the stories making the headlines over the last week.

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A mother told a fatal accident inquiry on Monday that her eight-year-old son died in a doctors' surgery after suffering an asthma attack.

Michelle Hynes said she was disgusted at how Owen Charleston was treated at the health centre in Cumbernauld.

Scottish fishermen's leaders said they plan to breach restrictions limiting them to 15 days at sea each month.

The Scottish White Fish Producers' Association (SWFPA) said its members would go to sea for 24 days a month.

On Tuesday the Scottish Executive unveiled details of its tobacco control action plan, which aims to cut the number of smoking-related deaths.

It included a range of measures designed to help more smokers kick the habit, which kills 13,000 people in Scotland every year.

Mutual life insurer Standard Life said it might seek a stock market listing.

Such a move could mean windfall payments for the Edinburgh-based company's policyholders.

Abbey said it was moving 900 jobs to Glasgow

Police carried out raids on a number of homes and businesses in Glasgow on Wednesday in an operation to target suspected money laundering activities.

Officers were issued with search warrants for the premises through the Proceeds of Crime Act.

Banking giant Abbey announced plans to transfer 900 staff from Edinburgh to Glasgow, including those employed in the company's Scottish Provident arm.

The move was condemned as "redundancy by another name" by unions.

On Thursday, leading lawyers criticised the executive's policy of increasing the numbers of temporary judges to hear High Court cases.

Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson has defended the charge, which was levelled by the Faculty of Advocates.

A chemical spillage sparked an alert at a leisure centre on Friday

There were also calls for lawyer and Dundee FC director Giovanni Di Stefano to step down from the club.

They were sparked by a documentary in which he praised dictators like Saddam Hussein and Mussolini.

Two adults and 39 children were taken to hospital after a chemical spillage at a leisure centre in Callander on Friday morning.

Police said the alert was sparked after a two litre bottle of bleach was knocked over by a member of staff.

Three-year-olds spend just 25 minutes a day exercising, a study by Glasgow University researchers found.

They warned that children would be more prone to obesity later in life if they adopted sedentary habits.

Scots MPs were asked if they plan to vote on tuition fees

A Scottish soldier who lost a leg in Iraq said on Saturday that he would be "disgusted" if claims that he was a victim of equipment shortages are true.

Colour Sergeant Albert Thomson, of the Royal Highland Fusiliers, said he first read the reports in a newspaper.

About 250 people demonstrated outside the French Consulate in Edinburgh against plans to ban the wearing of headscarves in France's state schools.

The protest was organised by the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB).

The vast majority of Scottish MPs plan to vote on proposals to allow English universities to charge higher tuition fees, it emerged on Sunday.

A poll for BBC Radio Scotland's Sunday Live programme found that only seven Labour MPs planned to vote against the government on the issue.

Veteran Labour MP George Foulkes has announced his intention to retire at the next general election.

The member for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley entered parliament in 1979.