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SUNDAY 27 JULY

A9 crash
Three adults and a two-year-old boy were killed when two vehicles crashed and burst into flames on the main Perth to Inverness road in the Highlands.

waterfall
A 31-year-old man has been rescued after getting trapped in total darkness on a ledge behind a waterfall near Loch Lomond.

kenny richey
Kenny Richey, the Scot freed from death row in America earlier this year, has been detained by the police after an incident in Scotland's capital.

SATURDAY 26 JULY

crash scene
Three adults and a two-year-old boy were killed when two vehicles crashed and burst into flames on the main Perth to Inverness road in the Highlands.

Kenny Richey
Kenny Richey, the Scot freed from death row in America earlier this year, has been detained by the police after an incident in Edinburgh.

mine
A 44-year-old woman has died in hospital after falling about 40ft down disused mine workings in Galston in Ayrshire.

FRIDAY 25 JULY

John Mason
The Scottish National Party has pulled off a stunning by-election victory by winning Glasgow East, one of Labour's safest seats, by 365 votes.

Alex Salmond
The SNP has won the Glasgow East by-election, with John Mason overturning a Labour majority of 13,507 in a stunning triumph.

election result
Scotland's first minister has challenged Gordon Brown to "change his policy or change his job" after the SNP's Glasgow East by-election victory.

THURSDAY 24 JULY

cs lewis
An Edinburgh couple have lost a battle with the estate of Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis over a web domain name.

by-election
The polls close in the Glasgow East by-election as nine candidates contest the Westminster seat which was vacated by Labour's David Marshall on health grounds..

GP
A Glasgow GP has been suspended for six months by the General Medical Council after prescribing sleeping tablets to a suicidal patient.

WEDNESDAY 23 JULY

Narnia
An Edinburgh couple have lost a battle with the estate of Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis over a web domain name.

Police
A murder inquiry has been launched after a man was stabbed to death while out for a walk with his girlfriend and her two young children in Edinburgh.

JK Rowling
Best-selling author JK Rowling has spoken of her regret that she never told her mother about her world-famous creation, Harry Potter.

TUESDAY 22 JULY

JK Rowling
Best-selling author JK Rowling has spoken of her regret that she never told her mother about her world-famous creation, Harry Potter.

Vicky Pickering
A four-year-old and her grandfather who died in a collision in the Highlands were on their way to the funeral of a relative also killed in a crash.

Sea defences
Concerns have been raised that a former council tip on a cliff in Fife may be inches from washing into the sea, polluting the beach.

MONDAY 21 JULY

Wind farm
Development plans to build Europe's largest onshore wind farm in South Lanarkshire have been approved by Scottish ministers.

Tower block
Two multi-storey tower blocks in Glasgow are reduced to 16,000 tons of rubble in eight seconds during a controlled explosion.

Brian Hobbs
A man has admitted beating and kicking to death a Scottish holidaymaker in a crowded bar in the Canary Islands.

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