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SUNDAY 17 MAY

Cyclist

Police are investigating after carpet tacks were spread across roads around Pitlochry in Perthshire, bringing a major cycle race to a halt.

Police at shooting scene

A man is in a serious condition in hospital after being shot and injured by the police at a railway station in North Lanarkshire.

Tayside Police

Police have named a 19-year-old man whose body was found by a member of the public in a street in Dundee over the weekend.

SATURDAY 16 MAY

Poice at shooting scene

A man is in a serious condition in hospital after being shot and injured by the police at a railway station in North Lanarkshire.

Kirk Broadfoot

Rangers defender Kirk Broadfoot was taken to hospital for treatment after an egg he was microwaving exploded in his face.

Tayside Police

An investigation is under way after the body of a man thought to be aged in his 20s was found in a street in Dundee.

FRIDAY 15 MAY

Kirk Broadfoot

Rangers defender Kirk Broadfoot has been taken to hospital after an egg he was microwaving exploded in his face.

ball in net

An order to wind up Stirling Albion FC has been sought by HM Revenue and Customs after it fails to pay thousands of pounds in tax.

Scotch pie

Football clubs have been accused of "fleecing" fans as their pies, Bovril and cheeseburgers have not seen a VAT cut.

THURSDAY 14 MAY

Scotch pie

Football clubs are accused of fleecing fans - by failing to make sure the VAT has been cut on the pies, Bovril and hotdogs sold at their grounds.

High Court in Edinburgh

A 14-year-old schoolboy admits stabbing a fellow teenager in the back in an unprovoked attack in a classroom at an Ayrshire secondary school.

Fatou Felicite Gaye and her son, Arouna

An early morning raid in Glasgow prompts anger, days after moves to improve the treatment of asylum seekers were announced.

WEDNESDAY 13 MAY

Paul Lawrie after winning in 1999

Former Open golf champion Paul Lawrie has been barred from an exclusive club after reportedly criticising the state of the course's greens.

Ravenscraig Primary

A nursery and a primary school in Greenock are to be closed for a week after two children were confirmed as probable swine flu cases.

The submerged car

A 79-year-old driver has told of the moment his car plunged off a pier into the sea during a visit to South Queensferry to view the Forth bridges.

TUESDAY 12 MAY

Melville House

A Palladian mansion in Fife, thought to be the country's most expensive repossessed property, is on the market for £2.5m.

Susan Boyle

American TV bosses subtitled Britain's Got Talent star Susan Boyle when she appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show so viewers could understand her.

Thalidomide

Scientists claim they have finally worked out how and why the drug thalidomide caused limb defects in thousands of babies.

MONDAY 11 MAY

Laura Frey and Darren Greenan

A woman has died and her partner's body is found in a swollen Ayrshire river after they jumped in to rescue their dogs.

Scene of accident on Loch Creran

Two men have died and a third is in hospital after an industrial accident is thought to have suffocated them on a barge on a sea loch near Oban.

Kerelaw residential school

A probe into a school for vulnerable youngsters hit by child abuse allegations is highly critical of how it was managed.



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