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Saturday, 22 March 2008, 09:13 GMT

What the Scottish papers say

Racist taunts could drive a talented schoolboy footballer out of the game, according to the Daily Record.

The dad of movie star James McAvoy has admitted smuggling drugs into jail for the actor's brother, reports the Scottish Sun.

The Herald says that thousands of crimes including housebreaking, car theft and vandalism are to be investigated by specially trained civilian staff under a radical new scheme being piloted in a Scottish town.

The scale of disruption to rail passengers travelling between Scotland and England is set to reach unprecedented levels, with engineering work now planned on the west coast main line on almost every weekend for the rest of the year, The Scotsman reveals.

The Press and Journal and The Times describe how the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland has urged Catholic ministers to quit Gordon Brown's cabinet rather than support "monstrous" legislation on embryo research.

The Courier claims that one of Scotland's top hotels has been named as the possible source of a killer case of legionnaires' disease.

BBC presenter Jeremy Paxman has sparked another cross Border row by claiming England could not care less if Scotland became independent, says the Scottish Daily Express.

The Scottish Daily Mail reports how a woman of 57 with suspected ovarian cancer was in fact expecting a baby.



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