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SUNDAY 11 MAY

'United' Labour suffers bad week
Labour has not had a good week in the wake of the Scottish independence referendum row, a UK Government minister has admitted.

Boy, 5, dies after car hits cow
A five-year-old boy has died after the car he was travelling in hit a cow on a country road and spun out of control.

McConnell 'haunted' by kilt image
Jack McConnell said he has been left haunted by the image of his infamous pinstriped kilt at a New York charity fashion show in 2004.

SATURDAY 10 MAY

Boy, 5, dies after car hits cow
A five-year-old boy has died after the car he was travelling in hit a cow on a country road and spun out of control.

More homes on 'millionaires' row'
Sales of £1m properties in Scotland rose by 138% in 2007, according to research carried out by the Bank of Scotland.

Brown vows to fight UK break up
Gordon Brown has pledged to do "whatever is necessary" to preserve the United Kingdom in the face of demands for Scottish independence.

FRIDAY 9 MAY

Museum is top visitor attraction
Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum was Scotland's busiest visitor attraction last year, according to VisitScotland.

Police bid to tackle Islamophobia
Scotland's first Muslim Police Association is being created in an attempt to encourage more Muslims to join and stay in the force.

Dog shot after killing 50 lambs
A white Alsatian dog has been destroyed after killing almost 50 new-born lambs in a scene described as "carnage".

THURSDAY 8 MAY

Alexander: 'I'm not the problem'
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has claimed that nobody takes Labour seriously as the independence referendum row continued.

Gretna deadline at season's end
Administrators have confirmed Gretna FC will fold at the end of the season if a buyer is not found for the Scottish Premier League club.

OAP hurt in toy dinghy accident
A pensioner was taken to hospital with head injuries after falling out of a toy dinghy into a stretch of water used by commercial ferries.

WEDNESDAY 7 MAY

RAF Nimrod's last moments heard
The families of 14 servicemen who were killed when their RAF Nimrod crashed in Afghanistan have heard a recording of the plane's last moments.

Alexander stands firm in vote row
Wendy Alexander has said she will not quit as Scottish Labour Leader over her call for an early referendum on Scottish independence.

900 jobs go in Goldfish closure
The Goldfish credit card business is to close its customer service centre in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, with the loss of up to 900 jobs.

TUESDAY 6 MAY

Father charged over child murders
A 49-year-old man has appeared in court in Kirkcaldy charged with killing two of his children, aged seven and 25, in his Fife home.

Fraser loses Arlene murder appeal
Elgin man Nat Fraser has lost his appeal against a life jail term for killing his wife Arlene who went missing 10 years ago.

Alexander makes referendum threat
Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander may bring forward a parliamentary bill for a public vote on independence.

MONDAY 5 MAY

'My boys did not deserve to die'
Giselle Ross, the mother of two young boys found dead in a car park has said they "did not deserve to die".

Two boys in car 'were murdered'
Police say they are treating the deaths of two young boys who were found in a parked car near Glasgow as murder.

Man is charged over double murder
A man has been charged with the murders of a 25-year-old woman and her young brother, who were found dead in Fife at the weekend.