14 June 2011 Last updated at 10:03 ET Share this page Ms Spence was last seen on 13 April in the Partick area of Glasgow Police in Glasgow fear that a businesswoman who went missing two months ago may have "come to harm". Lynda Spence, who is also known as Lynda Zejaf, Lynda Palmer or Lynda Reilly, was last seen on 13 April. Det Insp Alan Buchanan, of Strathclyde Police, said the 27-year-old's financial business [...]
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14 June 2011 last updated at 09:29 ET Share this page Nattalie Muir was found fatally injured on Brucefield Drive in Whitburn A 20-year-old woman has admitted stabbing a "devoted" young mother to death in Whitburn, West Lothian. At the High Court in Edinburgh, Emma Merrilees pled guilty to murdering Nattalie Muir, 21, who was found fatally injured in Brucefield Drive. Ms Muir, from Bathgate, who had a two-year-old daughter, died in hospital after the [...]
The arguments over McLeish’s departure look set to continue Birmingham have begun the process of looking for a new manager after appearing to accept that Alex McLeish will leave St Andrew's. The club refused to accept McLeish's resignation on Monday, but acting chairman Peter Pannu is looking ahead. He said: "I am discussing the situation with [owner] Carson Yeung. there are at least six [candidates] on the radar. Aston Villa have been in contact about [...]
14 June 2011 last updated at 04:22 ET Share this page Sales in its UK home market remain in the doldrums, Tesco's latest results show Tesco has reported strong sales growth overseas for the first three months of its financial year, but the UK remains moribund. Group sales were up 7.3% versus a year ago, excluding petrol and ignoring the dampening effect of the stronger pound. The result was driven by international demand – notably [...]
14 June 2011 Last updated at 04:06 ET Share this page Professor Steve Field GP, who led the forum: 'Competition isn't the be all and end all' David Cameron will unveil wholesale changes to the controversial NHS reform bill later after an independent review criticised many of its key proposals. The bill was paused after plans to increase competition and give GPs control of budgets were opposed by NHS staff and many Liberal Democrats. The [...]
13 June 2011 Last updated at 13:31 ET Share this page By Ross Hawkins Political correspondent, BBC News the government said the cap would encourage "responsibility" A Liberal Democrat peer with responsibility for the party's welfare policy has said there must be exceptions to the proposed £26,000 benefits cap to provide "fairness" and "justice". Lord German suggested child benefit could be excluded from the limit. He said: "there must be an exception in order to [...]
13 June 2011 Last updated at 22:32 ET Share this page Jeremy Paxman challenges Pratchett on the issue of assisted suicide. Author Sir Terry Pratchett has defended his BBC TV documentary about assisted suicide, Choosing to Die. In the film shown on Monday, the 63-year-old author – who has Alzheimer's disease – travelled to Switzerland to see a British man dying. Peter Smedley, a 71-year-old hotelier, had motor neurone disease. Liz Carr, a disability campaigner, [...]
13 June 2011 Last updated at 19:16 ET Share this page Inspectors found prisoners locked in their cells and sleeping with their windows covered Inmates at a Kent young offenders' institution (YOI) spend too much time in cells and are sometimes let out for only an hour a day, a report has said. The report on Rochester YOI by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons Nick Hardwick followed an inspection in February. Mr Hardwick said his [...]
13 June 2011 Last updated at 14:27 ET Share this page Paul Priestly has been demoted to the post of deputy secretary SDLP MLA Patsy McGlone has said the demotion of a senior civil servant after a disciplinary hearing is a "totally insufficent sanction". Paul Priestly, who was DRD permanent secretary, was suspended last August when the minister, Conor Murphy, said his position was untenable. Mr Priestly had helped draft a complaint letter to an [...]
13 June 2011 last updated at 07:25 ET Share this page by Jon Kelly BBC News Magazine A host of familiar grocery products are getting smaller while their price stays the same. why? Tough times might be weighing heavily on UK shoppers, but one burden, at least, is becoming lighter: their shopping trolleys. With the cost of getting products onto the shelves rising higher and higher, some suppliers are reducing the size of their wares [...]
