JANUARY

2/3: Around 200,000 rail passengers travelling between Scotland and London faced disruption on the West Coast main line, caused by delayed cabling works. Network Rail was later fined a record £14million.

4: Football stars joined family mourners and ordinary fans at Phil O'Donnell's funeral. The popular Motherwell captain had collapsed at Fir Park on December 29.

4: Children's television TV presenter Mark Speight was arrested after his fiancee Natasha Collins was found dead in a bath at their home. No charges were brought against him and he was found hanged in April.

7: A 23-year-old man who raped a teenage mum in the grounds of Stobhill Hospital was jailed for more than six years.

10: The crime-ridden Parkview homeless hostel on the South Sides faces closure after a long-awaited court ruling.

12: Up to 3000 people a week were being struck by a winter vomiting bug sweeping west Scotland.

15: A giant support cable snapped, putting Glasgow's £20m Squinty Bridge out of action for weeks.

16: Heart transplants resumed at Glasgow Royal Infirmary after a probe into post-operative deaths gave the hospital the all-clear.

17: A city primary school was at the centre of a TB alert, with some 350 pupils being tested for the potentially deadly disease after a teacher fell ill.

17: A BA Boeing 777 jet crash-landed at Heathrow. The impact wrecked the undercarriage and damaged both wings.

18: One million Scottish Gas customers were hit with a 15% rise in gas and electricity prices.

21: The tragic Flying Phantom tug, in which three crewmen lost their lives off Clydebank in December, was raised from the bed of the Clyde.

22: Strathclyde's new Chief Constable Steve House answered Evening Times readers' questions on crime in the wake of our in-depth Crime On Your Street series.

22: Actor Heath Ledger, above, died aged 28, from an accidental drugs overdose.

23: More than 500 furious protesters tried to halt plans for an adventure playground, Go Ape, claiming it would "desecrate" Pollok Park.

24: The regeneration of the East End through the Clyde Gateway project and the 2014 Games would create at least 10,000 jobs for the people who live there, it was claimed.

25: The Squinty Bridge could be shut for up to six months after the discovery of a crack in a second support cable.

28: Relatives of three of the heroes of the Glasgow Airport terror attack accused the Prime Minister of failing to recognise the men's bravery.

28: Five men were convicted at the Old Bailey of being part of Britain's biggest cash robbery - the £53m Securitas depot heist in February 2006.

29: A major investigation was launched after a haul of guns - including pistols and rifles - was found in a Glasgow East End primary school gym hall.

30: Tributes were paid to TV prankster Jeremy Beadle, above, who died after a short battle with pneumonia.

FEB 29: Prince Harry is revealed to be in Afghanistan - and is brought home after the news broke	MARCH 14: Schoolgirl Shannon Matthews is found safe and well after being missing for 24 days	MARCH 28: Go Ape gets the go-ahead in Pollok Park despite objections	MARCH 17: Heather Mills wins £24.3m in her divorce battle with Paul McCartney	JAN 4: Thousands of Motherwell fans pay tribute to Phill O'Donnell

FEBRUARY

4: Hundreds of businesses were facing court action after being targeted in Glasgow's litter crackdown.

4: Angry GPs hit out at plans that would force them to open their surgeries at evenings and weekends.

4: The government's hopes of a bidding war for troubled mortgage bank Northern Rock suffered a blow after a key potential buyer quit, leaving just two other bids on the table.

5: The Evening Times began a major investigation into the work of city housing factors.

6: The Big Build Appeal, backed by the Evening Times, to raise money for a new Marie Curie Hospice in Glasgow, passed the £2m mark 6: Thousands of Glasgow pupils faced walking almost three miles to school after their free buses were axed in the city's budget cuts.

6: First Minister Alex Salmond threatened to quit and seek fresh Holyrood elections if he did not win a knife-edge vote on the SNP government's Budget. The Budget was passed.

7: Homeowners got a boost after the Bank of England cut interest rates to 5.25%.

11: Three teenage thugs were caged for at least 44 years for the brutal murder of Garry New-love, who had confronted them about vandalism outside his Cheshire home.

11: It was announced that blunders by medical staff cost Glasgow's health board a record £5.4m last year, as negligence payments to patients more than trebled 12: Talks on aircraft carrier contracts for Clyde yards were at a "very advanced stage", Defence Secretary Des Browne said.

12: Every Scots council pledged to stop putting their homeless people in the controversial Parkview Hotel.

13: Mourners said an emotional final farewell to a tragic toddler, who was hanged by a blind cord the previous week in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire .

14: The missing link of the M74 was finally given the green light by the Scottish Government. Work on the £445m project was expected to begin in May.

14: Unemployment in Scotland fell to its lowest level for more than 33 years.

14: In Illinois, a black-clad gunman killed six students before committing suicide in a shooting spree at a university.

16: Scotland was to fight for £150m Lottery cash to fund the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

18: Work began on a £300m programme which would transform housing all across Glasgow.

18: The UK government nationalised crisis-hit Northern Rock.

19: Glasgow's new superhospital at the Southern General will cost the taxpayer £842m.

20: The Red Road flats will have to be demolished brick by brick over seven years, it was revealed.

21: Ex-Rangers star Paul Gascoigne was detained under the Mental Health Act.

21: Ipswich serial killer Steve Wright was jailed for life after being found guilty of the murder of five prostitutes.

22: Scots actress Haley Flaherty, 27, spoke about her starring role on stage in Mamma Mia!, the world's biggest grossing musical.

22: At the Old Bailey, sex-obsessed Mark Dixie was found guilty of murdering teenage model Sally Anne Bowman.

25: Customers and staff had to be evacuated as a blaze ripped through some of Glasgow's best-known entertainment venues, in Ashton Lane.

25: Two men went on trial accused of the Lambhill garage murder in December 2006.

27: Scots-based actress Tilda Swinton, above, won an Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in the George Clooney film, Michael Clayton 29: Prince Harry had to be pulled out of Afghanistan immediately, after the collapse of a news blackout deal.

MARCH

1: Work started on HMS Duncan, the last warship on the Govan and Scotstoun shipyards' order books.

1: Thieves stole the bank details of 700 families in a break-in at the private Glasgow High School in the West End.

3: A bodyguard to the former premier of Pakistan was jailed for eight years for raping a vulnerable 21-year-old woman in Glasgow.

4: More than 100 CCTV cameras were to be installed at Scots railway stations in a major security drive.

4: Evil Glaswegian nurse Colin Norris was jailed for at least 30 years at Newcastle Crown Court for murdering four frail patients with insulin overdoses.

5: More than 80 Celtic fans were stranded in France after blizzards halted their journey home from their team's Champions League defeat in Barcelona.

5: Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the national minimum wage would increase by 21p an hour to £5.73 from October, boosting a million low-paid workers.

10: A sex fiend who put a 63-year-old woman through a terrifying ordeal was jailed for 12 years at the High Court in Glasgow.

10: Former world boxing champion Scott Harrison, below, was ordered to carry out 200 hours' community service for his role in a drink-fuelled bar-room disturbance.

12: Thousands of foreign tourists rated Glasgow as the friendliest city in the UK, it emerged.

12: Chancellor Alistair Darling put the boot into booze, gas guzzlers and smokers in his first Budget.

13: Canoeist John Darwin, right, admitted deception after apparently "coming back from the dead" in an insurance scam.

13: Hundreds of people were set to plant flags in the Botanic Gardens in protest against Stefan King's nightclub plan there.

14: Crime-ridden Paddy's Market could be shut down within just a few months, the Evening Times revealed.

14: Shannon Matthews, the nine-year-old West Yorkshire girl missing for 24 days, was found safe and well.

17: Heather Mills McCartney was awarded £24.3m in her bitter divorce from Sir Paul.

18: More than 2000 Northern Rock staff faced losing their jobs amid restructuring plans.

18: Two boy racers were jailed for a total of 18 years following a horrific seven-vehicle crash on the A75 Gretna to Stranraer road that left three people dead.

18: Oscar-winning film director Anthony Minghella dies, aged 54.

18: Sci-fi author Sir Arthur C Clarke died, aged 90.

19: The parents of Madeleine McCann accepted £550,000 libel damages over false allegations that they were responsible for their daughter's death.

19: The first images of Glasgow's £98m National Indoor Sports Arena were released.

21: Retired Glasgow detective Sam Wilson was cleared of assaulting yobs who rampaged through his garden.

25: Teenage killer Stephen Price was jailed for at least 15 years for a brutal murder. He stabbed his victim 80 times in a Paisley flat.

25: The controversial Go Ape adventure course in Pollok Park got the green light despite nearly 900 objections.

27: A Pollokshields father who shook his seven-month-old daughter to death was jailed for six years.

APRIL

1: Police marksmen were brought in to end motorway mayhem sparked by a herd of runaway cows on the M73 near Baillieston.

2: Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline announced plans to axe 270 jobs at its manufacturing plant in Irvine.

2: Police arrested Shannon Matthews' stepfather on suspicion of possessing child porn.

3: More express trains began running between Glasgow and Edinburgh after First ScotRail won a £70million franchise extension.

5: The mother and sister of Shannon Matthews' stepfather were arrested over the nine-year-old's disappearance.

5: Oscar-winning actor Charlton Heston died, aged 84.

5: Crime-ridden Parkview Hostel is to be shut down and turned into luxury flats.

8: Fears grew for children's TV presenter Mark Speight, who went missing after an inquest into the death of his fiancee, Natasha Collins. His body was later found at London's Paddington station.

9: Strathclyde Police will put more cops on the streets by recruiting up to 750 officers.

9: Rose Gentle, whose soldier son Gordon, 19, died in Iraq, was "bitterly disappointed" after Britain's highest court rejected her call for an inquiry into the legality of the Iraq war.

12: Musicians and punters blasted Lauders Bar in Sauchiehall Street after it ditched its iconic big band after more than 20 years in order to squeeze in more diners.

12: Sabeel Ahmed, 26, brother of the Glasgow Airport bomber who later died, walked free from court after pleading guilty to charges connected to the airport terror attack.

16: Taxi passengers in Glasgow will be the first in Scotland to pay using chip-and-pin.

17: Plans for a £7m nightclub in the Botanic Gardens were scrapped - city council chiefs vetoed Stefan King's proposals after hundreds of objections.

21: First Minister Alex Salmond urged drivers not to panic-buy fuel as a 48-hour strike by up to 1200 refinery workers loomed.

24: Under-18s will be banned from tanning parlours in Scotland under new laws due to be passed in June.

24: Scots GPs voted against taking industrial action, but blasted the UK and Scottish Governments for their treatment of GPs.

28: Transport bosses are spending £8m to transform Subway travel in Glasgow.

28: Almost 20m gallons of fuel were being shipped to Scotland from Europe as strikers continued to picket the Grangemouth oil refinery.

MAY

1: Rangers secure a place in the Uefa Cup final, their first Euro final in 36 years, with a penalty shoot-out win over Fiorentina.

2: Gangland gunmen James McDonald and Raymond Anderson were both jailed for 35 years for killing Michael Lyons in Glasgow's Lambhill in December 2006.

3: Detectives began a murder hunt after the bodies of two young brothers were found in a car parked in the Campsie Fells.

7: A woman was stabbed by a beggar in a Glasgow street - because she only gave him 50p.

7: Barclaycard sparked angry reactions with plans to axe its Goldfish credit card centre in Cumbernauld and transfer the work to England.

8: Ayrshire-born violinist Nicola Benedetti scooped Best Young British Classical Performer at the Classical Brit Awards in London.

8: Three women were taken to hospital after a car ploughed into a packed Glasgow city centre bakery.

10: A High Street bank could take over the axed Goldfish call centre in Cumbernauld, it emerged.

14: Rangers lose the Uefa Cup final 2-0. Afterwards, some 200 bottle-hurling yobs clash with baton-wielding Manchester police.

15: Celtic legend Tommy Burns loses his battle with cancer.

16: Killer Luke Mitchell loses his appeal over the murder of his 14-year-old girlfriend Jodi Jones.

19: Spy kids working for the police nailed their first rogue off-sales boss in Glasgow - the store lost its licence to sell alcohol for three months.

20: Thousands of people paid an emotional final tribute to Tommy Burns, both outside Celtic Park and at the requiem mass at St Mary's, in Calton.

22: Celtic snatch their third successive SPL title with a win at Dundee United: Rangers falter, losing at Aberdeen.

22: Tragic brothers Paul, 6, and Jay, 2, Ross, found dead in a car in the Campsie Fells, are laid to rest in a single white coffin.

24: Rangers win the Scottish Cup, beating Queen of the South at Hampden.

27: Glasgow is revealed as Scotland's worst area for recycling household waste.

29: Fiona Brown, sister of Celtic star Scott, dies of cancer at the age of 21.

29: The body of a woman is found in Queen's Park, on the South Side. Police seal off the park and forensic experts are brought in. The victim is later named as Moira Jones, 40.

30: A woman was found dead at the Di Maggio restaurant in Ruthven Lane. She is later named as Eleni Pachou, 25.

JUNE

3: The hunt intensifies for the killers of the two women, as senior officers seek to reassure the public. Detectives want to track down the person who phoned Eleni Pachou's mobile before she was stabbed.

4: More than 1600 people were quizzed by police in the search for Moira Jones' killer.

5: Neil Diamond sparkles on a soggy night at Hampden.

6: An escaped killer was arrested on a dawn swoop on a farm near Glasgow after a six-hour stand-off with armed police.

8: The UK's biggest Race for Life, a Cancer Research event, brings the city centre to a standstill as 13,000 women pound the streets.

9: Rogue bus firms could be banned from the city's busiest routes in a new crackdown.

9: Vivienne Westwood is revealed as the latest addition to the Princes Square mall.

9: A man and a woman appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court to face charges of conspiring to murder Eleni Pachou.

10: More than 800 jobs were saved when Scottish and Southern Energy took over the doomed Goldfish centre in Cumbernauld.

11: Quadruplets born to Glasgow couple Naweed and Fizza Baig after their last attempt at IVF celebrated their first birthday.

16: A pickpocket gang has robbed more than 50 people in Glasgow city centre, police warned tourists and elderly shoppers to be alert.

17: The government's consumer watchdog launched a probe into property factors, thanks to a hard-hitting Evening Times campaign.

18: More than 3000 people arrested in a year at one un-named city police station were under the influence of drink or drugs, new figures show.

19: Extradition proceedings began after a man was arrested in Slovakia in connection with the death of Moira Jones.

19: Two female bar-workers in Glasgow contracted TB.

21: US rockers Bon Jovi enthral 40,000 rock fans at Hampden.

23: Glasgow's successful Mr Happy campaign marks its 25th anniversary.

24: The cost of the M74 missing link' has soared by another £35m to £692m.

24: Coatbridge's comic-book writer Mark Millar hosts a sneak preview of the film Wanted, starring Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy, at the British premiere in Glasgow.

26: The controversial Tesco Town' development of flats planned for Glasgow is poised to be dealt a fatal blow after the store was outbid for a vital piece of land.

27: Cops targeted 100 violent thugs as they launched a series of dawn raids across Renfrewshire.

29: Firefighters were attacked by thugs as they battled a blaze at a disused school in Blackhill, Glasgow.

30: Rail bosses are to put up 250 CCTV cameras in Glasgow's Central Station.

JULY

2: A survivor of the Maryhill ICL death blast told the first day of the public inquiry that he thought a plane had hit the building.

3: Glasgow Science Centre is to axe more than a fifth of its workforce after its funding was controversially slashed, the Evening Times revealed.

4: The SNP chooses John Mason, opposition leader at Glasgow City Council, to contest the Glasgow East by-election on July 24.

6: The Glasgow Clipper crew reached Liverpool, finishing third in a 10-yacht, 10-month round-the-world race.

8: The Crown Office confirmed there would be no further proceedings against four men accused of murdering Glasgow prostitute Emma Caldwell, but said they could not rule out a development in the future.

9: A woman was killed after plunging 80ft in a lift shaft in a block of flats at Wyndford, Maryhill.

11: Scotland is to get a £180million fleet of new hi-tech trains - and most will operate in and out of Glasgow, the Evening Times revealed.

11: A drink-driver, a 23-year-old lap dancer, who killed a Glasgow woman when she ploughed into her car while using a mobile phone on the M61 in Lancashire was jailed for six years.

14: Security at T in the Park, Scotland's biggest music festival, will be reviewed after a man was stabbed 11 times at the latest festival weekend.

16: Chancellor Alistair Darling scrapped the 2p a litre fuel duty increase planned for October.

18: Former accountant David Lilburn, who stabbed his wife 86 times in a frenzied knife attack, was found guilty of murder at the High Court in Glasgow.

18: Tesco won its battle to build a huge development in Glasgow's West End, stunning campaigners who had opposed the plan.

21: Europe's largest onshore windfarm, the £600million Clyde project near Abington in South Lanarkshire, was given the go-ahead by Scottish ministers.

23: The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin was convicted of a "vital" role in their £250,000 fraud.

24: A Clarkston GP was suspended from practising medicine for six months. He had been found guilty of professional misconduct after he prescribed sleeping pills to a suicidal elderly patient.

25: Labour was stunned when the SNP's John Mason swept to a sensational victory in the Glasgow East by-election after a dramatic recount.

27: Bob Crampsey, who for years wrote the Evening Times' Now You Know sports column, dies, aged 78.

28: Police hailed a pilot project which has seen a huge drop in Glasgow knife crime.

30: The BBC received a record £400,000 fine for misleading audiences and faking competition winners. Flagship shows such as Comic Relief and Children in Need were involved.

AUGUST

1: Hundreds of mourners packed a Glasgow church to say a final farewell to Bob Crampsey.

1: Barry George was cleared at the Old Bailey of the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando.

4: Irresponsible dog owners who fail to clean up after their pets could be hit with an Asbo, Glasgow City Council warns.

5: Tens of thousands of Glasgow pupils were celebrating as the city chalked up its best-ever set of exam results.

6: Convicted killer William Gage, jailed for life for murdering Glasgow drug dealer Justin McAlroy, launches another appeal.

7: The Evening Times made headlines around Britain with its exclusive on Glasgow councillor Jahangir Hanif, who was pictured firing a Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle at a military camp in Pakistan.

7: Samurai swords and machetes were among the near-3000 weapons seized by Strathclyde Police in the last six months.

8: Human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar was cleared of contempt in respect of a statement he had made after his client, Mohammed Atif Siddique, had been found guilty of terrorism charges in 2007.

8: Calls were growing for "Councillor Kalashnikov" Jahangir Hanif to quit.

10: Musician and actor Isaac Hayes dies, aged 65.

10: Cyclist Nicola Cooke wins Team GB's first gold at the Beijing Olympics.

11: In Beijing, Rebecca Adlington becomes the first British woman swimmer in 48 years to win an Olympic gold.

11: A nine-year-old boy was shot in the eye with an airgun in a Bridgeton street.

12: Scot David Florence takes a slalom canoe silver in Beijing.

13: Swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the most successful Olympian of all time with his 10th and 11th gold medals of his career.

14: An £83million drive has been unveiled to transform housing across Glasgow. More than 1300 houses will be built.

15: Legendary record producer Jerry Wexler dies, aged 91.

15: Scotland's Chris Hoy landed the cycling team sprint gold in Beijing at the expense of France.

15: Torrential rain led to heavy flooding in parts of Scotland, including Lanarkshire.

16: Chris Hoy wins his second gold in Beijing, in the keirin event.

19: Hoy writes his name in the record books as he secured a historic third cycling gold.

21: Ex-Celtic manager Liam Brady, 52, was rushed to hospital in Dublin after falling ill.

21: A task force will lead a £2m action plan to end the slum housing misery for families in Govanhill.

21: A drunk driver who was caught after her daughter banged on the car window and shouted "stop mummy driving" was jailed for 80 days.

22: Paedophile Gary Glitter arrives at Heathrow from Bangkok.

23: Scots war hero Hugh McIver, from Renfrewshire, was honoured by a French village - 90 years after his death.

26: Scottish Coal was fined £400,000 for safety failings that led to the deaths of two men at an Ayrshire open-cast mine.

28: Transatlantic budget carrier Zoom Airlines, owned by Scottish travel entrepreneurs John and Hugh Boyle, suspends its operations.

31: Jamie Dolan, ex-Motherwell and Dundee United favourite, dies of a heart attack, aged 39, while jogging.

SEPTEMBER

1: Celtic coach Neil Lennon is attacked by thugs in a West End street, just hours after his team is beaten in an Old Firm clash.

2: Car-parking charges at all non-Private Finance Initiative hospitals are to be abolished from January 1.

2: Former world boxing champion Scott Harrison is jailed for two months for beating his girlfriend.

2: Hurricane Gustav, billed by the New Orleans mayor as "the storm of the century", descends on the city - but its vital levees hold.

3: British tourists have been warned to avoid all but essential travel to Thailand after Bangkok's worst violence in 16 years leaves one person dead and more than 40 injured.

3: The controversial Go Ape plan for Pollok Park gets the final go-ahead - but protesters later promise to take legal action.

5: The fireworks display on Glasgow Green scheduled for November 5 is put back by 24 hours to cope with the Celtic-Manchester United Euro clash, on the night of the fifth.

6: Scotland is in a better shape to come through an economic slowdown than it has been in the past, predicts Richard Lambert, CBI director-general.

6: George Burley's Scotland lose 1-0 in Macedonia in their opening World Cup qualifying tie.

6-7: Some 19,000 people pour through the streets of Glasgow in the annual Great Scottish Run, Junior 3k and 10k events.

7: Glasgow cyclist Aileen McGlynn defends her gold medal at the Beijing Paralympics and breaks her own world record in the process. She later cycles to a second gold.

8: Andy Murray is in stunning form to beat world No1 Rafael Nadal to reach the US Open final - his first Grand Slam final - against Roger Federer. Federer, however, wins in straight sets.

10: Up to 20,000 Scots tourists have been hit after budget package holiday firm Seguro Holidays stops trading.

10: Scotland win 2-1 away to Iceland.

10: Bob Gray, former Lord Pro- vost of Glasgow, dies, aged 80.

13: Britain's third-largest tour operator, XL Leisure, becomes the latest victim of the credit crunch, stranding thousands of holidaymakers around the world.

15: Billions of pounds are wiped off the value of shares as turmoil grips the world's financial markets following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the fourth-largest investment bank in America.

15: Rick Wright, founder member of the Pink Floyd rock group, dies of cancer, aged 65.

16: Friends pay tribute to Glasgow climber Simon Triger who froze to death on Mont Blanc, western Europe's highest mountain.

16: Scottish giants HBOS and Royal Bank of Scotland are at the forefront of another battering meted out to Britain's banks.

17: Thousands of Scots jobs are in the balance as Halifax Bank of Scotland put the finishing touches to a survival deal with the Lloyds TSB group to create a £30bn banking giant.

20: Scotland's prisons boss says our jails are in a state of "emergency" because of overcrowding.

21: US golfers reclaim the Ryder Cup from its European holders.

23: A Finnish gunman kills 10 people at his college before shooting himself.

25: Hollywood legend Paul Newman dies, aged 83.

OCTOBER

1: A rapist was locked up for life after attacking a girl of 16 while he was on the run from prison.

1: Glasgow's museums boss, Martin O'Neill, attacks elitist' critics of Kelvingrove.

2: The Glasgow Airport terror trial gets under way in London.

3: Robert Thomson, who murdered his disabled daughter and young son in their bedrooms in Leven, Fife, is jailed for life.

5: The QE2, at Greenock, bids farewell to the Clyde before she sails for a new life in cash-rich Dubai.

6: A massive 15,000 tyres were found dumped at two East End sites, said the Clean Glasgow team.

6: A man was killed in a drive-by shooting at a bar in Cambridge Street, Glasgow.

8: The Bank of England slashed interest rates by 0.5% as the government announced a £50bn bank emergency rescue plan.

9: Two doctors who plotted the bomb attacks in Glasgow and London aimed to leave people gripped by fear, the trial hears.

10: Former Rangers player Willie Johnston has been told his lifelong ban, imposed after the 1967 World Cup, could finally be lifted by the SFA.

10: People power has rejected plans for more parking charges in the West End and South Side.

11: Scotland draw 0-0 with Norway at Hampden.

13: Violent crime is soaring at Glasgow's Central Station and a third of offenders are escaping.

13: The Royal Bank of Scotland, and Lloyds TSB are thrown a £37m government lifeline.

13: Scotland boss George Burley blasts Kris Boyd for his decision to quit international football.

14: The world-famous Jumeirah Group unveils a six-star, £125m hotel for Glasgow city centre.

15: Glasgow is named as one of the world's top 10 cities by the Lonely Planet guide.

16: A family from hell is evicted from their Balornock home after two years of torment.

16: Chris Hoy is among the Olympic heroes feted at a victory parade through London.

17: A masked gunman held up a security guard as he delivered cash to a South Side bank - and fled with a five-figure sum.

17: An Iraq war hero who shot dead an Orkney waiter 14 years ago was jailed for life at the High Court in Glasgow.

17: An Evening Times probe exposes the hundreds of pedestrians who cross roads without using the Green Man.

21: The first phase of Glasgow Airport's £31m extension opens its doors.

21: Celtic crash 3-0 to Manchester United at Old Trafford.

22: Mohamed al Fayed was reported to have been quizzed by police in connection with an alleged sexual assault of a girl under 16.

22: A new jail is to be built in to replace Greenock Prison.

22: David Miller, an English teacher at St Ninian's High, Kirkintilloch, is named as the UK's top secondary teacher.

23: Network Rail was blamed for a series of failings that caused the Cumbria train crash in February 2007, in which a Glasgow pensioner died.

23: Slater Menswear won the Evening Times award for favourite business, at the Glasgow Business Awards.

27: The BBC comes under fire after presenters Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross make crude phone calls to ex-Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs.

28: Glasgow Airport unveiled its £12m security search area.

29: Russell Brand quits his BBC radio show over the prank calls, and Ross is suspended for 12 weeks without pay.

NOVEMBER

2: Jordan Mount, 8, from Rutherglen, who suffers from the rare and incurable Hurler's Syndrome, is named as Best Brave Child by a sick kids charity.

3: Tycoon Donald Trump's plans for a £1bn golf resort were given the go ahead by the Scottish Government.

4: Thieves fled empty-handed after using a forklift truck to smash an ATM out of a brick wall in Cleland, Lanarkshire.

4: Jeremy Clarkson sparks BBC complaints with a quip about lorry drivers and prostitutes.

4: Barack Obama beats John McCain to decide who would succeed George W Bush in the White House.

5: The Evening Times was with Strathclyde fire crews as they came under fire from yobs during Bonfire Night call-outs.

6: Interest rates were slashed by 1.5%, the biggest single cut in 27 years.

7: Labour's comfortable victory in the Glenrothes by-election came as a huge relief to premier Gordon Brown.

7: A 10-screen cinema multiplex will be a key part of the £300m Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow.

10: Police are hunting the hit-and-run driver who knocked down Glasgow girl Brittany Forbes, 10.

11: The QE2 runs aground off the Isle of Wight.

11: Two men were found guilty of being involved in the horrific death of a London toddler known as Baby P'.

11: Former Rangers star Craig Moore has cancer surgery.

12: Model Nicola McLean, Esther Rantzen and Simon Webbe are among the latest hopefuls for I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!

13: A man was shot in his car as he sat at his Hamilton home.

14: Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, who is terminally ill, failed in his bid to be released on bail pending his appeal.

16: More than 17,500 revellers crowded into George Square to witness the switch-on of the Christmas lights.

17: A ceremony recognises East End achievements as the first Evening Times Community Champion awards are presented.

18: Transport police stage a four-hour stop-and-search at Central Station amid concerns about rising crime levels there.

19: John Sergeant unexpectedly quits Strictly Come Dancing despite receiving public support.

19: Scotland lose 1-0 to Diego Maradona's Argentina in a Hampden friendly.

21: Madonna's marriage to Guy Ritchie ends at a registry office in London.

21: Glasgow is planning a spectacular light-show in January to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns.

21: Chris Hoy is Glasgow's Sportsperson of the Year.

24: Chancellor Alistair Darling's cuts VAT to 15%.

25: Celtic are beaten by Aalborg and put out of Europe.

26: Woolworths and MFI go into administration, putting thousands of jobs at risk.

27: Glasgow City Council will shed almost 400 jobs over the next two years.

27: Gunmen run amok in Mumbai, India, killing an estimated 179 people.

DECEMBER

1: Two leaders of Haringey Council in London resigned over the Baby P scandal.

1: Teen Amy Innes who was hit by a car in Glasgow came round after a month in a coma.

2: Plans for a 410ft wind turbine on Cathkin Braes in Glasgow are approved.

2: Man Utd's Cristiano Ronaldo was named European Footballer of the Year.

3: Peter Tobin, 62, jailed for a minimum of 30 years for the murder of Falkirk 17-year-old Vicky Hamilton. Her father shouted "rot in hell" at him.

4: Shannon Matthews mother was found guilty of kidnapping her nine-year-old daughter.

5: A 17-strong syndicate at the BT Broomielaw call centre won more than £1million - about £64,000 each - on the midweek Lottery.

5: Boy George convicted of falsely imprisoning a male escort.

8: Loyalist killer Michael Stone jailed for 16 years for trying to kill Sinn Fein leaders.

9: Marek Harcar, 33, is in court charged with murdering Moira Jones, whose body was found in Glasgow's Queen's Park.

10: Take That fans snap up 50,000 tickets in two hours for the group's Hampden gig.

10: Hundreds of tenants vote to break away from Glasgow Housing Association.

10: Celtic beat Villarreal 2-0.

11: Plans for a £300million hotel in Broomielaw scrapped because of credit crunch.

12: Marion Hinshelwood, 43, pleads guilty to murdering Eleni Pachou at Di Maggio's in Ruthven Lane, Glasgow, in May.

12: Glasgow SNP councillor Colin Deans defects to Labour.

13: Aiden McGeady and Gordon Strachan have bust-up.

14: Chris Hoy voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

16: Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla found guilty of Glasgow Airport terror attacks and given two life terms. Mohammed Asha is acquitted.

17. Celtic suspend Aiden McGeady for two weeks.

18: Glasgow's Quality Central Hotel forced to close 56 rooms after discovery of asbestos.

19: Police seal off the centre of Bothwell after the town's Bank of Scotland was raided.

21: A minute's silence to mark the 20th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing killings.

22: Ex-Rangers star Craig Moore given cancer all-clear.

22: X Factor winner Alexandra Burke gets Christmas no.1 spot.

22: An explosion destroys 11 cars in a Kilmarnock car park.

24: Zavvi goes in to administration, leaving almost 3500 staff fearing for their jobs.

25: Singer Eartha Kitt dies from colon cancer aged 81.

26: Glasgow bargain hunters flock to pre-dawn Boxing Day sales despite credit crunch.

26: Nurse Magdeline Makola found in the boot of her car in Airdrie after being missing for 11 days.

27: Celtic beat Rangers 1-0 in Old Firm clash.

29: Liverpool star Steven Gerrard arrested after a brawl at Southport nigthclub.

29: Firefighters rescue 14 people after fire ripped through a block of flats in Greenock.

29: Justice Ngema, 35, is charged with attempting to murder Magdeline Makola.

30: Football referee Craig Thomson takes step to become Scotland's first full-time ref.

31: Olympic champ Chris Hoy is knighted in Honour's List.