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  • Texas ready to rock the Academy
    15 May 2013

    SINGER Sharleen Spiteri will perform before a home crowd when Texas take to the stage at Glasgow's O2 Academy in November to coincide with the release of the band's eighth album.

  • Homes set for £2.1m makeover
    15 May 2013

    HUNDREDS social housing tenants in Inverclyde are benefiting from a £2.1million refurbishment programme on their homes.

  • Good Evans! Lee heads for Hydro
    15 May 2013

    STAND up comedy star Lee Evans is bringing his latest tour to Glasgow.

  • Squat's the way to do it for Maggie's
    15 May 2013

    GLASGOW exercise coach David Thompson spoke of his delight at managing to do 750 'burpees' for charity.

  • High street suffers as sales slump
    15 May 2013

    The high street was hit by a "double whammy of factors" which reduced sales last month, retail leaders have said.

  • Erin joining hunt for the new Face
    15 May 2013

    Model Erin O'Connor is to join Naomi Campbell as a mentor in new TV series The Face, which aims to find a new top beauty.

  • Females 'age more slowly'
    15 May 2013

    Women live longer than men partly because their immune systems age more slowly, a study suggests.

  • Roache bailed on charges
    15 May 2013

    Coronation Street actor Bill Roache has appeared in court accused of raping a 15-year-old girl.

  • Old drivers 'should re-test'
    15 May 2013

    Three in five motorists think older drivers should be forced to retake the driving test when they reach 66, according to a survey.

  • Tia killer jailed for a minimum 38 years
    15 May 2013

    Stuart Hazell has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 38 years after finally admitting the murder of schoolgirl Tia Sharp.

  • Wife's tears over deportation plane death
    15 May 2013

    The wife of an Angolan man who died after being restrained by G4S security guards as he was being deported broke down in tears as she told an inquest her husband "died asking for help".

  • Tories reveal EU question
    15 May 2013

    The Conservatives have unveiled the question which will be posed in a referendum on Britain's future in Europe if David Cameron wins the next election.

  • Apologies to victims as sex gang convicted
    15 May 2013

    Police and social workers have apologised for not protecting vulnerable schoolgirls who were sexually abused and exploited by a paedophile ring.

  • Plea blow for cruise captain
    15 May 2013

    ITALY: The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner that ran aground off Tuscany last year, killing 32 people, has failed in his bid for a plea bargain.

  • Bomb kills 4 U.S. troops
    15 May 2013

    AFGHANISTAN: A roadside bomb has killed four American troops in southern Afghanistan.

  • 'Disguised' CIA agent is told to leave Russia
    15 May 2013

    MOSCOW: Russia expelled a US diplomat after saying he had been caught red-handed with disguises, special equipment and wads of cash as he tried to recruit a Russian intelligence agent to work for the CIA.

  • Dozens die in boat horror
    15 May 2013

    BURMA: Dozens are feared drowned after overcrowded boats trying to escape an approaching cyclone capsized off the coast.

  • Baby sorrow for op woman
    15 May 2013

    TURKEY: Doctors said the first woman to have a successful womb transplant from a dead donor had her pregnancy terminated after the embryo showed no heartbeat.

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