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Blow As Cricketer Deported

A TOP cricket club has seen its title hopes dashed after a star player was deported. Tim Gillespie, an 18year-old pace bowler recruited from Australia, was sent home after attempting to enter the country without a work visa.

Tree Strip Woman Fined

Snp Celebrates a 'Stunning' Poll Win

THE SNP was celebrating today after romping to victory in the Moray by-election. New MSP Richard Lochhead increased his party's majority to 6385 in the Scottish Parliament constituency, with a 1.8-per cent swing from the Tories to the SNP.

College Lecturers to Stage Walkouts Over Job Losses Final Year Students Face Disruption As Staff Vote for a Month of Industrial Action

MORE students face exam misery after college lecturers voted to go on strike over compulsory jobs losses. Staff at James Watt College in Greenock plan to stage two walkouts every week for the next month which will seriously disrupt the course work of final year students.

Bug's Strife at Botanics

We Can't Pay for Drugs to Save Our Lives One-in-3 Scots Struggles to Meet Cost of Breast Cancer Treatment

Blockbuster Summer

A SWASHBUCKLING buccaneer and a superhero are landing on our shores in Hollywood blockbusters this summerand we have exclusive pictures. Johnny Depp is back as hapless buccaneer Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest in July, playing opposite Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swan.

Times Past Danny Kaye, 1949

DANNY KAYE was one of those stars who just couldn't help himself. No matter what the occasion, he never stopped trying to raise a laugh.

Labour's Silent Treatment Over a&E Closures Political Editor Brian Currie's Holyrood Week

THE sight of Labour MSPs sticking their heads above the parapet to fight the anticipated closure of Monklands A&E suggests they've at last realised they have a problem. Local MSPs Karen Whitefield and Elaine Smith have taken their time popping the brave pills - but if former Health Secretary John Reid can take to the picket lines why shouldn't they?

French Connection Is a Good Fit for City

IHAVE just returned from a few days in Marseilles, and I think the city is an ideal candidate for twinning with Glasgow (Evening Times, April 25). They have so much in common. I have travelled extensively in France over the years but I have never seen a city with quite so much litter blowing about its streets. It was just like wading through a midden and reminded me so much of my home city.

Executive has Got It Wrong On Windfarm

THE decision to allow Europe's biggest windfarm to be built on Eaglesham Moor would appear to be a sensible one. Taken at face value it is a bold attempt to tackle the deficiencies in Britain's renewable energies.

More Than Just a Pretty Face

KEIRA Knightley and Angelina Jolie are entitled to their top slots on lists of the world's most beautiful women out this week. Both are stunning, charming and smart.

Sexy, Beautiful and Better Than Keira! Glasgow's Got the World's Best Looking Girls

HERE at the Evening Times, we couldn't believe it when Scottish women were snubbed in two new surveys of the world's most beautiful people. So we took to the streets of Glasgow and within minutes found that this city is awash with women just as sexy and glamorous as superstars Keira Knightley and Angelina Jolie.

Gbp400,000 Nhs Fraudster Appeal Fails Court Rejects Man's Plea Over the 'Safety' of His Convictions

A FRAUDSTER who conned the NHS out of nearly GBP400,000 has failed in an appeal court bid to clear his name. Peter Nicol, 51, of East Kilbride, was jailed for four years at Southwark Crown Court last May after he was convicted of duping hospitals into paying over the odds to lease equipment.

Ford Is Still Game for a Run. Are You?

STILL Game star Ford Kiernan got on his marks for Enable Scotland, to encourage people taking part in the Great Scottish Run to do it for the charity. He was launching the 50:50 campaign in Buchanan Street with the charity, which supports people with learning disabilities.

Cuts in Night Wardens 'Put Oaps Lives at Risk' Families Claim Injured Left Unattended at Sheltered Housing

FRAIL old people's lives are being put at risk after a council cut night wardens at eight sheltered housing complexes, families claim. Today's warning comes after relatives say at least two elderly people fell and were left unattended for hours as no member of staff was on hand to help them.

My Life Sarah Bennett, 25, Marketing Executive, Xfm Scotland

Where do you live? Shawlands, a big step up for a girl from Barrhead.

Seaman's Yarn has Charity Spin-Off

AFORMER submariner has compiled a book of tales from under the sea in aid of the Beatson Oncology Centre in Glasgow. Keith Hall, a part-time author who now works at Faslane navy base's health physics department, already has eight books to his name.

No Business Like Show Business As Apollo Players Celebrate 40 Years of Reaching for the Stars. . . Stage Struck They Launched Careers of Tony Roper and Joe Mcfadden, Now Local Heroes' Latest Production Wows the King's

GLASGOW'S Apollo Players are wowing audiences at the King's Theatre this week. The amateur theatre company are staging musical Fame to kick off their 40th anniversary celebrations. LINDA ROBERTSON gets her dancing shoes on to meet them IT'S the amateur theatre company that puts the professionals to shame. They have performed in front of tens of thousands over the years and helped launch the acting careers of Scots stars Tony Roper and Joe McFadden.

Art Stars of Future Show Work in City

GRADUATES from Glasgow School of Art will show off their work at a degree show. The exhibition will be at the Tramway theatre on the south side from June 15 to 25.

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