Evening Times

Glasgow to Make Cuts Ofgbp35m for Equal Pay

GLASGOW will have to find savings of at least GBP35million to implement equal pay among thousands of council workers. The workers, mainly low paid women, are to be given pay rises and city leader Steven Purcell admits the bill will be GBP45m to GBP50m.

Hacker to Be Extradited

A SCOT accused of the "biggest military hack of all time" will be extradited to the United States. Gary McKinnon, 40, who is originally from Glasgow, faces more than 50 years in prison if convicted in the US of sabotaging vital defence systems.

Museum Spends Gbp30,000 On Its 'Brand' New Image Kelvingrove to Use Letters K and G On All Merchandise

GLASGOW'S bestloved art gallery and museum has been given a GBP30,000 logo to match its new 21st century image. The Kelvingrove symbol is a bold, lime green monogram of the letters K and G, which also illustrates the shape of the historic building, which reopens on Tuesday.

Town Set to Get New Post Office

A NEW post office is to open in a town to replace a branch which closed last month. Wellmeadow in Paisley will get a new service in September, replacing a branch within the Co-op store which shut at the end of last month.

Kettle's Still Boiling After 20 Years. . . Showbiz Children's Favourites Are Back with a New Show

CILLA FISHER has been the voice and face of the Singing Kettle for more than two decades. The legendary children's entertainers are known the world over for their fun, family shows, which appeal to toddlers, older kids and adults - all at the same time. She gets recognised daily in the street, even when she is not dressed up as a Snow Queen, or a milkmaid, or a mermaid, whether in her home town of Kingskettle, Fife, or in Glasgow, where the shows are regularly the city's biggest box office dr...

Pupils Tuck in to Free Meals

CHILDREN are enjoying free meals this summer courtesy of St Luke's High School in Barrhead. Youngsters from less well-off areas of East Renfrewshire will attend a summer school which offers a healthy eating programme and a range of fun activities.

Heritage Day Visit Is a Gas

FAMILIES can learn about industry from another era at a special heritage day. Biggar Gasworks will host the event on Monday, July 17.

Pay Our Bill . . . Or Bulldozers Will Blockade Your New Store Developers Threaten Tesco Over Row at Gbp50

RETAIL giant Tesco was threatened with a blockade of bulldozers just days before it was due to open Scotland's biggest supermarket. Developers were furious bosses had not settled their bill for buying the site before it planned to open its petrol station at the GBP50million store in Glasgow's Pollok.

Books Cook Up a Real Winner for Tv's Jamie

EXCITED pupils met celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, above, when their schools won a cooking prize. Scott Hughes from Newmains Primary, Renfrew, and David Aitchinson from St Vincent's, Tollcross, met the TV star because their schools were Scottish winners in the Active Kids Get Cooking Challenge.

Kids Can Be Kings of This Castle

CROOKSTON Castle in Glasgow is the venue for storytelling tours and picnics this summer. People can hear tales about Crookston and the area, as told by members of the Village Storytelling Centre. The tour covers a mysterious garden and a moving church.

Experts to Reveal Designs for New Community Green

WACKY ideas such as a village green which can be rolled up and packed away are to go on show tomorrow. Entries to a contest to design a community green for Pollokshields will be displayed in The Radius Shop in Shields Road.

Power Hq Blacked Out

ENGINEERS from ScottishPower were today called out to tackle a major black-out . . . at their own headquarters in Glasgow. Hundreds of workers at the sprawling complex in Cathcart were left without power following a fault at anon-site sub-station, which triggered security alarms shortly before 8am.

Preparing for the Worst Is a Prudent Move

A YEAR ago today terrorists exposed the vulnerability of Britain to a determined foe. The horrors of 7/7, like those of the Madrid bombings and September 11 before it, demonstrated that modern cities are frontline targets for extremists.

Time to Get Tough On Hospital Thugs

EVERY day in every hospital in Glasgow staff deal with the victims of violence. However, many of these workers become casualties themselves when they are attacked on wards.

Will the Auld Alliance Hold Firm or Do We Cheer Italia?

ALLEZ les bleus! Forza Azzurri! The chants might translate to the same thing, but both will mean very different things on Sunday. After arguably the most unpredictable World Cup in years, two princes of European football have made it through to the final of the world's greatest sports tournament.

Tennis Star Andy Murray If I Ruled the World

ANDY MURRAY, 19, was born in Dunblane. He has been playing tennis since he was three years old, but switched to football at the age of nine. By the time he was 12, he rediscovered his love of tennis, and went on to win the 2003 Canadian Open Junior Singles and the ITA Futures Tournament in Glasgow. In 2005, he won a wildcard entry to Wimbledon, and has since gone on to play extensively on the ATP tour. He is currently ranked number one in the UK, and 45 in the world.

Litter Louts Are Destroying Our Beauty Spots

TOURING Scotland on a motoring holiday recently I was shocked and dismayed to find that many beauty spots and picnic areas were in a terrible state due to vandalism and litter. The problem seemed particularly bad within Scotland's first National Park - the Loch Lomond and Trossachs area - where picnic sites were being used as rubbish tips, with discarded tyres, building waste, scrap car parts and even old fridges and cookers lying about, and many of the benches had been vandalised.

Times Past : Glasgow Green, 1964

YOU can't beat summer for a good "dryin' day" and back in 1964 these two mums from Bridgeton took advantage of the sunshine to sit and have a blether. Glaswegians have always enjoyed laundry rights on Glasgow Green, with many tenement families making good use of the drying greens.

Picture Brief

Bolt from the blue . . . motorists get a fright as lightning strikes the east tower of the Arthur Ravenel Bridge during a thunderstorm which was heading towards Mt Pleasant from Charleston in South Carolina Wheel make it, kid . . . . Gary Pearson, right, helps Gibby HuizengaRayos, 8, manoeuvre his wheelchair through an obstacle course during the National Veteran Wheelchair Games kids' day in Anchorage, Alaska

Dental Expert Who Led Fight to Add Fluoride to Water Dies

THE man who led Glasgow's controversial bid to add fluoride to drinking water has died. Dr Bob McKechnie died suddenly just over a week ago while on holiday at Lake Annecy in France.