Hot on the heels of three Trident Ploughshares Weapons Detectives getting into a US Air Force plane on Monday, another team, also searching for evidence of War Crimes, got into another US military plane at Prestwick in the early hours of this morning.

Wei Wang, the Chinese man beaten up in Sighthill 12 days ago has died of his injuries in the Southern General Hospital. A murder inquiry has been initiated into the "apparently unprovoked" attack" and police are appealing for witnesses. From the police website the nearest station seems to be Saracen, 0141 532 3900.

"PERSONAL details on the identity card database will be sold to private-sector companies to offset the soaring cost of the scheme, Gordon Brown has indicated." There's going to be a "taskforce", headed up by a former bank boss to decide whether banks and other private companies should have access to the National Identiy Register data.

"A FOREIGN dentist keen to carry on working in Scotland's critically understaffed dental service is being forced to return to her own country because immigration officials do not consider her to be a "highly skilled" migrant." As Ms Sathyamoorthy is Indian, she has to score higher "points" than an EU national to qualify for a visa that would allow her to work in an area crying out for dental practioners.

Early this morning Trident Ploughshares activists boarded a US military plane at Prestwick Airport in the process carrying out an investigation of the involvement by the British authorities in covert and active collusion in Israeli war crimes in Lebanon.

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