The Airdrie Page

A MAN appeared in court today accused of murdering his first wife and trying to kill his second as part of a fraudulent plot to make hundreds of thousands of pounds.

THE deaths of three asylum seekers in an apparent suicide could be investigated through a fatal accident inquiry, the First Minister said today.

A HIGH-SPEED railway proposed by the UK Government must be extended to Scotland from the outset, business leaders have demanded.

DETECTIVES are continuing their investigations into how a woman – believed to be a missing Scots mum – met her death.

A SECOND man has been arrested and charged in connection with a shooting at a pub, police said today.