Football legend tells of midnight meeting with top IRA members (Scotland on Sunday)
FROM an impoverished childhood in the Gorbals to fame and fortune at the top of the beautiful game, Paddy Crerand spent his lifetime rising to some of the toughest challenges a sportsman can face....more...Call Putin's bluff: save Russia (Times Online)
Putin and Putin's Russia are being widely discussed in the West. Opinions have split: some say it's better to be friends, others insist that a hardline approach is more fitting....more... Obamas get personal to upset Clinton bandwagon (The Scotsman)
NO MORE Mr Nice Guy. With less than five months to go before Democrats choose their candidate for next year's Presidential elections, Senator Barack Obama is learning that it's time for the gloves to come off if he is to have a realistic chance of......more... Police chief calls for alcohol ban in public places (Times Online)
One of the UK's most senior police officers stepped up his campaign against alcohol-related youth crime today by calling for a nationwide ban on drinking in public....more... Novo key to Rangers' hopes as he unlocks Red Star (The Scotsman: Sport)
NACHO Novo last night drew himself level in the Rangers' history books with one of the club's European legends to put Walter Smith's team in a favourable position to reach the lucrative group stage of the Champions League....more... Elvis Presley ? 1935-2007 (The Memphis Flyer)
Elvis Presley, the man who jump-started the rock-and-roll revolution from a tiny Memphis recording studio in 1954 and went on to become the world's most recognizable entertainer, died Monday, August 6th, of cardiac arrest, at his Horn Lake, Mississippi, home. He was 72 years old....more... |