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Scottish News for 1 May 2012

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Extra care may have stopped deaths May 01 2012

An inquiry into the double suicide of two teenage girls has found their deaths may have been avoided if the care unit where they stayed had taken "reasonable precautions", including having more staff on duty on the night they died.Read

Teachers to start working-to-rule May 01 2012

High school teachers will work-to-rule in protest against plans to increase the amount of money they pay towards their pensions.Read

Salmond attacked again over Murdoch May 01 2012

Alex Salmond is under more pressure over his relationship with Rupert Murdoch, after a House of Commons report said the media mogul was not "a fit person" to run a major international corporation.Read

Gas leak fish 'not contaminated' May 01 2012

Chemical tests have confirmed there are no traces of hydrocarbon contamination on fish taken from the sea near a leaking gas platform, the Scottish Government has said.Read

Man arrested over big cannabis haul May 01 2012

A man has been arrested in connection with £573,000-worth of drugs seized during a police raid.Read

Murdered aid worker 'deeply caring' May 01 2012

Family and friends of a British aid worker killed in Pakistan have paid tribute to him, describing him as "amongst the most gentle, most kind and most loving person we have ever known".Read

Trial witness 'secretly recorded' May 01 2012

The man Nat Fraser claims could have been behind his wife's alleged murder referred to the missing woman in a secretly recorded conversation, a murder trial has heard.Read

Spartacus in running for art prize May 01 2012

A man who has spent 15 years drawing an imaginary city whose residents are human excrement who have sex in public, and a woman who changed her name to Spartacus have been nominated for this year's Turner Prize.Read

Alcohol law can be ditched later May 01 2012

A law setting a minimum price for alcohol will be ditched after six years if the policy does not work, MSPs have agreed.Read

Aide dragged into hacking scandal May 01 2012

An aide to the First Minister has revealed her phone may have been hacked.Read

Bridge deaths: care unit criticised May 01 2012

The suicides of two teenage girls who fell more than 100ft from a bridge may have been avoided if more staff had been on duty at the care unit they were living in, a sheriff has said.Read