Glasgow bin lorry crash driver had 'dizziness for decades'
31 July 2015 From the section Glasgow & West Scotland Harry Clarke blacked out at the wheel of the bin lorry which crashed in Glasgow killing six people The Glasgow bin lorry inquiry into the...
View ArticleMy 50 favourite UK restaurants: critic Marina O'Loughlin's choice
The Guardian’s restaurant critic picks her 50 favourite restaurants in the UK, from a seaside pub in Kent that serves some of the best food on the planet to a Glasgow old-timer that’s a city...
View ArticleDriver jailed for killing pensioner crossing Glasgow road
A man who knocked down and killed a 78-year-old pedestrian has been jailed for three years and nine months. Sergej Rutkovskij ploughed into Robert Taylor on Glasgow's Gallowgate, at its junction with...
View ArticlePublic paychecks: Search through Orange County government salaries
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View ArticleSummer Concerts and Party Drug a Dangerous Mix (University of Connecticut...
(Source: University of Connecticut Health Center) Summer is peak concert season, a time when illicit drug use tends to spike. Professor C. Michael White, head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice in...
View ArticleWhat it's like having dysphagia — the disease that makes it feel like you're...
Toast is an unlikely agent of death. But there you are in your kitchen on a Saturday morning, inexplicably choking on a mouthful, trying not to panic. The day begins like any other for Samantha...
View ArticleNASA Announces New Director of Ames Research Center (NASA - The National...
(Source: NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced Monday the selection of Dr. Eugene L. Tu as the next director of the agency's Ames...
View ArticleAlberta man risks life using experimental drugs – then writes online reviews
Many of the 45 vials contain research chemicals, experimental drugs that produce euphoria. Swaths of them are not regulated by federal laws. Some are available for sale only on the dark web. An...
View ArticleNew Year's Honours list 2016 in full
Here is the full list of recipients in the New Year's Honours list 2016. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, CIVIL Share Go To DBE (Dame) Professor Lesley Jean Fallowfield. Director, Sussex Health Outcomes...
View ArticleNew year honours 2015: the full list
The new knights, dames, MBEs and OBEs in the UK and overseas, plus military and police honours...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleNew Year's honours 2016: the full list
The new knights, dames, MBEs and OBEs in the UK and overseas...
View ArticleThe most unmissable culture of 2016
Tarantino goes bounty-hunting, Botticelli takes you to hell, Bowie goes dark, and Jericho fills that Downton-shaped hole … in our bumper guide to the best 150 arts events to look forward to this year...
View ArticleRobroyston station opening will be Glasgow’s 60th
Glasgow is set to open its 60th railway station after the local authority yesterday approved £10 million worth of funding for a project that will deliver more than 1500 new homes. A halt will be built...
View ArticlePaul Boyle guilty of knife murder of Kenneth McNeill in Glasgow
An intruder who fatally stabbed a man at a flat in Glasgow is facing a life sentence for murder. Paul Boyle, 38, repeatedly stabbed 52-year-old Kenneth McNeill at the flat in Dumbarton Road, Yoker, on...
View ArticleSwedish House Mafia concert death caused by overdose
A man who collapsed after attending a Swedish House Mafia concert in Phoenix Park died as a result of ecstasy and cocaine toxicity, a coroner has found. Shane Brophy (21) from The Swan, Crettyard in Co...
View Article‘Drunk’ pilots arrested at Glasgow Airport appear in court
Two pilots arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol as they prepared to fly a transatlantic passenger jet from Scotland to Canada have appeared in court. Jean-Francois Perreault,...
View ArticleMotorists warned of dangers of driving under the influence of drugs on...
(Source: Merseyside Police) Merseyside Police is warning motorists of the dangers of driving while under the influence of drugs on the 12 month anniversary of the introduction of a new national drug...
View ArticleGlasgow bin lorry crash driver suspended by city council
Harry Clarke suspended ‘on precautionary basis’ ahead of disciplinary investigation into allegations made during fatal accident inquiry...
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