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...Making the announcement on Thursday, Justice Secretary of Scotland Kenny MacAskill said that Al-Megrahi was released on compassionate grounds because he has terminal prostate cancer and is unlikely to live past the next three months. A Libyan jet met Al-Megrahi at Scotland's Glasgow Airport to take him back to Tripoli, where he was greeted by hundreds of people, many of them waving flags. Al-Megrahi was met by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's son, Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, who was quoted as saying, "I would like to thank the Scottish government for its courageous decision and understanding...
...July 2, some areas of the country had been taking a containment approach - testing all suspected cases, closing schools with confirmed cases and offering the antiviral drug Tamiflu as a prophylactic to those who'd come into close contact with suspected cases - while certain hot spots, like London and Glasgow, abandoned the containment strategy. "The truth of the matter is, either you should get it now or try to avoid getting it - you can't have it both ways. It's so easy to give a glib representation of ignorant parents who are acting hysterically," she told the Independent...
Your 100 movers and shakers are left-field fixtures if you leave out organized religion. No room for Benedict XVI, the Dalai Lama or Ned Flanders? Joseph Kelly, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND...
...only took 341 years but, finally, Britain has a female Poet Laureate. Carol Ann Duffy will hold the 10-year post, following in the formidable footsteps of the likes of William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes. Glasgow-born Duffy, 53, said she had thought "long and hard" before accepting the high-profile job, and gave the final say to her 13-year-old daughter. Her response? "She said, 'Yes mummy, there's never been a woman.'" Now Duffy, who once said "no self-respecting poet" should have to write about royal weddings (she was referring...
...Born in 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland, she grew up in Staffordshire, England and graduated from Liverpool University in 1977 with a degree in philosophy...