A STUDENT who is taking legal action against the Scottish Executive for discrimination over tuition fees last night vowed to get justice for her peers.

A SCOTTISH soldier suspected of murdering the student Sally Geeson was found dead outside a Glasgow hotel after apparently jumping from the sixth floor, detectives said yesterday.

AN AIRLINE pilot is taking British Airways to an employment tribunal today claiming sex discrimination over part-time working.

DOCTORS are being urged to stop prescribing a new generation of arthritis drug taken by more than a million British patients after a review of its safety and effectiveness.

ELVIS Presley is back at the top of the UK singles chart, 27 years after he died.

A 23-YEAR-OLD Hull man was last night charged with the murder of Tina Stevenson, 31.

THE commander of British Forces in Gibraltar was found dead in his swimming pool yesterday.

ONLY 1.8 million viewers watched the BBC's controversial Jerry Springer: The Opera broadcast, despite it being the subject of a record number of complaints.

EMPLOYEES spend 15 per cent of their salaries, an average of £4,000 a year, on the "hidden costs" of work, including travel, clothes and food, a new survey reveals.

IT IS the ultimate excuse for those who prefer to live life in the slow lane.

FURTHER gales are expected to batter northern Britain until Wednesday with gusts up to 80mph and heavy rain that threatens more flooding.

MAVERICK MP George Galloway will use a long-established friendship with Fidel Castro to write an intimate portrayal of the Cuban leader this summer.

ANALYSISGORDON Brown looked almost shaken as he explained himself to the BBC television cameras yesterday. His feud with Tony Blair was taking on a life of its own: he no longer controlled it.

THE government failed to act on warnings that immediate action must be taken to identify the bodies of British victims of the tsunami disaster, a Scottish-based team of senior forensic scientists have claimed.

SINN Fein leaders knew the IRA was planning Britain's biggest ever bank robbery while they were negotiating a peace deal with the British and Irish governments, the Irish premier, Bertie Ahern, said yesterday.

SIR Anthony Meyer, the Tory back-bencher who challenged Margaret Thatcher for the party leadership in 1989, has died, his family confirmed yesterday. He was 84.

GORDON Brown last night called for a truce with Tony Blair after their bitter power struggle threatened to spin out of control and engulf Labour's general election campaign.

JACK McConnell raised the stakes in the row over his relationship with Kirsty Wark yesterday, claiming he did not declare his family holiday at the broadcaster's Spanish villa to parliamentary authorities because it was worth less than £250.