The best way to enhance and speed the benefits of Design for Six Sigma and lean engineering is to review your product development process in its entirety. Learn how digital product development can help you reduce costs, eliminate waste, and

PLATFORMIT IS no surprise that UK consumers spend more on plastic than they do with cash these days. When a customer uses plastic it's for many different reasons, all of which are based around the fact it is in some

JOYCE McMILLANRESPONSE to the tsunami disaster offers chance to put aside dogmas.

ROBERT McNEIL'S WEEKGOD, I feel awful. No, don't worry, I don't mean ethically or philosophically, as usual. I just mean physically.

A LETTER FROM THE ALPS Where do the jet set spend Hogmanay? Wasn't that the billionaire Paul Allen waiting in the queue outside?

tsunami: noun. 1: A very large ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake. (Etymology: from Japanese: tsu, port + nami, wave.)

THE SCOTSMAN PASTIF THE author Charles Dickens had heard this story, he might well have incorporated it in The Pickwick Papers. Enjoy this Scotsman story from 1831.

WELCOME to 2005. The old year ended on a tragic note, with one of the worst natural disasters of modern times.

FOCUSWHATEVER he does with the Chancellor, an arduous 2004 may have sown the seeds of destruction for the Prime Minister, writes James Kirkup.

ALBERT MORRISI SOON realised that swearing was the only language the Army understood.

ALTHOUGH we were often told she was fatter and spottier than ever, Britney Spears found two people willing to marry her in 2004. Jason Alexander wed her in a Las Vegas chapel, although the "just-for-fun" ceremony was annulled within two

SALARY increases in the public sector under Labour are outstripping those in private business, prompting warnings that Scotland's economy will suffer as a result.

JACK Straw yesterday warned the Prime Minister against sacking or demoting Gordon Brown after the general election, laying bare the internal power struggle set to convulse the party in its expected third term.

SECRET PAPERSA DEVOLVED Scotland would become a left-wing, one-party state, the Scottish Office warned ministers 30 years ago.

FROM today those seeking to obtain government information should find it a little easier, thanks to new freedom of information legislation.

MINISTERS have been accused of exaggerating the terrorist threat to Britain.

A LIKING for bigger birds ruined the traditional Christmas Day meal for hundreds of Britons, a report showed yesterday.

A FORMER soldier spoke yesterday of his heartbreak after receiving letters which would have changed his life - 60 years too late.

TESCO, the supermarket group, yesterday announced another round of price cuts and promised to reduce the cost of 500 products by an average of 9 per cent from next week.

A 27-YEAR-OLD man was being questioned last night about the murder of pregnant teenager Amy Williams.