School headteachers ‘do jobs of cleaners’

Heads are forced to dispose of needles and clean toilets after janitors refuse to do it on health and safety grounds

We all sneered at Susan Boyle says 1:24 girl

Glasgow teenager Jennifer Byrne says she was the victim of selective editing by Britain’s Got Talent programme makers

US rejects Brown's plans to tax transactions

Humiliation for the prime minster as Americans reject his G20 ideas for banking reforms to prevent taxpayer bailouts

Gang throw fireworks at drivers in filling station

War wounded still come — and they’re getting younger

'World’s shortest flight' to get to school

The journey from Papa Westray to Westray in the Orkney Islands takes just 96 seconds covering a distance of about a mile

Reid spells out tough choices facing trust

Holyrood's former presiding officer attacks National Trust for Scotland's decision-making as he begins robust review

Giant artwork to spring from hole in ground

Opencast mine to be transformed into Scotland's biggest artworkl as Charles Jencks' Fife Earth Project gets go-ahead

Family evictions putting children on street

Charity calls for more crisis interventions as five children a day face threat of homelessness as a result of evictions

Hitler? Wasn't he a German football coach?

Survey also finds that children believe SS are the Secret Seven and that the Holocaust was a celebration at end of the war

BNP could come third in Glasgow North East

Mainstream parties increasingly worried that far-right is on the threshold of a political breakthrough in Scotland

Salmond singing in the economic gloom

First Minister is the Gene Kelly of Holyrood, dancing around the oppositiion as they try to blame him for Scotland's woes