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The Pill 'cuts cancer risk and prolongs life'
TAKING the contraceptive pill can help women live longer and reduce their risk of serious diseases, according to a major new study by Scottish researchers.
Call for spending watchdog to probe trams 'shambles'
AN INDEPENDENT audit into Edinburgh's crisis-hit tram scheme was demanded last night, amid allegations that project chiefs were mishandling the construction contract.
MPs: We can't be tried for expenses 'fiddle'
THREE Labour MPs and a Conservative peer told a judge yesterday they will use a 320-year-old law to argue they should not be prosecuted over the expenses scandal.
Get ready for our Sam missile, David Cameron tells UK
DAVID Cameron has told Britain to "get ready" for his wife, Samantha, as she prepares to adopt an increasingly prominent role in the Conservatives' general electio
World's oldest malt ? yours for £10,000 a bottle
IT HAS been more than 70 years in the making and was laid down in a small Scottish distillery the year before the outbreak of the Second World War.
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