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Desperate Search for Missing Death Toll Reaches 49 As Relatives Hunt for Loved Ones

SLEEP-STARVED and desperate, relatives and friends of the missing yesterday trawled London's streets and hospital wards, searching for an answer to just one question: are they dead or alive? They clutched family photographs and put up posters of people whose mobile phones have remained stubbornly unanswered since Thursday morning's attacks.

G8 Bows Out with Pounds-32bn Aid Package

WORLD leaders ended the G8 summit at Gleneagles yesterday by offering an "alternative to the hatred" of terrorism - significant pounds-32bn aid deals for Africa and the Palestinian Authority, and a promise to address climate change. Tony Blair, the prime minister, said: "All of this does not change the world tomorrow. It is a beginning, not an end. And none of it today will match the same ghastly impact as the cruelty of terror. But it has a pride and a hope and a humanity at its heart that c...

Spirit of Defiance As Staff Return Call for 'Business As Usual'

IT was less a rush hour, and more a slow but defiant return to normality. A day after the attacks that stunned the city, London's commuters boarded buses, Tubes and trains, determined to heed the authorities' calls for "business as usual".

Big Gaps Remain in Intelligence Sharing

CO-OPERATION between American and other western intelligence agencies remains far from perfect almost four years after al Qaeda's attacks on NewYork and Washington. Britain has established the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC), billed as a one-stop shop for collating data from the domestic Security Service (MI5), its overseas equivalent the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), and GCHQ's eavesdropping intercepts of phone, fax and e-mail traffic.

Ethnic Melting Pot Simmers with Grief at Capital Attacks in the Street Which Is Home to One of Britain's Biggest Muslim Communities, Susan Swarbrick Finds a Genuine Feeling of Sadness Over the Blasts

IT is late morning on a quiet London street as a handful of passers-by make their way past graffiti-daubed walls which are adorned with ragged flyposters. At a small fruit market, an array of colourful and exotic wares are piled up high outside, while in a barber's shop across the road a row of elderly Asian men sit quietly awaiting their turn.

Islamic Leaders Fear Backlash After 'Catastrophic' Bombings

THE Islamic Society of Scotland has warned of a possible backlash and is urging Muslims to be vigilant following Thursday's attacks. Jalal Chaudry, the society's chairman, said he condemned, on behalf of Scotland's Muslims, the "barbaric and catastrophic" bombings.

Vigilant Public Our Eyes and Ears, Say Police

THERE were pleas for calm and vigilance in Scotland yesterday to a public unnerved by events in London. Several incidents involving suspect packages, including one on a bus, increased public tension.

'A Beginning, Not an End' As World Leaders Rally Round a Continent Mixed Feelings Over Move to Double Aid

THE world's richest countries yesterday agreed to more than double aid to Africa in a drive to lift the continent out of poverty. After months of wrangling, the G8 leaders said they would spend an extra pounds-15bn annually on Africa by 2010.

Gleneagles 2005the Final Deal

Terrorism Leaders "condemned the barbaric attacks on London" and pledged "terrorists have not and will not succeed". Resolved to intensify work on counter-terrorism.

America Stands Alone Against Kyoto but Bush Admits Human Effect On Warming 'in Part' Analysis

THE government remained upbeat until the last moment, but the environmentalists were always dubious. Yesterday, it turned out the campaigners were right: the G8 came to an agreement on climate change, but without definite targets for reducing greenhouse gases and with only a passing reference to the Kyoto protocol.

Pounds-1.72bn Aid Package Gives Palestinians Hope of a Peaceful Settlement

THE Palestinian government was yesterday granted an aid package worth at least pounds-1.72bn to help it adjust to the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which is to start next month. The pledge was to help support institutions that remain precarious in political terms as well as lacking infrastructure.

Signing Off with a Photo-Call Finish Inside Gleneagles Blair Feels the Heat While Bono and Geldof Close the Proceedings

FAMILY photographs are difficult at the best of times. Who should take pride of place and who is exiled to the photographic equivalent of Siberia? Should the folliclychallenged be spread around to cut down on the glare?

Boogie On the Bridge Is the Last Big Protest

SEVERAL hundred anti-G8 protesters severely disrupted traffic in Glasgow city centre yesterday. Although the rally was mainly peaceful, 16 people were arrested later after some demonstrators tried to blockade the M8 motorway.

Auchterarder Counts the Cost of Celebrity

FROM being the centre of the world's attention for three intense days, Auchterarder readjusted to normal life yesterday. The end of the G8 summit was greeted with relief by some residents, who found the media circus, hordes of protesters and huge police presence something of an inconvenience.

Tragedy As Footballer Is Electrocuted Power Cables Kill Promising Teenager

A TALENTED young footballer was electrocuted by an overhead powerline yesterday when equipment he was carrying for a training session came into contact with power cables. Craig Gowans, a 17-year-old apprentice player with Falkirk FC, was holding 20ft-high poles at the training ground in Grangemouth when he was killed.

Reality Tv Writers Sue for Fairer Pay

IN a bizarre, behind-the-scenes twist that would make great material for a fly-on-the-wall documentary, Hollywood writers working on supposedly unscripted reality TV shows have filed a lawsuit claiming they have been toiling in sweatshop conditions that violate California's labour laws. The writers, or story editors as they are known, say they often work 80-hourweeks with no overtime pay or breaks and meal periods required by law.

Bed-Sharing Raises Risk of Death for Babies

BABIES who share a bed with their parents are more likely to suffer cot death, research by experts in Scotland has shown. The study, conducted at Glasgow University from 1996 to 2000, found infants sleeping in the same bed as an adult were more prone to sudden infant death syndrome even if the child is breastfed and the parent is a non-smoker.

Cheap Flights a Boon for Tourism European Visitors Up but Fewer From Us

THE number of overseas visitors to Scotland rose by 42-per cent in the first quarter of 2005 compared with the same period last year. The increase in the number of visitors to the whole of the UK was a more modest 14-per cent.

Police Probe As Guns Are Found

Guns and bomb-making equipment were found yesterday in a storage facility in Dundee. Staff at Alexander Removals, in Bellfield Street, contacted police after they opened boxes that had been stored for 10 years and found dismantled firearms and bags of ammonia nitrate fertiliser.

Holyrood Steps Up Security