
THOUSANDS of poorer Scots could escape controversial increases in the retirement age recommended yesterday - because they are likely to die earlier than the better-off.
THE scale of the Scottish Tories' 2005 general election defeat was laid bare yesterday as it emerged that the party spent £1.3 million on a campaign which yielded only one MP and left it with the lowest vote share in its history.
J K ROWLING has written about her experience of grinding poverty and nights when vandals, burglars and drunks would make her life a misery.
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