Shot man stable
A MAN who was shot by police in Lanarkshire was said to be in a serious but stable condition in hospital last night.
Officers were called out on Friday after reports that the man was armed and on the rail track near Carfin station.
The man, who has not been named, was shot at around 5.25pm. He was taken to Wishaw General Hospital.
The railway station has been closed to the public following the incident.
Yesterday Strathclyde Police revealed that Lothian and Borders Police had now taken over the investigation, as is routine for such incidents. A Lothian and Borders spokesman said: "A thorough investigation will concentrate on establishing the full circumstances surrounding this incident."
Five more possible swine flu cases
FIVE new possible cases of swine flu in Scotland are under investigation, Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said yesterday. She added that 11 possible cases from Friday had now been ruled out. Test results are expected on two probable cases.
A 45-year-old woman, a five-year-old child and a 16-year-old have all tested positive for the virus.
The cases are all in the Greenock area, where a primary school and a nursery were closed earlier this week amid fears that swine flu was spreading among pupils.
Friel joins the Breakfast club
EX-Brookside star Anna Friel is to play Holly Golightly in a West End stage version of Breakfast At Tiffany's.
Audrey Hepburn famously played Miss Golightly, a vivacious good-time girl, in a film version of Truman Capote's classic novel. Friel, right, 32, said: "I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to play one of my all-time favourite heroines and to be returning home to the London stage."
Best known for her role as teenage lesbian Beth Jordache in long-running Channel 4 soap Brookside, Friel was recently seen in US TV series Pushing Daisies.
McCanns to sue ex-Portuguese police chief
THE parents of missing Madeleine McCann are to sue the disgraced Portuguese police chief who led the hunt for their daughter.
Kate and Gerry McCann are to take action over comments made in the media by Goncalo Amaral, who previously led the inquiry into Madeleine's disappearance. In a statement, they said: "We, together with our three children Madeleine, Sean and Amelie, are taking this legal action against Goncalo Amaral over his entirely unfounded and grossly defamatory claims that we, her parents, were somehow involved in concealing her body."
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