Thug with knife at primary

POLICE have been called twice in a week following alarming incidents at a city primary.

Pupils witnessed a thug with a knife outside Holy Cross Primary School on the South Side.

It has come to light after we revealed a sneak-in prowler gained access to the school and stole money.

Police confirmed the incidents.

ORGANISED crime gangs could exploit a deposit return scheme for drinks containers, Coca-Cola’s head of public affairs has said.

Jim Fox warned the risk would increase if different schemes were in place between Scotland and elsewhere in the UK.

The Scottish Government is examining the responses to a public consultation on introducing a deposit return scheme to boost recycling by up to 2.5 billion containers and to cut litter.

It involves customers paying a deposit on top of the price of a product and getting their money back when a container is recycled at a designated point of return.

Speaking at a fringe event at the SNP conference in Glasgow, Mr Fox, Cola-Cola’s head of public affairs in Europe, said his employers back deposit return but warned a Scotland-only scheme would “increase the amount of fraud that is possible” and create more packaging rather than less.

He said: “If you have different products north and south of the border then its easy to understand why a lot of people would make a lot of money shipping product backwards and forwards... all of that money goes to organised crime, it doesn’t go to the environment.”

Minister for Rural Affairs and the Natural Environment, Mairi Gougeon, said the Scottish Government is aware.