Man dies after he is struck by lorry

NEW FIGURES show Scottish Government projections on oil and gas revenues are “spectacularly wrong”, according to the Conservatives.

Scotland’s share of North Sea revenue was £4bn in the financial year 2013/14, official statistics published today show.

The Scottish Government previously said income for the year could be between £7.1bn and £8.3bn. Conservative MSPs called on Energy Minister Fergus Ewing to explain the discrepancy during exchanges at Holyrood.

The party’s finance spokesman Gavin Brown said: “Oil and gas figures published this morning by the Scottish Government show that they collected £4bn in financial year 2013-14. That’s down from £5.5bn in 2012-13.

“The Scottish Government said we were going to collect between £7 and £8bn for 2013-14. Can the minister explain why the Scottish Government got it so spectacularly wrong for the second year in a row?”

Mr Ewing said: “The oil price this morning was 103 US dollars (£61.60) a barrel. That figure is extremely satisfactory and there is nobody in the industry apart from Mr Brown that anticipates that oil will be anything other than an enormous advantage, rather than a problem as Mr Brown seems to think.” CONSUMING TOO much salt leads to more than 1.6 million heart disease-related deaths around the world each year, research suggests.

Scientists based the finding on an analysis of 205 surveys of sodium intake in countries representing nearly three-quarters of the world’s adult population.

Effects of sodium on blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk were determined in a separate study of pooled trial data.

The average level of sodium consumption in 2010 was found to be 3.95 grams per day – nearly double the two grams recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO). In total, the researchers calculated that 1.65 million deaths from cardiovascular disease occurred each year as a result of consuming more than the WHO limit.

Lead scientist Dr Dariush Mozaffarian, from Tufts University in the US, said: “High sodium intake is known to increase blood pressure, a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases including heart disease and stroke.

“These 1.65 million deaths represent nearly one in 10 of all deaths from cardiovascular causes worldwide.”

Salt, used in cooking, sprinkled on food, or incorporated into food products, is the biggest dietary source of sodium. The research, in the the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that people in the US on average consumed 3.6 grams of sodium per day. The NHS estimates the equivalent figure in Britain is around 3.2g a day.

Sodium intake around the world ranged from 2.18 grams per day in sub-Saharan Africa to 5.51 grams per day in central Asia.

Co-author John Powles, of Cambridge University, said four out of five global deaths attributable to sodium occurred in middle- and low-income countries.

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WAKEFIELD: A man died after he was struck by a lorry in the Carr Gate area.

West Yorkshire Police has launched an investigation into the accident, which took place near to the A650 at around 4pm.

Emergency crews attended but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

The road was closed for several hours following the incident.