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Tesco has removed sweets and chocolate from all of its checkouts to reduce pester power and help families choose healthier food. The supermarket removed confectionery from larger stores 20 years ago but the changes that come into effect today will apply to all stores in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, including about 2,000 smaller Metro and Express outlets. A year ago, Lidl did the same at its UK stores, after surveying parents about the “pester power” of children.
Thousands of people defied sub-zero temperatures to attend Glasgow’s world-famous Hogmanay party in George Square. As temperatures dropped to -8°C, the crowd was entertained by Deacon Blue, rising star Tommy Reilly and the Black Hand Gang. It seems age has done nothing to diminish the fire of Deacon Blue – their heartfelt pop was still dripping with emotion and full of drama. Revellers were treated to such classics as Raintown, Dignity, and Real Gone Kid.
The Gloucester builder Fredrick West, pictured, who was suspected of killing 12 women and girls, was found hanged in his cell yesterday. West, who owned the so-called “house of horrors” at 25 Cromwell Street where police unearthed nine corpses, was discovered just before 1pm in his cell in Winson Green Prison in Birmingham. Prison staff tried to resuscitate him but he was pronounced dead a short while later. Last night, West midlands Police said they were looking into the death.
More Glasgow policemen are demanding that they should be armed after the shooting of Detective Constable Angus Mackenzie in an incident in the city of Tuesday. Detective Sergeant Stewart Waldman, chairman of the Scottish Police Federation and of the Glasgow branch of the federation said yesterday – “There is a stronger demand now from the members of the forces that men must be armed. They do not want an armed police force but they see no alternative now that hanging has been abolished.”
The death is reported, as the result of a motor accident at Knock, Isle of Skye, of Dr Walter R. Hastings, medical officer of the parish of Sleat. Dr. Hastings, accompanied by the district nurse and his servant boy, was motoring on the return journey from Ardavasar, when after crossing the bridge between Teangue and Knock, and a few yards west of the Free Church, the car, which was being driven by Dr. Hastings at a moderate speed, toppled over the embankment, landing on its side below the road.