THREE people are to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court today following a house fire in the city from which five people were rescued.
A woman, her three children, aged 19, 14, and 10, and a 16-year-old male friend of her son, were taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary suffering from the effects of smoke after fire broke out at her Oxgangs Farm Drive home on Saturday.
Faster ferry
A NEW, faster ferry for services between Scotland and Northern Ireland will arrive in Stranraer this week for berthing trials and begin service to Belfast next week. The #63m Stena Voyager will cross in just under 80 minutes up to six times a day. It can carry 1500 passengers and 375 cars.
Tours a hoax
A PLAN to run guided tours to the scenes of Britain's worst mass murders and disasters was exposed as a hoax yesterday. A group called A Responsible Thought said it arranged the publicity stunt to make the popular press more responsible. The group denied it may have caused offence by the stunt, instead blaming the press for sensationalist reporting.
Child sex attack
A BURGLAR who sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl in her bed at knifepoint had cut a hole in the front door of the house in Lenton Abbey, near Beeston, Nottinghamshire, police said yesterday. The victim, whose younger sister was sleeping in the next bed, raised the alarm by screaming.
Ecstasy haul
FIVE men, arrested when Customs officers seized #5m worth of ecstasy tablets during a routine search of a car entering the Channel Tunnel, will appear before Dover or Folkestone magistrates this morning.
Space conference
FUTURE missions to Mars and the search for life on the planet will top the agenda when around 1500 top space scientists meet in Birmingham University today. The five-day Cospar '96 International Space Science Meeting will also review the findings of the Galileo probe to Jupiter.
Rothschild funeral
THE financier Amschel Rothschild, who committed suicide last week in a Paris hotel, will be buried at the Liberal Jewish Cemetery in Willesden, London, tomorrow. Mr Rothschild, the second son of Lord Victor Rothschild, was heir apparent to one of the world's most famous banking dynasties.
Lucky dozen
TWELVE winners shared Saturday's #21.9m National Lottery rollover jackpot and will each receive #1.8m. An further 41 tickets, which matched five numbers and the bonus ball, won #80,000. Winning numbers were 5, 10, 11, 12, 41, and 42, and the bonus ball was 2.
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