Scotland on Thursday

WELCOME to today's tasty news morsels, including SPORT, FASHION, TELEVISION, BUSINESS and the INTERNET.

RED TOP REVIEW

Darwins sentenced
It would have been a tough call to avoid the case of missing canoeist John Darwin and his wife Anne this morning after both were given jail terms for a £250,000 fraud in which he faked his death. The Daily Mirror and Daily Record reveal that Anne Darwin plans to return to Panama when she is freed from jail.
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'Chav-Finch' vandal caught
Elsewhere, The Sun has the latest on tearaways making life in the suburbs intolerable. Adam Fradgley, a father of one from Worcestershire, was so intent on catching "yobs" who were vandalising his car that he set up a camera to trap them. But it turned out the culprit was a chaffinch looking at its reflection in the gleaming bodywork and shiny windows. Under the headline "The Chav-Finch", the paper has picture of the bird doing its worst to Mr Fradgley's Audi A2.
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You can't always get what you want
The Sun still can't get enough of Ronnie Wood and his rock'n'roll lifestyle. This morning it reveals that the Rolling Stone "wants to save his marriage AND keep seeing his Russian girlfriend". Apparently, he has told patients at a rehab clinic outside London that: "I love my wife - but I have a girlfriend and I love her too." That's nice.
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BUSINESS
By Rosemary Gallagher

BP profits exceed expectations
BG Group's profits soared in the second quarter of the year - beating analyst forecasts - as a result of high gas prices and clever trading of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Excluding one-off items, net profit rose 97% to £807m. In the UK, average gas prices rose 37% to 32.8p per therm. BG was also helped by strong demand for LNG.

TELEVISION
By Fiona Leith

What makes a man
Captain Jack, otherwise known as all-round BBC darling John Barrowman, tonight takes part in the fascinating series, The Making of Me. Vanessa Mae and Colin Jackson have already used scientific testing, psychology, brain science and genetics to investigate the origins of their defining characteristics - musicality and speed - but this may just prove the most interesting, given that Barrowman is asking what makes him gay.
The Making of Me, BBC1, 9pm

Getting high
A Scottish drama shortlisted for the Rose D'Or and the Prix Italia Awards, and winner of a Bafta? Slovenly, dry humoured, and not exactly knocking on Dynasty's wardrobe door in the fashion department either, High Times is a breath of fresh air through TV soapland. After a cult following for its first series, the show, set in a Glasgow high rise, returns tonight, High Times, STV, 10.40pm.

A holy row
Journalist Ben Anderson shadows Archbishop Peter Akinola - leader of the Anglican Church in Nigeria - as he and his followers prepare for a summit in Jerusalem which aims to unite disaffected conservatives across the Anglican world.
Battle of the Bishops, BBC 2 Scotland, 7.30pm

FASHION
By Kayt Turner

Pictured (left to right): Will Ferrell; Alesha Dixon; Nikki Grahame

C'mon the Blues
Now, before anyone starts criticising Will Ferrell for wearing this Chelsea top (that's my job, remember) I feel I should point out that he's actually a great 'soccer' fan. I'm certain he talks endlessly of his love of Chelsea United and how many baskets they scored last season. He's even pretty confident that they'll qualify for next year's World Cup.

School is out
The PR peeps thought long and hard about this. How can we make education and vocational qualifications seem attractive and sexy? Why not get the attractive and sexy Alesha Dixon? She's bubbly, sexy and loads of fun - that'll surely get the yoof running to sign up. Shame Alesha felt she had to dress 'sensibly' for the occasion. She looks like my maths teacher - albeit with kicking shoes.

Who IS she?
The Motor Show is all stupid macho raw power and ludicrously over the top stunts. That's why we love it. So, for the Celebrity Driving Challenge, I expected, you know, Celebrities. Imagine my disappointment when Nikki Grahame was the only 'celebrity' that I even recognised. And she can't even be bothered to let up on the torn face. It's really not good enough, is it?

SPORT
By Graham Bean

Mosely wins 'Nazi orgy' case
Formula One boss Max Mosley today won his privacy action against the News of the World. The newspaper, which had accused the 68-year-old son of the 1930s Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley of taking part in a "sick Nazi orgy" with five prostitutes, must now pay him a record £60,000 compensation.

Mr Justice Eady did not make an additional award – which would have been unprecedented in invasion of privacy cases – of punitive exemplary damages.

Mosley, president of the FIA (Federation Internationale de l'Automobile), did not dispute taking part in the sadomasochistic role play at a rented Chelsea basement flat, but said it was consensual and private, with no Nazi overtones.

He said his life was devastated by the March exposé and by the newspaper putting secretly-filmed footage of what it called a "truly grotesque and depraved" event on its website, attracting at least 3.5 million hits at the last count.

James Price QC told London's High Court that the "gross and indefensible intrusion" by the tabloid in its role as a titillating Peeping Tom was made substantially worse by the false suggestion that Mosley was playing a concentration camp commandant and a cowering death camp inmate.

The newspaper's editor, Colin Myler, said he believed the story was one of "legitimate public interest and one that I believe was legitimately published" and that it was "absolutely not true" that the newspaper had fabricated the Nazi aspect.

Mosley was in court but showed no emotion at the ruling.

INTERNET

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