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All nine carriages on a high-speed tilting train containing around 200 people derailed in Cumbria last night, leaving passengers injured and trapped.

Scotland. The birthplace of golf, the home of Monty, Sam Torrance, Sandy Lyle, Paul Lawrie, James Braid (more of whom anon) and others. Yes, if you want to talk about golf destinations, it would be pretty odd to omit Scotland.

A 12-YEAR-OLD girl taken to Pakistan by her father without her mother’s knowledge said yesterday that she went of her own free will.

REBEL MP George Galloway yesterday said he would stand against Labour as an independent after being thrown out of the party for his outspoken opposition to the war in Iraq.