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The rifts prompted Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to call for all branches of government to support the president, whose government he has hailed as extremely successful.”National unity is very important and must be strengthened with every passing day …and by that I am addressing both officials and ordinary people,” Khamenei said.However, Payam-e Enghelab’s criticisms were similar to those voiced by parliament, the judiciary and clerics.”Dealing with marginal and unnecessary issues by some politicians has become the country’s main issue,” the magazine said, referring to the controversy about the “Iranian” school of thought which many of Ahmadinejad’s fellow conservatives say smacks of secular nationalism.

THOUSANDS of bereaved parents across the UK are not finding out why their baby died because of overstretched pathology services, campaigners have warned. Every day in the UK, 17 babies are stillborn or die shortly after birth. However, the perinatal post-mortem examination rate in the UK remains low at about 39 per cent, with little effort being made to improve up-take since the organ retention scandaADVERTISEMENTls in the late 1990s, according to campaigners.Stillbirth charity Sands and the Royal College of Pathologists are calling for resources to allow more post-mortem examinations to take place, which can help parents going through future pregnancies.The charity said there were several reasons why rates of post-mortem examinations remained so low.

In many cases bereaved parents were put off consenting to a post-mortem examination because the process for seeking consent was bewildering, with some maternity units using consent forms that are up to 25 pages long.In some cases parents were not even offered the chance of a post-mortem examination. Sands said that despite the dedication of perinatal pathology staff, the service was underfunded and understaffed with too few pathologists and mortuary staff, and variation around the country in the quality of service on offer.

The city’s sheriff court heard Steven McIvor, 26, had been told to carry out the crime by another prison resident when he was last in jail.Fiscal depute Gerard Drugan said McIvor was spotted buying items to prepare for the drug being thrown over the wall. He was then seen lobbing an item over the wall which was found to be heroin and a phone.Mr Drugan said the drugs would have been worth around ￡300 on the streets but could reach more inside the prison. He added the phone would also have been valuable.McIvor, of Edinburgh Prison, admitted carrying out the offence on August 2 this year at HMP Edinburgh, Stenhouse Road, Edinburgh.Sheriff Neil MacKinnon told McIvor custody was the only option to reflect the seriousness of the crime. The father of a soldier who died after a Nimrod exploded over Afghanistan has told a court he believes it was an accident that could have been avoided.

Robert Dicketts, 66, said: “It was one of those things that really should not have happened because the plane was not airworthy.”Oliver Dicketts, 27, was one of 14 armed forces personnel who died when RAF Nimrod XV230 crashed after a fire broke oADVERTISEMENTut on the plane near Kandahar on 2 September, 2006.Mr Dicketts and his wife Priscilla, 62, are each seeking damages of up to ￡100,000 in an action against the Advocate General for Scotland, Lord Wallace of Tankerness QC representing the Royal Air Force, before a civil jury.The retired accountant said that in the wake of the loss that he had come to realise more and more that it was an accident that should not have occurred. Mr Dicketts told the Court of Session in Edinburgh: “The plane should not have been up in the air. You expect the equipment they are given to be useable and correct.”

The couple’s counsel, Andrew MacMillan, told jurors that liability for the accident had been admitted. The jury will have to decide the level of damages awarded to the couple from Brenchley Road, Horsmonden, in Kent.Mr MacMillan said: “This plane did not fall from the sky as a result of enemy fire.”The hearing before Lady Dorrian continues.SCOTTISH fishermen’s leaders and environment secretary Richard Lochhead have united in condemning a decision by the Isle of Man government to ban the bulk of Scotland’s scallop trawlers from Manx waters.

In the interrogation rooms, detainees were kept bound to a chair fixed to the floor, preventing nearly all movement; “at times they were kept in this position continually for hours with only short food and toilet breaks”, the report alleged.It said detainees were held in tiny windowless cells with an artificial light kept on around the clock that caused sore eyes, impaired vision and difficulties falling and staying asleep.The report described hygiene conditions as “appalling”, with “reeking” squat toilets and filthy mattresses and blankets. The report charged that the conditions reflected “an interrogation doctrine that seeks to break the spirit of the detainee”.The two human rights groups said practices appeared to have the backing of state officials. Since 2001, some 645 complaints from interrogated Palestinians have been made to the justice ministry but none led to a criminal investigation.

In response to the claims, the justice ministry said: “Shin Bet investigations are done in accordance with the law and with the goal of thwarting and preventing illegal activity that aims to harm state security.” Imprisoned Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky gave an impassioned final address to a Moscow court yesterday, telling the judge that the fate of the entire nation rests on the verdict in his trial. In his last words before proceedings were adjourned until 15 December, he also said he was ready to spend the rest of his life in prison, insisting that the principles he believed in were “worth my life”.Khodorkovsky, 47, was Russia’s richest manADVERTISEMENT and the owner of its largest and fastest-growing oil company when he was arrested in 2003 on charges of tax evasion.

The eight-year sentence he received and the state’s takeover of his Yukos oil company were widely seen as punishment for his decision to challenge the authority of the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin.He is now a year from release but is being tried on a second set of politically-driven charges that could keep him behind bars until 2017.”Here and now, the fate of every citizen of our country is being decided,” Khodorkovsky told Judge Viktor Danilkin.

The father of a soldier who died after a Nimrod exploded over Afghanistan has told a court he believes it was an accident that could have been avoided. Robert Dicketts, 66, said: “It was one of those things that really should not have happened because the plane was not airworthy.”Oliver Dicketts, 27, was one of 14 armed forces personnel who died when RAF Nimrod XV230 crashed after a fire broke oADVERTISEMENTut on the plane near Kandahar on 2 September, 2006.Mr Dicketts and his wife Priscilla, 62, are each seeking damages of up to ￡100,000 in an action against the Advocate General for Scotland, Lord Wallace of Tankerness QC representing the Royal Air Force, before a civil jury.

The retired accountant said that in the wake of the loss that he had come to realise more and more that it was an accident that should not have occurred. SCOTTISH fishermen’s leaders and environment secretary Richard Lochhead have united in condemning a decision by the Isle of Man government to ban the bulk of Scotland’s scallop trawlers from Manx waters. The Manx authorities have introduced a bye-law that effectively prevents large Scottish boats from fishing in their traditional scallop grounds around the island.Mr Lochhead said: “The Scottish Government believes the Isle of Man bye-law is unnecessary and unwarranted and I have been in contact with the Isle of Man fisheries minister – and UK ministers who gave the go-ahead – to make my concerns clear.”

John Hermse, secretary of the Scallop Association in Scotland, said: “We had made it crystal clear to the Scottish Government right from the beginning in April that this regulation was all about walling out the Scottish fleet and not about stock sustainability.”Political action is now required at the highest level to restore access to those vessels with traditional rights. Even at this 11th hour, we reiterate our willingness to talk.”A TEN-year-old girl has given birth in southern Spain and authorities are evaluating whether to let her and her family retain custody of the baby.Studies have shown that teenage girls are more likely to give birth to premature babies and their infants have a higher chance of dying in the first year.

It said detainees were held in tiny windowless cells with an artificial light kept on around the clock that caused sore eyes, impaired vision and difficulties falling and staying asleep.The report described hygiene conditions as “appalling”, with “reeking” squat toilets and filthy mattresses and blankets. The report charged that the conditions reflected “an interrogation doctrine that seeks to break the spirit of the detainee”.The two human rights groups said practices appeared to have the backing of state officials. Since 2001, some 645 complaints from interrogated Palestinians have been made to the justice ministry but none led to a criminal investigation.In response to the claims, the justice ministry said: “Shin Bet investigations are done in accordance with the law and with the goal of thwarting and preventing illegal activity that aims to harm state security.”

Imprisoned Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky gave an impassioned final address to a Moscow court yesterday, telling the judge that the fate of the entire nation rests on the verdict in his trial. In his last words before proceedings were adjourned until 15 December, he also said he was ready to spend the rest of his life in prison, insisting that the principles he believed in were “worth my life”.Khodorkovsky, 47, was Russia’s richest manADVERTISEMENT and the owner of its largest and fastest-growing oil company when he was arrested in 2003 on charges of tax evasion.

The eight-year sentence he received and the state’s takeover of his Yukos oil company were widely seen as punishment for his decision to challenge the authority of the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin.He is now a year from release but is being tried on a second set of politically-driven charges that could keep him behind bars until 2017.”Here and now, the fate of every citizen of our country is being decided,” Khodorkovsky told Judge Viktor Danilkin.He asked the judge to think of people all over the country who “are not counting on becoming victims of police lawlessness, who have set up a business, built a house, achieved success and want to pass it on to their children, not to raiders in epaulettes”.

The number of children with English as a second language has almost doubled since 2005 and the enlargement of the European Union. Then, Polish did not even make the top five most popular languages.Five additional languages have appeared this year in Edinburgh schools as new pupils have arrived – Afrikaans, Armenian, Maltese, Sindhi (an Iranian-based language) and Urhobo (a Nigerian-based language).The council has a responsibility to provide support for all these children, even if there is just one child speaking a particular language in the city.Many youngsters moving to Edinburgh from other countries cannot speak English at all, meaning additional resources have to be put into schools to help them learn.

These are provided through the English as an Additional Language (EAL) service, which offers support for bilingual pupils and their teachers in schools and currently costs more than ￡1.5 million.City education leader Councillor Marilyne MacLaren said: “This service reflects Edinburgh’s vibrancy as a multi-cultural capital city.”We provide support for children from all over the world and this brings benefits to all children in our schools.”Each year the demand changes and this means that people are coming and going and contributing to the city’s economy.”In a report prepared for next week’s education committee, education director Gillian Tee said: “Over recent years there has been a significant increase in the number of bilingual and minority ethnic pupils attending (council] schools.”

A large proportion of such pupils require EAL support to access the curriculum and achieve their potential.”In particular, since 2005 there has been a large increase in the number of bilingual pupils arriving from Eastern Europe, and in particular from Poland.”Typically these pupils are at the earliest stage of acquiring English and thus require greater levels of support that has typically been the case in the past.”Opposition Republicans delivered a stinging blow to President Barack Obama, capturing the US House of Representatives in the country’s mid-term elections.

The 31-year-old’s win came in spite of figures released last week that showed only 530,000 viewers were tuning in to watch her on the troubled breakfast show – a third of the audience for its BBC rival, Breakfast.Among the other winners at the star-studded Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women Of The Year event at the Banqueting House in London, was Doctor Who beauty Karen Gillan, who took home the top actress award.Fellow redhead Nicola Roberts of Girls Aloud – who launched her own make-up range for pale skin this year – won the fashion award.Roberts’ bandmate Kimberley Walsh also attended the event – she was on a panel of celebrity judges who selected the winners.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a car with shotgun cartridges in the back seat was stolen from Leith. The silver Mercedes C Class 220 Sport was taken from a business property on North Leith Sands sometime between 1.30pm and 2.30pm on Monday, November 1.A number of shotgun cartridges were also taken, as they were in the back of the car among the owner’s hunting gear. HEARTS legend Gary Mackay and former Hibs star Mickey Weir are uniting in a bid to kick sectarianism out of Scottish football. The two ex-players will be joined by former Rangers midfielder Derek Ferguson as part of a panel discussion at the Show Bigotry the Red Card event.Part of the Show Racism the Red Card campaign, the event takes place at the home of Spartans FC on November 18 from 6.30pm.

Organisers said the main aim of the evening was to promote debate on the issue of sectarianism throughout Scottish football through the viewing of a new DVD entitled Rivals not Enemies. The showing of the film will be followed by a question and answer session with the panel of experts.Yiva Haglund, of Zero Waste Scotland, said: “We’re delighted that so many organisations and groups have already signed up for this year’s European Week for Waste Reduction. “We hope that many more will join in by organising an action or event in Edinburgh.”A 28-YEAR-OLD mother of two from the US state of Michigan whose bleak prospects and resilient attitude prompted a handwritten note from president Barack Obama has sold the memento for $7,000 (￡4,350).

It also confirmed that Scotland’s planning rate for new onshore farms had dropped significantly in the past year – to 63 per cent from 95 per cent the previous year – as campaign groups opposed to the plans blocked or delayed development. “I am delighted to announce – and open for business – Scotland’s ￡70m National Renewables Infrastructure Fund,” Mr Salmond said yesterday. “Together with Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise, we are determined to stimulate the market and act decisively to trigger vital capital investment and launch the next phase of Scotland’s renewables revolution.”The money – which will be made available over the next four years – will be used to strengthen port and manufacturing facilities and supply chain provision for manufacturing offshore wind turbines.

Niall Stuart, chief executive of Scottish Renewables, welcomed the fund. He said: “This fund could be key to unlocking the thousands of jobs that offshore wind manufacturing could create in Scotland, and make all the difference between landing major inward investors and growing a strong Scottish supply chain or being left to watch opportunities being snapped up by other parts of the UK and Europe.”Scottish Enterprise Chief Executive Lena Wilson added: “Companies from around the world already recognise the scale of the opportunity and Scotland’s competitive advantage.? WWF warns oil will prevail in clash with wind over leasing”We need to build upon this by supporting the development of port and manufacturing locations with their owners and supply chain companies so that Scotland can reap the full rewards from this significant economic opportunity.”

Mr Salmond also repeated criticism of the UK government’s refusal to give Scottish ministers immediate access to a ￡191m fund for renewable energy purposes – which he claims would lead to a corresponding cut in the Scottish block grant.At the launch of its report, The State of the Industry, RenewableUK warned that communities were missing out of “billions of pounds” of potential investment from the windfarm schemes that are not being approved.”I was pleasantly surprised at the statistics showing how much investment can be generated,” said Director of Policy Gordon Edge. “I think people were previously of the opinion that onshore wind brought nothing in terms of investment.”

First Minister Alex Salmond announced the National Renewables Infrastructure Fund at the annual conference of RenewableUK, the industry body for green energy firms.Hundreds of delegates gathered at the SECC in Glasgow for the three-day conferenceADVERTISEMENT.The organisation yesterday published a report claiming that communities take in an average of ￡7.9 million for every wind farm development in the form of jobs, land rents and business rates. A HOLIDAY home, a cinema restoration, a community centre and a cottage extension are all in the running to be named Scotland’s best building. ? One of the favourites to win: Fiscavaig House on the Isle of SkyeOrganisers of the nation’s flagship architectural contest have also shortlisted the offices of a housing association, a university’s new science building, and a health centre for the honour.

The nominations will be competing with several flagship projects, including the refurbishment of Dundee’s main cultural building, the new visitor centre at Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden and the conversion of Glasgow’s Briggait fishmarket building into an arts centre.The annual ￡25,000 Doolan Prize, set up in memory of leading Edinburgh architect Andrew Doolan, who died six years ago, will be unveiled at the Scottish Parliament by culture minister Fiona Hyslop later this month. Organisers at the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland say they believe the latest developments in Scotland rank alongside the best anywhere in Europe. An expert panel has shortlisted 11 separate projects. One of the favourites, the timber-built Fiscavaig House, on the Isle of Skye, built by local architects Rural Design, was named best new private dwelling house in September’s Saltire Housing Design Awards. The Hippodrome, in Bo’ness, Scotland’s first purpose-built cinema dating back to 1912, reopened last year after a painstaking ￡2 million refurbishment.

Also shortlisted is a terrace of affordable homes in Dunoon, with a design is based on Brighton’s beach-huts; the new medical and biological science building at St Andrews University; the ￡11 million refurbishment of the McManus Art Gallery and Museum in Dundee, and the John Hope Gateway, the ￡16 million new visitor centre at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh.Professor Stephen Blackmore, regius keeper at the Botanics said: “Since it opened to the public in October last year, the John Hope Gateway has received more than 600,000 visits. The building is one of the finest entrances to a botanic garden in the world and is an asset to Scotland and the citizens of Edinburgh.”RIAS president David Dunbar said: “We are delighted that Scotland has once again come up with such a strong list of submissions.

He refused to apologise yesterday for his fondness for young women and denied doing anything improper, after the case of the girl known as Ruby Rubacuori – “Ruby Heartbreaker” – filled Italian newspapers last week and opposition MPs called for him toADVERTISEMENT step down.”As always, I work without interruption and if occasionally I happen to look a beautiful girl in the face, it’s better to like beautiful girls than to be gay,” he told a meeting at a motorcycle industry show in Milan.”You should be completely reassured about the government and about the fact that it’s a government that still has a majority that intends to govern until the end of its term,” he said.Mr Berlusconi, 74, has brushed off scandals over women, prostitutes and parties in the past but has been under unusual pressure since newspapers last week carried reports about the teenager, who attended parties at his villa at Arcore near Milan.

The Corriere della Sera daily reported details of a phone call it said Mr Berlusconi made to a Milan police chief on Ruby’s behalf when she was detained over a theft of 3,000 in May, raising questions of whether he improperly intervened after wrongly telling the officer she was a relative of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.Mr Berlusconi says he helped Ruby – a Moroccan runaway whose real name is reported by newspapers to be Karima El Mahroug – but he denies exerting any improper pressure on police officers.Mr Berlusconi said: “You will see in the end that nothing else happened apart from an act of solidarity by the prime minister, which I would have been ashamed not to do.”But even centre-right commentators in Mr Berlusconi’s family-owned newspapers have criticised him for intervening in a possible criminal case.In an interview with the weekly Oggi, the teenager, who has since turned 18, said she received 7,000 from Mr Berlusconi after a party in February, which she attended with a group of ten other young women.She has denied having sex with him and said she had told him she was 24 when they met.

The “bunga bunga” case – so called after a sexual reference in the punchline of one of Mr Berlusconi’s favourite lewd jokes – has sparked a media storm in Italy.A MASSIVE fundraising drive has been launched by volunteers and staff at a city arts venue to save it from closure. Employees and customers of the Forest Cafe have launched a campaign to buy the building, which is being sold for ￡1.1 million.The venue was placed on the market by owner Edinburgh University Settlement (EUS), which went bankrupt last week.ThADVERTISEMENTe charity, which operated a number of community learning programmes and commercial enterprises including the Roxy Art House, has made most of its 40 staff redundant and has not even paid them for the last month they worked.The Forest Cafe, which houses a grand hall, cafe, art gallery, studio, photography dark room, a poster printer and a hair salon, has become home to award-winning arts and theatre groups.