By IAN BELL NOW that all our heads are clear, having ingested the fact that the cabinet is, apparently, stuffed with penitent middleclass former dopeheads, we can proceed to a rational discussion of drugs, harm and society.

By John Allan LISTENING to Jack McConnell, Annabel Goldie and Nicol Stephen, I now realise what a debt we owe to our English neighbours. It appears they have been subsidising every person, business, building and project in Scotland for the past 300 years.

SCOTTISH Tory leader Annabel Goldie yesterday called for American- style yellow school buses, arguing that they would cut rush hour traffic, improve road safety and slash greenhouse gas emissions. The number of youngsters taken to school by car has increased by 250 per cent in 20 years.

TORY leader Annabel Goldie has called for Scotland to have an American-style yellow school bus scheme. She said sending children to school on buses would help cut traffic in the morning rush hour and claimed it would improve road safety.

By ROBBIE DINWOODIE CONSERVATIVES claimed yesterday that the NHS has got worse since they left office.