By Martin Hannan TRAVELLING is often a serious problem for business people with disabilities. If you have impaired sight or hearing, or wear a prosthetic limb or use a wheelchair, you will find life much more difficult than someone who is not disabled.

DOCTOR Who star David Tennant was left wishing he could really travel back in time after an embarrassing tape of an early audition turned up.

A PROPOSAL to develop 54 flats has been blocked over concerns it would put too much strain on local schools. The plans would have seen the development created in a vacant plot of land on Glasgow Road, Bathgate.

SCHOOLS Could role-play be the key to helping children understand the world? A school in rural Suffolk, where pupils learn by running imaginary organisations, certainly thinks so. Bill Hicks reports Like most of the best places of pilgrimage, Bealings School is difficult to find.

By MARK SMITH NETWORK Rail has appointed engineering consultancy Scott Wilson to finalise the designs for the GBP323m Airdrie-to-Bathgate rail link and its supporting infrastructure.