By Jane Bradley SCOTSYS is to shut its Glasgow retail store as shoppers flock to Apple's own flagship shop in Scotland's biggest city.

By VIVIENNE NICOLL PLANS to double the size of Glasgow's Buchanan Galleries will cost GBP300million and create 2500 jobs. The massive investment was revealed today - just weeks after the shopping centre's bosses won approval for the expansion.

By GERRY BRAIDEN THE queues to be first to testdrive the nano, the shuffle or discuss problems with a salaried genius are expected to begin around midnight.

By MARK SMITH APPLE, the iconic US computer and iPod maker, has revealed it will open the first Apple Store in Scotland - in the heart of Glasgow city centre - one week from today, on August 25, amid what is expected to be a fanfare party atmosphere.

By GORDON THOMSON IMAGINE the centre of Glasgow transformed into the country's biggest pedestrian zone with no cars or buses, vans or lorries. Shoppers and workers hop on and off electric trams or use an underground network of moving walkways to get to and from the train and bus stations.