By MICHAEL HOWIE HOME AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT POLICE have swooped on the homes of nearly 200 children identified on internet sites such as Bebo, glorifying gang violence, drinking and taking drugs.

A BOYS Brigade captain revealed as a child porn pervert in the Sunday Mail is this morning facing 20 months in jail. Ross McKinnon, 33, was snared when police swooped on his Falkirk home and uncovered 31,129 images of boys and girls - some younger than 10 - on his computer.

By GAVIN MADELEY A COUPLE caught selling 'terror bomb kits' from a website are at the centre of an international investigation into the production of the drug 'crystal meth'.

Integration needs, maintenance costs drive changeover THE CENTRAL Scotland Police operation is removing Sun Microsystems Inc.'s StarOffice productivity software from about 400 PCs and switching to Microsoft Corp.'s Office system.

MICROSOFT'S grip on a key sector of public service contracts in Scotland was completed yesterday when Central Scotland Police announced that it was choosing the firm's software over its current clients, Linux and StarOffice.