A group of British scientists are getting ready to create a digital model of Mount Rushmore by using laser scanning that would help recreate the monument if it were ever damaged.

GLASGOW School of Art has installed a wind turbine on its campus - the first in the city. The turbine - 6.5 metres high - has been erected opposite the Mackintosh Building, on the 10-storey Newberry Tower at Garnethill.

By PHIL MILLER ARTS CORRESPONDENT A GIFT of more than GBP800,000 has been left to the Glasgow School of Art by a former student. Clark Fyfe, who studied architecture at the school in the 1930s, met his future wife, Grace, there and went on to become the county architect for Ayrshire.

"ART students broke years of tradition to protest over fears that their annual degree show is under threat. Undergraduates at the Glasgow School of Art usually celebrate the end of their degrees with a class photograph on the steps of the Mackintosh building.

By JAMES MORGAN THE annual degree show at Glasgow School of Art is under threat because of industrial action by teaching staff. Fine art students have been told they must either abandon their degree show, or have their work graded by tutors who may be unfamiliarwith their artistic discipline.