GLASGOW, Scotland, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Kwik Fit Insurance (KFI) reported record breaking sales this week which saw the leading insurance intermediary boast its strongest figures for a single day of trading since the company was established in 1995.

By ROBBIE DINWOODIE LABOUR leadership hopeful Andy Kerr has been dealt a devastating blow to his campaign by a party stalwart's accusation of "cant and humbug" over the former health minister's role in threatened hospital cuts.

A LANARKSHIRE town is in line to get a new multi-million health centre. The facility, earmarked for Main Street, Coatbridge, will combine NHS care with council services.

A PUBLIC swimming pool has been closed after a man was taken to hospital suffering from the potentially deadly Legionnaire's disease. Hamilton Water Palace in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, shut its pool and shower areas as a precaution after the diagnosis emerged.

A TEENAGE schoolboy has died of suspected meningitis, health chiefs said yesterday. The 14-year-old, from East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, died yesterday after being admitted to hospital. Although the cause of death is yet to be confirmed, doctors are treating it as the brain infection.