By Kate Foster A DOCTOR who was suspended from his job after giving sleeping pills to a suicidal patient has revealed he plans to help the campaign to legalise euthanasia.

VOLUNTARY Euthanasia, as highlighted by Margo MacDonald MSP, (July 16) deserves full and considered assessment for those patients who are suffering from an incurable, debilitating and prolonged illness.

By Andrea Mullaney The Thirties In Colour, BBC4 Margo MacDonald - My Right To Die, BBC1 IT'S THE 1930s, but not as we think we know them.

By Stephen McGinty THE scene is the epitome of suburbia. An elderly woman with the merest hint of a blue rinse stands at the kitchen table and rolls out a clear plastic bag which the casual viewer might assume is designed to hold a chicken or turkey but is, in fact, for the human head.

By Lyndsay Moss; Lindsay McIntosh PRIVATE donations of health equipment used by the NHS should be subject to guidelines amid fears of a two-tier service, an MSP has urged. It follows the gifting of one of the world's best scanners to Edinburgh by Royal Bank of Scotland.