By Frank Urquhart A LEADING planning consultant, speaking for environmental groups opposing Donald Trump's GBP 1 billion golf resort plan, yesterday launched an astonishing personal attack on the American property tycoon.

By ROBBIE DINWOODIE CHIEF SCOTTISH POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT FORMER Liberal leader Lord Steel is being asked to reconvene his party's commission into how devolution can be extended, amid growing fears that Gordon Brown may undermine the current review on the issue.

A North-east MSP is holding urgent talks with Aberdeen University today over concerns he and party colleagues have about the city's new pounds15million dental school.

Students enrolling in a new north-east dental school this autumn will have to pay their own tuition fees, it emerged yesterday. Some 20 people undertaking the four-year postgraduate course in Aberdeen will have to stump up pounds6,940 each.

By ROBBIE DINWOODIE CHIEF SCOTTISH POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT NHS waiting times returned as a political issue yesterday when Liberal Democrats claimed a patient had been struck off and denied treatment in order to meet targets.