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Former British touring car champion Gordon Shedden says the late Colin McRae should be remembered as "the best ever".

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It is 20 years since McRae famously won the world rally championship and a special invitation event is being held in Fife to mark the occasion and honour his memory.

McRae was killed in a helicopter crash in 2007.

Shedden is one of several racing stars, present and past, who are converging on Knockhill racing circuit on Saturday and Sunday for the McRae Rally Challenge.

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A Star Wars fan is to attempt to walk to the summit of Britain's highest mountain while dressed in his Imperial stormtrooper armour.

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Ashley Broomhall's Ben Nevis trek will raise money for Cancer Research UK.

Mr Broomhall, a member of Star Wars costuming club the 501st UK Garrison, set himself the peak challenge after his mother was diagnosed with cancer.

He has already done a walk up the 1,335ft (407m) hill The Wrekin in Shropshire in his stormtrooper kit.

Police are treating the death of a woman whose body was found at a house in Renfrewshire as suspicious.

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A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said officers were called to the house in Cowal Drive, Linwood, near Paisley, at about 14:30 on Thursday.

Part of the street was cordoned off while forensics officers carried out their investigation.

The spokeswoman said a port mortem examination would be carried out in due course to establish how the woman died.

The appointment of Andrew Dunlop, The View's lead singer Kyle Falconer in rehab and talks between Nicola Sturgeon and David Cameron all feature on today's front pages.

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The University of the Highlands and Islands will open the doors at its new £100m campus in Inverness today.

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It will house some of the university's research facilities and Inverness College.

The development is also aiming to attract a range of other research companies, particularly those in the field of medicine and science.

An instrument that allows its user to hear and play a road bridge's "song" could be brought to Scotland.

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Called the Human Harp, it was clipped to New York City's Brooklyn Bridge in 2013 as part of celebrations marking the crossing's 130th anniversary.

Artist Di Mainstone, whose team includes Edinburgh industrial designer David Ross, has plans for a tour of the UK, Europe and the USA.

She hopes bridges in Scotland could feature in the tour.

Police in Glasgow have carried out a stop-and-question operation in the north of the city - exactly one week after a man was run over by a car and then shot.

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Officers spoke to drivers and passers-by about the attack, which happened on Royston Road at about 18:30 last Thursday.

They were also investigating a separate incident in which a man was seriously injured in a barber shop in Springburn Way.

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Stephen Jardine sits in for John on today's programme, which will be taking your thoughts on;

• Are teachers being hounded off social media and could they make themselves more accessible?

• Should there be more controls on elderly drivers?

• Why are Scots so reluctant to embrace the 'Death Bed Choir'?

• Why are the younger generation four times more likely to be off work sick?

Send us your thoughts via text on 80295 or call 0500 92 95 00.

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John Swinney told Good Morning Scotland that the SNP were not planning a second referendum.

He said: "We don't have a mandate for a second referendum. We didn't seek one in the United Kingdom general election.

"We have set out the process by which Scotland could have a referendum on independence. That is a political party - the SNP - would have to put that in our manifesto, for a Scottish Parliament election.

"That is an issue that the party will determine and consider in the run up to the 2016 election.

"We are not planning a second independence referendum. We respect the outcome of the referendum last September."

Network Rail workers are to stage a 24-hour strike from 5pm on bank holiday Monday in a row over pay.

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The UK-wide action will see signallers, maintenance staff and station workers, walk out from 25 May on the busy holiday weekend.

The move follows a decisive vote for strikes from RMT union members.

Network Rail have previously said they would do anything possible to keep services going if strikes go ahead.

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Queueing traffic on exit slip #M77 Southbound at J3 A727 (Nitshill Road). In the roadwork area. Due to lane closures on the exit slip.

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Mr Swinney also outlined what the SNP are hoping to achieve from the meeting with David Cameron.

He said: "We welcome the additional powers that come from the Smith Commission report.

"We argued in the election for there to be a greater range of powers available to the Scottish Parliament - powers over the minimum wage, greater powers over welfare, greater power over business taxation and national insurance.

" These are some of the areas we want to advance in the dialogue with the prime minister."

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Deputy First Minister John Swinney said David Cameron had to implement the Smith Commission in full.

He said: "Yesterday, there was a very substantial intervention in this debate by a cross-party committee of the Scottish Parliament which indicated that the proposals from the UK government did not implement Smith in the spirit or the substance of the report that had been published.

"The very first thing the prime minister has to do is to respond positively to those cross-party concerns, expressed by five political parties, that his existing proposals did not even implement what the Smith Commission reported on.

"Once the Smith Commission reported, what the UK government have then translated that into - in terms of legislation - doesn't even implement the final conclusions of the Smith Commission report.

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Glasgow winger Sean Lamont wants a league title to his name before he considers retirement.

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"I've been going at it for a long time," said the 34-year-old before Ulster's visit on Saturday, which will help determine Pro12 semi-final places.

Glasgow are second in the table, on the same points tally (70) as leaders Ospreys and third-placed Munster.

"A big title, a league title, before I have to retire would be great," he said.

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Sam Ball leaves the amateur ranks behind on Friday as Greenock hosts a professional boxing show for the first time since the 1960s.

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The home town welterweight has eight Scottish national titles before losing in last year's final to Josh Taylor, who went on to win Commonwealth gold.

Ball, 19, will make his paid debut against Oldham's Ashley Mayall in his home town.

"After the Commonwealth Games qualifiers I wasn't wanting to wait four years for another go," he said.

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BBC Scotland transport correspondent

Rail workers to strike on bank holiday Monday http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk.

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#DALWHINNIE -all lanes open on the #A9 -Northbound after the A889 junction....one lane was partially blocked till about 0730.

Brian Taylor
Political editor, Scotland

Brian Taylor says the meeting between the two leaders will be the start of a process. He told Hayley Millar on Good Morning Scotland:

• "It's a question of calculation for Mr Cameron, as it is for Nicola Sturgeon."

• "How far can they make concessions and what level of deal can be reached? The starting point for the prime minister is very much, deliver what was in Smith - that's what's been agreed."

• "He (David Cameron) is saying that any changes to Smith have to come about through parliamentary process. That's tabling amendments in the House of Commons. Given that he has an overall majority, that keeps the power very firmly in his hands. Nicola Sturgeon takes a different approach. She says there should be the involvement of Civic Scotland and discussion and debate in Scotland."

• "It is challenging for David Cameron but it is also challenging for Nicola Sturgeon - what is the exit strategy if the prime minister says 'no'?

• "Does she threaten a second referendum? She has said that she is reluctant to do so and it is not currently in her plans."

Listen to the programme live here.

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Lesley Riddoch said she doesn't believe the prospect of a second independence referendum will be mentioned at the meeting between Mr Cameron and Ms Sturgeon later today.

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"I think Nicola Sturgeon meant it when she said the election was not about another referendum," the broadcaster told the BBC News Channel. "She said there has to be some sort of material change in the outlook of Scots before she would be seeking to go for that again."

Ms Riddoch believes issues such as the stymieing of attempts to have more powers for Scotland, an attempt to leave the EU if Scottish voters are against it, and the abolition of the Human Rights Act may result in that material change.