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ShowStrathclyde Police have been instructed to carry out a full criminal investigation into Craig Whyte's takeover at Rangers and his financial management of the club as it plunged towards administration. The Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon attacked today's launch as offering nothing new, pledging that the Yes camp will fight a positive campaign on what independence means for ordinary Scots. RBS boss Stephen Hester says the bank will consider compensation on a case by case basis after days of chaos caused by computer problems. The mother of a nine-year-old girl left seriously scarred after a man hit her with a bottle has appealed for anyone with information about her daughter's attacker to come forward. A carer has pled guilty to raping an elderly dementia patient at a care home in South Lanarkshire. Stephen Murray from Hamilton also admitted at the High Court in Glasgow to sexually assaulting two other elderly women at Hilton Gardens Care Home in Ashgill where he worked. A teenager from Shetland has admitted hacking into the websites of the CIA and the Serious Organised Crime Agency. At Southwark Crown Court, 19-year-old Jake Davis, along with co-accused Ryan Cleary, pled guilty to launching the cyber attacks on major institutions in the United States and the UK. A flight is on standby to bring a cancer-stricken Scots child stranded in Mexico home to die. The Scottish Government is to shake up the way female offenders are dealt with by the criminal justice system. Another dramatic day for Rangers - Aberdeen Chairman Stewart Milne becoming the 5th SPL Chairman saying he won't vote Rangers newco into the SPL next season. A Fife man has been convicted of raping a mother of three after meeting her at a nightclub in Dunfermline. Mohamed Ben El Hassan invited the woman and her sister to a party then launched his attack in a hotel room in January 2011. Around a thousand primary school pupils from across Edinburgh have been taking part in an Olympic-inspired event at Meadowbank today. Nominations for this years Scottish Childrens Book Awards were revealed this morning. Of the nine shortlisted books, five of the author's are from Edinburgh. This international version of STV News at Six is viewable world-wide. It has been edited for rights reasons, which also allows us to keep the programme online after the initial 24-hour broadcast window in the UK has passed. Viewers within the UK who want to watch the full episode 'as broadcast' should select the UK version of the programme.
