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ShowTributes have been paid tonight to a woman from Edinburgh, who's been killed in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan. Jeni Ayris, who was forty-seven, died along with eleven others when a car packed with explosives drove into a minibus in Kabul yesterday. In other news: Claims by Iain Duncan Smith that an independent Scotland couldn't afford to pay its welfare bill have been slammed as "offensive rubbish" by the First Minister. The Work and Pensions Secretary said the break-up of the union would see services cut and taxes go up. Alex Salmond said the UK Cabinet Secretary had got his sums wrong and dismissed the claims as nonsensical. Plans to build a replacement Sick Kids hospital in Edinburgh have finally been given the go-ahead. The project, which is now four years behind schedule, will see a one-hundred and fifty-million pound facility built at Little France. The Scottish Government says it's confident there won't be any further delays but critics say patients shouldn't have to wait until 2017. "Justice and a burial for my son". The hopes tonight of a Perthshire mother, as forensic experts continue to excavate a site where it's thought her son was buried thirteen years ago. Tricia Bremner has visited the field in the Carse of Gowrie every week since 2007, when a confession from her son's killer led police to the area. The STUC are demanding that Finance Secretary John Swinney dump his policy of freezing pay in the public sector as he prepares to outline spending plans to Parliament tomorrow. Business leaders are also hoping he can inject more money into the economy to combat the current high levels of unemployment. And in sports: Hearts could be hit with a signing ban when the SPL board gathers tomorrow. The club failed to pay all of their first team players their August salaries on time this month. Football's world governing body UEFA also confirmed today the club is the subject of an investigation over an alleged pitch invasion during last month's Europa league trip to Anfield. Celtic kickstart their Champions League group stage campaign against Benfica this evening in Glasgow. Neil Lennon will be minus at least 3 first team players - Georgias Samaras, Joe Ledley and Beram Kayal are all injured, but the Celtic Manager is confident his squad is strong enough to compete against last season's runner's up in the Portugese League. Ally McCoist has once again admitted his team's perfomance wasn't good enough as the Ibrox side crashed out of the Ramsden's Cup on penalties to Queen of the South last night. 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.
