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ShowThe Prime Minister's former Communications Chief Andy Coulson has said he will vigorously defend himself from perjury allegations having been charged last night by Strathclyde Police. In other news: A highly sensitive debate has now begun at the Scottish Parliament into whether more children should be taken away from parents with chaotic lifestyles and placed into care. Lawyers acting for convicted killer Nat Fraser have confirmed they're considering grounds for an appeal. Evan Wilson was just hours old when he was diagnosed with liver cancer - making him one of the youngest people in the country to have the disease. A teenage girl has died in a car crash in Midlothian. Nineteen year old Lisa Anne Laurie from Innerleithen was killed after she lost control of her car and came off the road. Scotland's population reached its highest ever total last year. The National Records show the estimated population was just over 5 million and 250,000 by mid-2011. The Scottish Parliament is expected to back independence for the first time in its history. The programme for the sixty-sixth Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been launched. The leader of Glasgow city council says he's predicting that Hampden will be filled with the roar of Olympic football fans despite reports that over a hundred and eighty thousand tickets for the matches are still unsold. A motorist who lost control of his car driving at motorway speeds in a 30mph city limit has been found guilty of causing the death of a pedestrian by dangerous driving. Rail signal workers in the Stirling area are set to walk out at midnight tonight in 48 hours of industrial action in a dispute over rosters. And in sports: Andy Murray defied chronic back pain to come back from a set down and defeat Jarkko Nieminen in his second round match at the French Open. The SPL say it'll be almost another 3 weeks before they give any update on their investigation into allegations that Rangers paid players outwith contracts lodged with the football authorities. Scotland's under 21s could go top of their European qualifying group with a win in Bulgaria tonight. Andy Robinson has called Glasgow Warriors centre Alex Dunbar and Edinburgh's Stuart McInally to his Scotland squad for the tour of the southern hemisphere. 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.
