Good morning – here are today’s top 10 stories in Scotland:
Barbaric execution of Scots aid worker Khalil Dale by Taliban provokes outrage from friends & politicians (Daily Record)
Jack McConnell phone hacking evidence puts more pressure on Alex Salmond (Daily Telegraph)
Scottish council elections: SNP and Labour both claim polls lead(Scotsman)
Banking group announce more than 1,400 jobs losses across the country by 2015 (STV News)
Edinburgh University denies treating English students as a ‘cash cow’ (Daily Telegraph)
Scottish firms trail field in contracts for 2012 Olympics (Press & Journal)
‘Disabled not understood in Scotland’ (Herald)
Health chiefs probe claim dementia patients were left in care of a student while staff took a cigarette break (Daily Record)
PM’s policy is ‘immoral’ (Herald)
Gay marriage campaigns launched in Scotland (BBC Scotland)
For a full roundup of Scottish parliamentary business, check out today’s official Business Bulletin
Paris Gourtsoyannis
Paris joined Holyrood in September 2011, and became education correspondent in May 2012. Born in Canada into a Greek family, and raised in Belgium, he came to Scotland in 2005 to study at the University of Edinburgh, where he was involved with award-winning student publication The Journal. Before working at Holyrood, Paris contributed to the Edinburgh Evening News, the Guardian and Guardian Local, and interned at think-tank Demos. His beat takes in all areas of Scotland's education and skills sector, including early years, adult learning, and employability...