ABBA’S greatest hits collection has overtaken the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band to become the UK’s second-biggest selling album of all time, according to the Official Charts Company.

RELATIVES of a five-year-old British girl who drowned in a hotel pool in Egypt said yesterday that they are angry and hurt that more was not done to save her.

FOR more than a century its young recruits have been urged to “be prepared”. But now Scouts have been told they can expect to be arrested if they are found carrying a knife, even on a campsite.

DAVID Cameron last night gave his backing to Lord Feldman after the Tory chairman denied being responsible for alleged comments describing grassroots party activists as “swivel-eyed loons”.

THE G7 group of industrialised nations has agreed that there must be collective action against tax evasion and avoidance, George Osborne has said.

X Factor judge Louis Walsh has announced plans to form a new boy band to rival One Direction.

STRUGGLING post offices are facing an “extremely uncertain future” because of falling incomes and a lack of new work, according to a survey.

NICOLA Sturgeon will warn Scottish voters tomorrow that a “no” to independence next year is a “gamble” that will pave the way to a “bleak” future of poorer children, longer working hours and a broken welfare state, as she turns her fire back on those supporting the UK.

SNP MPs will reject Eurosceptic Tory moves to introduce an early EU referendum that would take place before Scotland had time to achieve independence from the rest of the UK.

IT WAS an addiction which threatened to bring his half-century of stardom to an abrupt and tragic end. But Rod Stewart has revealed he still relies on the steroids which almost cost him his life.

ONE of Scotland’s leading design companies has accused a high-street giant of creating a “rip-off” of one of its most famous patterns.

GORDON Brown will return to front-line political campaigning tomorrow by spearheading Labour’s bid to keep Scotland within the UK, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.

DISGRACED television ­presenter Stuart Hall has been accused of avoiding a payout to his child abuse victims by signing over his £1.2 million house to wife, it was reported yesterday.

THE days of the all-inclusive air fare are numbered, as traditional airlines move towards the introduction of budget-style extra charges, experts have warned passengers.

ONE in five households were forced to use their savings to buy food last month, amid spiralling bills and squeezed household incomes, a report has revealed.

VOTERS want more certainty about how the big issues will be handled by both sides before the independence referendum and want the Scottish and UK governments to hold talks before next year’s poll, according to data published today.

PRIME Minister David Cameron has been urged to ditch his Etonian advisers and honour his pledge to hold a referendum on EU membership to counter the appeal of the UK Independence Party in the aftermath of council elections in England.

THE UK government is planning a “relentless” offensive on the impact that Scottish independence will have on household finances as the marathon campaign marks 500 days to go until the referendum.

Deputy Commons Speaker Nigel Evans has spoken for the first time about his arrest on suspicion of rape and sexual assault, saying the claims are “completely false”.

Coronation Street actress Liz Dawn who became a household name as Vera Duckworth has suffered a heart attack, it has been reported.