Week ahead

Published on Saturday 30 January 2010 19:10

TODAY The deadline will expire for taxpayers to send their forms in to HM Revenue & Customs.

MPs will have until today to appeal against demands for them to repay expenses.

Computer users are being urged to switch off for world internet-free day.

MONDAY

Former cricketer Sir Ian Botham will open the salmon season on the River Teith, near Callander.

Aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious will arrive at Rosyth dockyard on the Forth for a 40 million maintenance and upgrade programme.

The public inquiry in to the C diff outbreak at Vale of Leven Hospital will begin at Dumbarton Sheriff Court.

TUESDAY

Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy MP will make a speech to the left-leaning think-tank Progress in London.

The deadline will expire for Cadbury shareholders to approve the chocolate-maker's takeover by America's Kraft.

Groundhog Day will take place in the Pennsylvanian town of Punxsutawney.

WEDNESDAY

The Scottish Parliament will debate the government's Budget Bill.

A man already convicted of throwing a coin at Rangers defender David Weir during a game against Hamilton Accies last February will be sentenced. Daryl Harvey, 21, will appear at Hamilton Sheriff Court.

Celtic player Aiden McGeady will appear in court in Glasgow on speeding charges.

The Bank of England's monetary policy committee will meet to decide on interest rates – and whether to "print" more money under its policy of quantitative easing.

THURSDAY

Strathclyde Police's ruling authority will discuss whether to issue Tasers to patrol officers in the West of Scotland.

BBC presenter Neil Oliver, below, will open the Scottish Caravan & Outdoor Leisure Show at the SECC in Glasgow.

Sir Thomas Legg, the head of the inquiry into Westminster MPs' expenses, is scheduled to launch his review report.

A full asylum request hearing for Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt is scheduled to take place in Boston. Zeituni Onyango had been living in the country illegally.

FRIDAY

Nuclear industry bosses will hold a major event in Wick to discuss the impact of the closure and decommissioning of the Dounreay plant in Caithness.

Struggling British Airways will release its traffic figures.

The charity Samaritans will mark Stress Down Day by asking people to give their feet a treat and wear their slippers to work in return for a donation.

SATURDAY

An exhibition marking the 25th anniversary of EastEnders will open at the National Media Museum in Bradford, Yorkshire.

Finance ministers from the G7 group of industrialised nations will meet in Canada to discuss the world economy.

The Six Nations rugby championships kick off. Scotland's opener is against France at Murrayfield.