9am Briefing: Man dies after crashing car into garden

A MAN has died after crashing his car into a garden following a suspected heart attack.

The 51-year-old is believed to have suffered a heart attack while behind the wheel of his BMW causing him to veer off the road at Edinburgh's Drumbrae roundabout at around 6am yesterday.

His car crashed through a metal railing and a stone wall before stopping a few feet away from the front door of Meadow Place House at the corner of Meadow Place Road and Corstorphine Road.

The man was pronounced dead at the Royal Infirmary.

• SECURITY staff at a busy city shopping centre have reported a rare sighting of an otter.

The otter was caught on CCTV camera just yards from the front entrance to Cameron Toll Shopping Centre.

Centre manager Jim Riddell said security staff "couldn't believe their eyes".

• PROBLEMS over redeveloping its Tynecastle stadium are making it more likely Hearts will seriously consider a move to a proposed new 25,000-seater stadium in the west of the city.

Rangers owner Sir David Murray hopes Hearts and Edinburgh Rugby will agree to share the multi-use stadium near Edinburgh Park.

Hearts fans are expected to resist the move from Tynecastle, but the failure to relocate whisky storage facilities from a local distillery are expected to make it more difficult for the club to get planning permission for a new stand.

The city council is also putting pressure on the club to confirm its planned 4 million purchase of the former Tynecastle High School for future phases of redevelopment.

Hearts said it was "open minded" on the new venture. But a spokesman said: "Our first priority is to examine for the redevelopment of Tynecastle."

• EMERGENCY legislation was being rushed through the Scottish Parliament today after a UK Supreme Court ruling on the rights of suspects to legal representation.

The ruling, which found that the Scottish system allowing people to be held for six hours without access to a lawyer breached the European Convention on Human Rights, means almost 3,500 cases could now be appealed. Among the cases likely to be re-examined is that of Luke Mitchell, convicted of murdering his girlfriend Jodi Jones in Dalkeith in 2003. He was just 14 when he was quizzed by detectives without a lawyer.

His mother Corinne said supporters were already "looking into" the effect of the ruling. She said: "It's about time Scotland was dragged on to the same level as everyone else."

But Jodi's mother, Judy Jones, said: "A change in the law will affect a lot of cases. It's always a worry."