9am Briefing: Police probe continues after body found on beach

INVESTIGATIONS were continuing today after a body was discovered on a beach near North Berwick.

A member of the public discovered the body near Dirleton's Renaissance Club in Cowden Hill Drive around 10:15am yesterday.

The grim find came just one day after the family of missing Musselburgh woman Elizabeth McVey made an emotional appeal for her to get in touch.

Tributes to crash victim

TRIBUTES were paid today to a teenage girl killed when a coach taking pupils on a school trip plunged into a river in severe weather.

Natasha Paton, from Cleghorn, South Lanarkshire, who would have been 18 next week, died and several of her friends were hurt when the bus skidded off a bridge into a river during a snowstorm.

The Lanark Grammar School pupils had just set off on an excursion to Alton Towers theme park in Staffordshire when the coach went out of control yesterday morning.

Woman in hospital after fire

A WOMAN was taken to hospital with burns to her hands and face following a fire in Musselburgh.

The 26-year-old woman injured herself trying to put out a chip pan fire inside a house on Champigny Court shortly before 8:40pm last night.

Paramedics took the woman to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for treatment.

Fresh strike woes for rail users

A SECOND week of strike action is set to hit the region's railways after Easter.

Signallers and maintenance workers across the UK were already due to stage four days of action from next Tuesday.

And now ScotRail conductors will walk out for three days, from Monday to Wednesday the following week, overlapping with a strike by sleeper train managers from Tuesday to Thursday that week.

Members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union are angry at ScotRail's plan to employ ticket examiners rather than conductors as the second person on the Airdrie to Bathgate line, due to open in December.

Clegg due in Capital

LIBERAL Democrat leader Nick Clegg was due in the Capital today where he will discuss green jobs and apprenticeships ahead of next month's expected general election.

Mr Clegg will pay a visit to The Bike Station in Newington, a community-run group that also offers training in bike maintenance.

The Lib Dem leader is expected to talk to staff and volunteers about his party's proposals for a green, sustainable economy.