9am news briefing

A JEALOUS lover repeatedly stabbed her boyfriend before having sex with him on their bloodstained bed, a court heard.

Charlene Henderson accused partner Gary Stewart of cheating on her after she found suspicious text messages on his mobile phone.

In the row which followed, she grabbed a kitchen knife from her bedside table and plunged the five inch blade into him. The couple then had intercourse and fell asleep.

Henderson , of Blackridge, West Lothian, admitted repeatedly stabbing Mr Stewart on the head and body at her former home in Hillside Drive on June 19 last year.

She was put on probation for two years and ordered her to be tagged on an electronic curfew for six months.

• AROUND 250 passengers were evacuated from Edinburgh Airport yesterday evening following a fire alert.

The passengers were kept out of the terminal for 10 minutes while enquiries were carried out.

It was discovered to be a false alarm.

• A FLAT was left badly damaged after a fire ripped through the property.

Around 15 firefighters were called to the ground-floor flat, at McLeod Crescent, Prestonpans, at 3am this morning.

Residents escaped the property before Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service arrived. The cause of the fire is currently unknown.

• THE HISTORIC former home of economist Adam Smith will become a major tourist attraction in the Old Town if a controversial revamp goes ahead, a public inquiry has heard.

Jim Lowrie, the city council's planning convenor, predicted that Panmure House would become a destination in its own right if Heriot-Watt University was allowed to open a new business and conference centre there.