Fury at £100k NHS salaries

HEALTH boards in Scotland, including NHS Lothian, are paying hundreds of staff more than £100,000 a year, with many workers earning more than First Minister Alex Salmond.

In Lothian 455 staff earn more than 100,000 and 138 more than Mr Salmond's 140,000 but the country's biggest health board, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has almost double that number, with 893.

The figures were released under Freedom of Information legislation to the Labour Party.

The party's health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said pay levels across the country's 22 boards were "astonishing" and that it was impossible to justify such big salaries when 4000 job losses are planned.