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£15 million announced for Scots technology programmes
Wendy Alexander, Scotland’s minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has announced £15 million for information and communications technology in further and higher education. The move follows first minister Henry McLeish's report on making Scotland a leader in the knowledge economy.

Cambridge denies discrimination
Cambridge University has denied that it rejected a sixth former because she had undergone heart and lung transplant surgery and her mother was a single parent. A Cambridge spokeswoman said Vikki Kent, 18, of Trentham, Staffordshire, was assessed on academic grounds alone.

Museum seeks a smell for robot T. rex
The Natural History Museum has taken delivery of a monster robot version of Tyrannosaurus rex . Experts are now researching an evocative smell for the three-quarters life-size monster before it goes on display on February 17.