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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.