As good news stories go, it doesn't get much better. Edinburgh is to be the first city in the UK to get a pioneering CT scanner which will capture 3-D images of entire organs in the blink of an eye, using 80% less radiation than conventional scanners. The Aquilion One scanner, which will assist doctors to diagnose cancer and heart disease at a much earlier stage, is part of a £4m bequest from the Royal Bank of Scotland.
This technology is so cutting edge it makes the space shuttle look like the Sinclair C5. But this is Scotland where we can spot the cloud in the most dazzling of silver linings. Thus has the story of the RBS's generosity turned into a row about the