Many in the industry would question their reliance on TV campaigns which cost money and it's questionable whether people actually see them. "Changes in TV mean that fewer people watch commercial terrestrial TV and the new satellite and digital channels are usually impossible to get regional-specific ads on. "There is little doubt in the industry that if the SNP or Lib Dems got in, advertising spend would be substantially cut." But he added: "In a way, Tesco has it easier in that it's easier to measure whether things are working, you're either attracting more customers or you're not. "The Executive tackles issues in which success is hard to measure or might take years." The Scottish Conservatives' finance spokesman, Derek Brownlee, said the Lib-Lab pact had little to show after spending a "fortune" on advertising over the past eight years.

WiebeTech SilverSATA V

WiebeTech's SilverSATA V is a compact and stylish five-bay RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks). It delivers some impressive data transfer rates and shows the promise of port multiplication in the SATA II specification.

In the original SATA I specification, each hard drive needed its own dedicated data cable. The SATA II protocol added a port multiplication feature that lets multiple drives connect via a single SATA cable—a clever use of resources since it takes about five drives to saturate the 300 MBps throughput that is available with SATA II.

300 Leads Saturn Awards Nominations

Leading the nominations this year is 300 with 10 nominations. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix follows close behind with 9 nominations and Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is represented with 8 nominations. A trio of fantasty adventures: The Golden Compass, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Spider-Man 3 received 4 nominations each, while The Bourne Ultimatum, Eastern Promises, Enchanted, Grindhouse, Stephen King's The Mist, No Country for Old Men, Stardust and There Will Be Blood each received 3 nominations. Paramount Pictures leads the studio in nominations this year with a total of 22 (combining the releases of Paramount, DreamWorks/Paramount, and Paramount Vantage). Following closely behind is Warner Bros. with 21 nominations. Buena Vista received a total of 10 nominations, with Sony Pictures capturing 9 nominations.

Driver caught going 110 mph in Wash.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw this blue streak streaking down on the freeway on southbound 405. That really got our attention as he was passing a lot of traffic at a high rate of speed." Davis said his colleague in the plane used aircraft marks on the freeway to calculate the driver's speed and clocked the man at 104 mph during the first check. The driver continued to speed up to 110 mph.Traffic was light, Davis said, and the driver was driving in the carpool lane with a passenger. "He was able to get a nice long straight stretch and he really let it have it," Davis said. "I'm sure all the cars around were wondering, 'Gosh, where's a trooper when you need one?' Well, there was a trooper when they needed one -- we were straight up in the air watching this guy drive like a jerk."As the vehicle began weaving in and out of traffic, Davis directed troopers on the ground to the vehicle, and they were able to stop him near the Northeast 124th Street exit.

Myth of BBC's 'made in Scotland'

Other programmes, including Film 2008 and the children's shows Raven: Secret Temple and Shoebox Zoo, are also classed as BBC Scotland productions, despite a tenuous connection.The practice of over-inflating the figures came in evidence to the Scottish Broadcasting Commission, which yesterday published "key points" from its inquiry so far. It said: "There is a practice of labelling some network programmes as 'Scottish productions' when there is very little financial or creative connection to Scotland."The producers' trade association, Pact, identified 18 programmes which it classed as London productions yet which had BBC regional offices credited in the end titles.The programmes, which are not filmed in Scotland and bring little financial benefit to the nation, often have only nominal involvement from BBC Scotland employees.