Breaking news, Tuesday 12 February

1.45pm: A million-pound campaign to promote the Scotch brand and restore public confidence in the beef, lamb and pork industry as the horsemeat scandal continues was launched by Scottish ministers today.

1.10pm: The Pentagon is considering scaling back its stockpile of drones for the first time, both to save money and adapt to changing security threats and an increased focus on Asia as the Afghanistan war winds down.

12.20pm: A couple accused of killing their six children in a house fire started the blaze as part of a “plan that went horribly wrong”, a court has heard.

11.25am: The wife of a former councillor has been questioned by detectives investigating the “cowardly and appalling” hate campaign against a female councillor which forced her to quit after only six months in office.

11.25am: Scottish pop star Emeli Sandé is to play second homecoming gig in Aberdeen after tickets for the first concert sold out within minutes last week.

11.20am: Scottish researchers have created a test for prostate cancer which could help give men a more accurate diagnosis.

11.00am: A second man has died after an accident at a concert venue last weekend involving shanty band Fisherman’s Friends.

10.15am: A woman was rushed to hospital today after jumping from the window of a top floor flat in a blazing tenement block in Aberdeen.

10.00am: A climber who plunged to his death in white-out blizzards in the Cairngorms has been named as 31-year-old Graham Connell from Yorkshire.

7.45am: Barclays are to cut 3700 jobs as part of a strategic overhaul.

7.30am: The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting in New York on North Korea’s nuclear test this afternoon.

On this day in 1999: US president Bill Clinton was acquitted by the Senate in an impeachment trial stemming from the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

On this day in 1997: An Iranian foundation increased the 1989 fatwa bounty for the murder of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, to £1.53 million.

On this day in 1689: Declaration of Rights in England, in which William and Mary were proclaimed King and Queen for life.