Thomas McAnea and Raymond Dean masterminded the plot, which the trial judge said "struck at the root" of commercial and economic life. Three others were also sent to jail, and a sixth man was fined after the eight- week trial at the High Court in Edinburgh. The gang, all of Glasgow, who were the first in Scotland to use a hi- tech lithographic printer, planned to use the army of football fans heading south to unwittingly distribute the notes. Their printer, in a former joiner's workshop, could produce pounds 1m worth of fake English pounds 20 notes every couple of hours. Forgeries of Scottish pounds 5 notes, Danish Kroner notes, MoT certificates, duty-free vouchers and stamps were also produced.An anonymous tip-off put police on the trail, and Operation Wembley began. After detailed investigation, they raided the workshop in Partick. Despite having been arrested, charged and bailed, the forgers were undeterred and set up a second operation across the city.McAnea, 48, a former print union official, was found guilty of counterfeiting and conspiracy to defraud charges and jailed for 10 years.

Passing sentence, the trial judge Lord Cameron, said: "You will be well aware that counterfeiting currency notes has the potential to destroy confidence in the lawful issued currency of a country ..."It is a crime which strikes at the root of the commercial and economic life of a country."Dean, 44, found guilty of counterfeiting and conspiracy to defraud, was jailed for eight and a half years. Printer John McGregor, 40, was jailed for five years; graphic designer Iain Ruxton, 28, for two years; and Dennis McGinnis, 39, also a printer, for one year. The sixth member of the gang, Geoffrey Renshaw, involved in the distribution of counterfeit duty-free vouchers, was fined pounds 1,000.. AN investigation was under way last night into why the nosewheel of an aircraft suddenly collapsed shortly after it landed with 62 people on board.

The 58 passengers and four crew escaped down emergency chutes on to the tarmac at Manchester Airport. One passenger was taken to hospital with a broken ankle and another four were treated on the spot for minor injuries. Passengers on the 8.30am British Regional Airlines BA 7783 flight from Southampton later told how the ATP aircraft began shaking as the captain and first officer struggled to maintain control as the nosewheel collapse. It slewed sideways across the runway and came to rest with its nose against the ground.. DETAILS about the whereabouts of paedophiles following their release from prison can be revealed to the public by the authorities, the Court of Appeal ruled in a landmark judgment yesterday. The police and other government agencies will now be legally entitled to publicise where the freed sex offenders are living "to protect the public and in particular children", and the media will be allowed to name them. The judgment comes just days after it was announced that up to 150 convicted sex offenders will be released from prison into the community without compulsory supervision. Six of those are said to be as potentially dangerous as child-killer Robert Oliver, who has already cost the public pounds 100,000 in efforts to protect him from from vigilantes, and children from him.Lord Woolf, Master of the Rolls, sitting with Lord Justice Schiemann and Lord Justice Robert Walker stressed, however, that "disclosure should only be made when there is a pressing need", and urged that more should be done to find paedophiles appropriate accommodation after they had served their jail sentences.The judges rejected an appeal by Peter and Christine Thorpe against a decision by North Wales police to release information about them.