Tory optimism grows in Scotland after very dark years

The political landscape in Scotland has changed beyond all recognition in the past 20 years, and in the Motherwell suburb of Ravenscraig the contrast of past and present is even more stark.New housing estates with names like "Phoenix Park" have risen from the rubble of the site of the old Ravenscraig Steel plant which once employed 13,000 workers.The plant was closed in 1992 and when its distinctive cooling towers were demolished a few years later, it seemed to herald the end of Scotland's major