Morning Briefing: Transport minister to announce bid to improve rail links with Glasgow Published on Wednesday 4 July 2012 08:32 Details of plans to electrify part of the railway and create hundreds of jobs were set to be announced by the Scottish Government. Transport minister Keith Brown was expected to unveil the Edinburgh-Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP) during a visit to Glasgow Queen Street station today. EGIP aims to connect services with Edinburgh airport via a gateway station under development at Haymarket in the city. The scheme aims to deliver more reliable trains with more capacity to run between the cities, via Falkirk High. Queen Street station will become a "world-class integrated transport hub," the minister is expected to say. Progress on plans for the electrification of Cumbernauld line services is also likely to be confirmed as being on target, in what is described as a boost for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014. LEGAL highs have been banned from T in the Park after the death of a local teenager at another festival. In contrast to previous years, where legal and "herbal" highs were sold openly at the site, organisers have said anyone now caught with such substances will have them confiscated. The move follows the death last month of Portobello teenager Alex Heriot at the RockNess festival. The 19-year old is believed to have taken the legal high Benzo Fury. A spokesman for T in the Park said: "Legal or herbal highs are not permitted on site." THE cover of JK Rowling's first book since she finished the Harry Potter saga has been revealed ahead of its publication later this year. The Casual Vacancy will be the author's first offering aimed primarily at adults. It is set in the fictional English town of Pagford and deals with the unexplained death of a village resident. The book is expected to be a massive success when it is published in September, with pre-orders already making it one of the year's bestsellers. Little, Brown Book Group says film and stage actor Tom Hollander will record the audio version of the book. Rowling's series about Harry Potter, the boy wizard, made her one of the most successful authors in the world. The Edinburgh-based author is also working on a Harry Potter encyclopedia, and will donate proceeds from its sale to charity. It is unlikely to appear any time soon, however, as the author warned it would be a "time-consuming job." HUNDREDS of police officers are working for Scottish forces despite having convictions for crimes, including assault, theft, drug possession and drink-driving. It has been reported that at least 333 police men and women currently employed by the police service in Scotland have an outstanding conviction. In Lothian and Borders a total of 111 serving officers hold criminal convictions - about 4 per cent of the force - including one senior officer found guilty of drug offences.