The majority of MSPs sworn in yesterday made a secular affirmation in a Holyrood first. All MSPs must swear allegiance to the ...

A sheriff has found there were no precautions which could reasonably have been taken that might realistically have resulted in the death of a prisoner being avoided but has made six recommendations ...

North Korea has reportedly amended its constitution to mandate an automatic nuclear strike if leader Kim Jong Un is assassinated or the country’s nuclear command system comes under attack. The amendme ...

To Edinburgh to meet a recently retired university pal. We choose Fishers in Thistle St, the city centre redoubt of the ...

Dorothy Bain KC has informed First Minister John Swinney that she intends to leave office. Ms Bain, who was appointed by ...

For many people the rolling hills of the Lake District offer gentle escapism, but for Digby Brown media manager Sam Whyte it ...

As a young journalist visiting Brezhnev’s sclerotic Soviet Union, I felt privileged to be shown around the huge state library ...

A company has been fined £350,000 after the catastrophic collapse of a storage tank at its Peterhead premises which left a ...

Plans by the UK government to reform anti-money laundering regulation in Scotland are “misplaced, misguided and counterproductive” and risk weakening the fight against economic crime, the Law Society ...

The Scottish Sentencing Council has launched a public consultation to seek views on a draft sentencing guideline for domestic ...

The impact of coerced debt as a form of economic abuse in Scotland has been revealed in a new study. The report, "It’s always there, like a shadow behind you”: Women’s Experiences of Coerced Debt and ...

A personal injury sheriff has dismissed an action by a tenant alleging that damp and mould in her rental property triggered her asymptomatic asthma after finding that no evidence had been led supporti ...