But despite the vast pay-outs a statement issued by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service insisted they had “sought to protect the public” from soaring costs. Scottish Conservative MS ...

The Scottish government has struck deals with the Greens and Lib Dems to ensure that its Budget plans will be approved. Finance Secretary Shona Robison said she would table a series of amendments ...

Police Scotland mounted a huge search after the 32 ... Hall which Madras College FPs leased for a time as their club room, but I can tell you that a half pint of lager shandy occasionally passed ...

A rapist has had his prison sentence extended at the High Court in Glasgow following a successful appeal by the Crown. Ryan Brown was jailed for seven years after being convicted of sexually ...

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A drugs trafficker who set himself up as counter-surveillance expert to safeguard gangland criminals from law enforcement agencies has had his prison sentence increased following a successful appeal ...

In the recent US election, the Democrats made a huge play out of the notion that the very concept of democracy itself was at risk if Donald Trump won. And yet his eventual victory was unquestionably ...

A patient has been left to languish in a hospital bed despite being medically fit to go home for more than SEVEN YEARS, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Gregor Townsend has been speaking to the media after naming his Scotland team to face Italy in Saturday's Six Nations opener at Murrayfield. Here are the key points from the head coach ...

A Crown prosecutor told a B.C. Supreme Court judge on Tuesday ... The lingering effects of the bear spray may have saved Chalifoux’s life, because the accused could only stay in the room so long due ...