CAMPAIGNERS against the Scottish Executive's plans to ban smoking in public places have condemned MSPs after it emerged that only one Holyrood member turned up for a debate on the proposals being held in a hotel right next door to
SCOTS scientists have made a major leap forward in the development of a malaria vaccine following the discovery of an antibody which protects against the disease.
TEENAGE musical sensation Nicola Benedetti is set to join Scotland's millionaire club this week when she signs a seven-figure recording deal with a leading music label.
SCOTLAND'S largest music festival, T in the Park, has been blamed for a massive increase in drug-related offences in a rural area over the past five years.
THE CAMPAIGN to save the birthplace of Robert Burns has taken a massive leap forward after Scotland's heritage chiefs unveiled their detailed plans to create a national centre dedicated to the Bard.
AN EXPOSED coastal road where a family of five were swept to their deaths by heavy seas last week was the subject of repeated pleas for safety improvements which were rejected by council chiefs.
LEADING critics of the Scottish Parliament building project have been axed from the publicly funded TV documentary on the fiasco, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.
THEIR lives were on a collision course from 10.34pm on December 31. It was then that David Atkinson dropped off friends at the Fountain Bar in Cambridge. Sally Geeson was drinking in the Avery pub opposite.
ONE of the world's richest men has won a bitter court fight with a Scottish crofting family who could now be forced off the land they have lived on for more than a century.
THE bunsen burners that inspired thousands of young Scots to become scientists are in danger of being snuffed out. Hundreds of schools across the country are routinely cancelling science practicals because of lack of equipment and funding.
IT WAS once said of rugby in Ireland, during the years when the sport did not flourish in that country, that "the situation is critical - but not serious".
THE outgoing Archbishop of York last night warned that debates over same-sex marriages and the ordination of women bishops should not be allowed to "dominate" the Church of England's agenda.
