A new record from Bill Frist

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

THE headteacher of a primary has used his school's newsletter to launch an outspoken attack on the nation's education system.

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.

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 number of Orange walks and other marches allowed on Scotland's streets is to be slashed following demands by police and councils.

A MURDER inquiry has been launched following the death of a 22-year-old man in Lanarkshire.

A FOUR-year-old girl died and a man was fighting for life in hospital last night after a fire in an Aberdeen tenement yesterday.

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.

HERITAGE chiefs have unveiled plans to create a national centre dedicated to the Bard.

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.

The First Minister's behaviour over the affair is growing increasingly peculiar. Why won't he do the right thing, asks Eddie Barnes

SCOTTISH rugby is facing financial meltdown as a result of its governing body's self-inflicted crisis, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.

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.

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".

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.

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.

A FEMALE version of Viagra, designed to boost women's sex drive, could shortly be available on prescription in the UK, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.