Why is the media allowing the President to claim the mantle of idealism?

ST DAVID'S High School in Dalkeith was a place where most parents felt secure in the belief their children were being educated in a moral environment which protected them from some of the more disturbing aspects of youth culture.

SEXUAL health clinics offering contraception and morning-after pills to pupils could be set up in rural schools as part of radical proposals to be unveiled by ministers this week.

ALMOST half of all five-year-olds in Scotland need treatment for tooth decay, a shocking new report has suggested.

A KIND of normality returns at last to community shattered by evil...

THE giant ballot papers for next Sunday's Iraqi elections tell their own story. At 3ft long by 2ft wide, each one carries no less than 257 different political parties to choose from.

PRISON is working for Martha Stewart. America's "domestic goddess", is set to reap a multi-million dollar reward when she is released from jail in six weeks.

IT SOUNDS like every pupil's fantasy: thousands of Scottish teachers are losing their voices as a result of talking too much in the classroom.

ST DAVID'S High School in Dalkeith was a place where most parents felt secure in the belief their children were being educated in a moral environment which protected them from some of the more disturbing aspects of youth culture.

THE detective who put killer Luke Mitchell behind bars believes the teenager murdered Jodi Jones after a furious row over his plan to take another girl on holiday.

ALEX Salmond will try to win Scotland's prized 'grey vote' for the Nationalists this week. The SNP leader will highlight the plight of pensioner poverty at a speech on Tuesday, marking the unofficial start of the party's campaign for the

A TEENAGER is being held in connection with the death of missing girl Karen Dewar.

LONDON and Washington refused to comment yesterday on reports from Iraq that the notorious terrorist wanted for the murder of Ken Bigley had been captured.

THE detective who brought Luke Mitchell to justice answers the final question: why was Jodi Jones murdered?

FROM Oprah to Paul McKenna, self-help books are all the rage, but today's 'experts' could learn a lot from an obscure classic - published in 1859, writes PAUL STOKES.

THE sheer scale of plans for 5,000 turbines across Scotland, spurred on by huge profits, has galvanised opponents committed to preserving Scotland's natural beauty, writes JEREMY WATSON.

NEARLY a century after Andrew Carnegie used much of his vast wealth to help charities in the United States, a new organisation hopes to deliver a reversal of fortune, capitalising on the assets and goodwill of the Scottish-American diaspora.

THE love of Scotland espoused by rich Americans is to be cultivated to create a multimillion-pound windfall for charitable causes in the old country.