George Pitcher meets the Rev Russell Tague rector of the Esk Parishes in the Border Country north of Carlisle and learns about the local eduction crisis.

Record numbers of Alevel students including thousands with straightAs will be rejected from university this summer as applications soar in the recession.

For Marisol Becerra and other kids growing up in the Little Village neighborhood in Chicago, the smokestack from the Crawford coal-burning power plant is part of the gritty, industrial landscape called home. Located between a major highway, rail line and

On a chilly evening in late May, hundreds of Porto Alegre, Brazil, residents packed into the Cecores gymnasium of the working-class neighborhood of Restinga for their yearly regional Participatory Budgeting (PB) assembly. Mayor José Fogaça and his PB team sat

FARRAH Fawcett was not a great actress. But she had an impact on popular culture out of all proportion to her acting ability. Posters of her sold in the millions.

THOSE who thought the passing of the late great Ian Rushbrook would bring a change in style, outlook and direction at the iconoclastic Edinburgh-based Personal Assets Trust wi

THE loss of a loved one is a harrowing and life-changing experience - the last thing anyone who has experienced this should face is deportation.

THE Scottish Government has defended spending almost £500,000 on its "National Conversation" over the future of the constitution.

A BRITISH diplomatic compound is close to being seized by the Iranian authorities, one of the country's hardline military commanders has warned.

THE Ultimate Answer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been given a new lease of life, thanks to the Scottish Parliament. In the Douglas Adams novel, a supercom

SCOTLAND'S justice secretary has upped the pressure on Westminster to devolve control over firearms in a letter to new Home Secretary Alan Johnson.

A THIRD British soldier has been killed over the weekend in southern Afghanistan, bringing to 174 the total number of UK services personnel killed during the deployment in the

THE new head of MI6 has been embarrassed by a major personal security breach after his wife published intimate photographs and family details on the Facebook website.

EVEN for a nonconformist, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has defied political logic with a sudden, stunning announcement to leave office more than a year early.

BARELY audible, but definitely discernible above the buzz of a police helicopter and the din of a busy Saturday afternoon, was the faint pop of yellow balls being knocked back

HUNDREDS of teachers in the private sector are not registered, denying regulators the chance to scrutinise their work, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.

FOR nearly a century debate has raged over whether he was the man who ignored the plight of hundreds who died in the sinking of the Titanic.

A FEW cups of coffee a day may be all that is needed to reverse the effects of Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests.

A FATHER described yesterday how he thought it was "the end" after hiding in a bathroom with five of the six people who died as a blaze engulfed their tower block.