THE number of police officers on the streets is to be established by Holyrood, MSPs were told yesterday.

SCOTLAND Week celebrations of the type which take place in the United States could be extended to other countries including Russia, Alex Salmond said yesterday.

HOMEOWNERS were dealt a fresh blow yesterday as Britain's biggest lender hiked mortgage rates, defying the pleas from Gordon Brown to pass on the rate cut offered by the B

IT'S AN image Spaniards will not soon forget: their new defence minister, reviewing trim, crisply uniformed soldiers, with her belly plump from seven months of pregnancy.

SCOTLAND's government has been accused of hypocrisy over plans for a local income tax, amid claims the proposals would hit the lowest earners.

PROTESTERS dressed as pirates will picket the offices of BP today, to highlight what they claim is the oil giant's attempt to control the production of Iraq's oil res

HARRIET Harman, the Commons leader, will not face a police inquiry over errors in reporting contributions to her deputy Labour leadership campaign, it was revealed last night

AN MSP was yesterday accused of arrogance after he put plans to bring in a 10p levy on plastic bags before Holyrood for a second time.

LEADERS of a children's charity have said that many young people in Scotland do not feel safe in their own neighbourhoods.

BUILDING wind turbines on Scotland's precious peatland could be catastrophic for the environment, according to a Scottish MEP.

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A HUGE gulf emerged yesterday between the aspirations of Westminster and Holyrood for the role of joint ministerial committees (JMCs) as Alex Salmond met with minister

THE 111th Scottish Trades Union Council annual congress meets in Inverness this year in a Scotland that has a political landscape dramatically changed since we met in Glasgow

THE Scottish Government's commitment to making GPs open their surgeries for longer hours is facing fresh opposition from doctors who claim it is an inappropriate use of re

THE concept of community planning â€" and what it asks of public-sector workers â€" is arguably now the most powerful driver for change in Scotland's leadership culture.

THE European Commission has launched an inquiry into government subsidies paid to Scotland's ferry companies.

ROBERT MUGABE, the Zimbabwe dictator, must not be allowed to steal his country's presidential election and hang on to power illegally, Gordon Brown warned the world last n

A WOMAN was hit by a train and killed as she walked over a railway foot crossing yesterday.

A VINTAGE collection of famous Château d'Yquem wines sold for £368,000 at Sotheby's yesterday, three times the estimated price.

THE first Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Study in Scarlet, could fetch £9,000 in an auction of books gathered from Oxfam shops next month.