GERMAN researchers yesterday launched a rocket carrying 72 small fish on a brief space flight to study motion sickness.

MOTORISTS could save up to £100 a year by adopting "eco-driving" techniques that would also benefit the environment.

IT WAS equal parts Boy's Own adventure and technological marvel.

HIGH in the hills above the hot, noisy clatter of Kuala Lumpur, behind a pristine set of gates protected by two guards, sits the man whose money might just change the future o

ALEX Salmond defended his higher education budget settlement yesterday, despite reports that one university has already started cutting staff because of a the squeeze from the

THE University of St Andrews yesterday unveiled plans for a new £45 million school for medicine and science that aims to collaborate research into areas such as cancer, psycho

POLICE investigating the abduction and death of accountant Andrew Ramsay have issued a fresh appeal. Ramsay, 51, was handcuffed and bundled into a car in Glasgow on 22 Febru

STIRLING District Council is the first local authority in Scotland to cut its council tax for the coming financial year.

LAWS that allow children under 16 to be held in Scottish jails are to be scrapped.

A TEENAGE girl was raped by a man who offered to drive her home after a rave.

AN 89-YEAR-OLD woman struggled with two young raiders who barged into her home.

TWO Western Isles schools are to shut as a council struggles to plug gaps in its budget.

EVIDENCE against Luke Mitchell for the murder of his girlfriend Jodi Jones was hailed yesterday as "compelling and cogent", and appeal judges were told they should fee

A MAJOR search was launched yesterday for the Scotland-bound pilot of a light aircraft who ditched in the sea during a storm.

RECORD-breaking cyclist Mark Beaumont returned to Scotland yesterday after his round-the-world trek.

FIRE crews yesterday called for a review of their duties after firefighters were called out three times in one week to lift a 41-stone man.

A TEENAGER was struck and killed by a lorry as he left his school during the lunch break yesterday.

CROFTERS want to be given the same status as Australia's Aborigines or New Zealand's Maoris as a means of protecting their unique way of life.

UP TO 10,000 North Sea workers have won at least 14 additional paid holidays following a test case launched by unions.