News from Scotland

OBAN Bay’s ambitious pontoon project is dead in the water amid a sea of resentment and allegations.

OBAN High School Pipe Band returned home to a rain soaked but rapturous welcome as the Champion of Champions 2010, late last Saturday night.

BRITISH service personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan were remembered at a ceremomy of remembrance in Fort William last Wednesday morning.

A CHURCH of Scotland minister was found safe on a Lochaber hillside known as The Devil’s Ridge – 20 hours after he was due to return home.

THE MOST vulnerable residents in Argyll and Bute are to be put at risk of homelessness when their housing benefit is cut next year, according to Shelter Scotland.

AN 18-YEAR-old law student has become the first woman to win a gold medal for solo piping at the Argyllshire Gathering.  

The Tories are to hold a meeting of the party's shadow cabinet on the site of the former Ravenscraig steel works.

Twelve Glasgow Rangers hooligans involved in rioting after the Uefa Cup Final in Manchester are due to be sentenced.

Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon is due to announce what she wants the minimum price for alcohol to be.

Around 25 kilos of amphetamines worth more than £200,000 has been seized by police.

The life prospects of youngsters in residential care in Scotland are "generally poor", with many facing unemployment, homelessness and prison, a spending watchdog has

Nine out of ten Scots support changing the law so it is an offence for adults to buy cigarettes for youngsters, a poll has revealed.

A 10-year-old girl is being treated in hospital after she was bitten by a dog in the second attack of its kind this week.

A ferry company is encouraging its staff to learn Gaelic.

Scotland's financial sector suffered another blow when insurance firm Standard Life announced it was axing almost 500 jobs in the capital.

The body set up by the SNP to help finance the building of public projects like schools and hospitals provided £111 million of benefits last year, bosses have said.

A primary pupil was the toast of his class after he got a helping hand with a school project from US president Barack Obama.

Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged Scots to help victims of the Pakistan floods as she prepared to take part in fundraising events.

Scotland's largest police force said that it had no plans to cut a large proportion of its traffic officers.

Up to 600 jobs are being cut at life and pensions group Standard Life, it has been announced.