Islanders will now be eligible for a 50 per cent discount on air fares, as ministers described flights to remote communities as "lifeline connections".
Scottish Executive ministers at the start of the millennium believed that appealing to the "innate common sense of the public" would be key to achieving their plans to scrap the controversial section 28 law, newly-declassified documents have suggested.
Leaving the European Union would create a "melting pot of uncertainty" in Britain's workplaces, according to the head of the conciliation service.
Shakespeare, Beatrix Potter, the Army and the Great Fire of London will be appearing in pockets, purses and piggy banks in 2016 as they are set to feature on new coins.
Ministers are urging people to make joining the organ donor register their new year's resolution for 2016, to help give others "a second chance at life".
Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to step up his campaign against austerity and claimed 2016 will be the year that puts Labour on course for government.
AMBULANCES are turning up to the scene of 11 hoax calls a week.
THE UK's gender pay gap remains "stubborn", with women's educational success not being carried through to the workplace, an equality group has warned.
Detectives are renewing their appeal for help from the public on the second anniversary of the brutal killing of a mother-of-two.
Five men were taken to hospital after taking an "unknown substance", police said.
