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  • House: Scottish police need to focus on organised crime, not terror threat
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    SCOTLAND'S new single police force will not have a separate counter-terrorist squad as its officers would be under-employed and lacking "match fitness" to fight crime, its chief constable has revealed.

  • Historic change ushers in a new era of crime fighting
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    THE introduction of the Police Service of Scotland (PSS) will be the biggest change in Scottish policing in living memory and the most significant public service reform since devolution.

  • Call for action as majority of beaches fail to meet water quality standards
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    FEWER than half of Scotland's beaches have been recommended as safe for swimming after sum-mer downpours washed sewage and other pollutants into the sea.

  • Family of dead girl blame driver
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    THE family of a schoolgirl who was killed in a school bus crash have accused the coach driver of causing the accident and trying to mislead police about it.

  • Dame Edna: it's great Scotland is leaving England...to join New Zealand
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    Dame Edna Everage isn't playing possum on Scottish independence.

  • Trump in turbine legal threat
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    DONALD Trump has promised to mount a legal challenge to the Scottish Government's decision to approve a controversial off-shore wind farm near his golf resort in the north-east.

  • Woman jogger 'froze to death'
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    A WOMAN froze to death after slipping on ice while out jogging, it is believed.

  • Court told of Lynda's pain and suffering
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    A FINANCIAL adviser suffered unspeakable cruelty, pain, humiliation and degradation after she was abducted by four men who controlled the last two weeks of her life before she was murdered, a court was told.

  • Motorist wins fight to have bus lane fine scrapped
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    A MOTORIST has finally won her eight-month fight to have a £30 fine scrapped after she pulled into a bus lane to make way for two fire engines responding to an emergency call.

  • How the force will be split
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    Specialist Crime Division

  • Police Scotland in numbers
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    8 number of existing forces being combined into one

  • Homeless help figures fall
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    The number of homeless people applying to councils for help has fallen 12%, according to new figures.

  • Prank call nurse inquest date set
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    THE inquest into the death of nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who answered a hoax call about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge, will be heard on May 2 and 3.

  • Horse mutilated in vicious attack
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    A horse has been cut in a "malicious attack" that left him bleeding heavily in his field.

  • New radio station for prisoners
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    PRISONERS at one of Scotland's most notorious jails can now listen to their own radio station.

  • National ballet company and McAvoy nominated
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    Scotland's national ballet company, the actor James McAvoy and a collaboration between the author Louise Welsh and composer Stuart MacRae are in the running for the UK's most prestigious theatre awards.

  • Pendleton pride
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    CYCLIST Victoria Pendleton described her delight at being made a CBE by the Queen yesterday.

  • Big 5 animals front tourism campaign
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    A NEW campaign has been launched to encourage the public to learn more about five of Scotland's indigenous animals.

  • Scottish insolvency rise is worst in UK
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    THE number of Scots being declared insolvent has risen faster than anywhere else in the UK, it has been claimed.

  • Sandie Shaw says music needs cash
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    Sixties singer Sandie Shaw has complained that some of the best music is going unheard because artists who do not have the kind of privileged background enjoyed by Mumford & Sons are struggling to make it.

  • Negative equity in Scotland rises fast
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    THE number of Scottish homeowners finding themselves in negative equity is growing by one of the fastest rates in the UK.

  • Pension gender gap remains
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    Women retiring this year in Scotland expect their annual retirement incomes to be £4950 less than those of men, according to new research from Prudential.

  • Window-fitter dies in fall from fourth floor
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    A WINDOW-fitter fell to his death from a four-storey block of flats.

  • Bremner in Scottish politics comedy
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    Scottish comedian and satirist Rory Bremner is to take aim at Scottish politics for a new one-off show for BBC Scotland.

  • Editor quits The Archers
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    The boss of Radio 4 series The Archers is stepping down after 22 years.

  • MP says helicopter assurance worthless
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    Government assurances that search and rescue service would continue to be stationed at RAF Lossiemouth have been branded worthless.

  • Model magic
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    Harry Potter star Emma Watson looks bewitching as she joins the line-up of stars at Madame Tussauds.

  • Council assured on compensation risk
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    Council leaders have been assured taxpayers in Edinburgh will not have to fund compensation claims from roadworks linked to the new Forth road bridge.

  • Richard III burial row rumbles on
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    Fifteen living relatives of King Richard III, whose body was unearthed from a council car park last year, are to challenge in the courts plans to rebury him in Leicester.

  • Storms raise puffin fears
    Wednesday 27 March 2013

    SCOTLAND's puffin population is being ravaged by the Arctic chill sweeping the country.