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FOUR community projects are to benefit from the first grants made by the reconstituted Scottish Land Fund.

Four out of five drug-related deaths in the north-east of Scotland in a three-year period involved misused prescription medication, according to figures.

FOR once, gallery chiefs are hoping for laughter from the critics after a new exhibition of paintings, sculpture and archive material of Scottish comedians opened in Edinburgh.

THE mother of missing student David O'Halloran has spoken of the comfort she is getting from a psychic, as the five-week search for her son continues.

Oscar Pistorius, accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day, has been granted bail at Pretoria Magistrates' Court in South Africa.

Scots will not face any rises in their council tax for the sixth year in a row.

Pupils who are excluded from school aged 12 are four times as likely as other children to be jailed as adults, according to a new study.

A court case involving a teenage Premier League and England footballer was adjourned today.

WHAT was once the final frontier could become the final resting place for thousands of Scots thanks to a Glasgow entrepreneur who has launched Europe's first space burial service.

CELEBRITY chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall should be taken off TV because his campaign to save fish stocks is damaging Scotland's fishing industry, its leaders have warned.

POLICE doctors in Scotland are earning as much as £200,000 a year on top of their regular salaries as they respond to incidents.

THE president of the AA, Edmund King, has warned that drivers "can't take any more", after the latest hike in the cost of petrol.

SCOTLAND'S leading animal welfare charity has launched a blunt advertising campaign urging people not to call out the RSPCA because it has no jurisdiction north of the Border.

The Free Church itself was born in "the Disruption" of 1843, when 450 ministers of the Church of Scotland broke away over the issue of patronage and whether the congregations or patrons were to have the greatest say in selecting parish ministers.