Donald John Trump has never shown the slightest real interest in his Hebridean connections and, to the great credit of the island from which his mother was an economic migrant, it has reciprocated by paying the least possible attention to him.
Scottish scientists believe new and improved fertility treatments could arise from a landmark study which saw human eggs grown from their earliest stage to full maturity in laboratory conditions.
Four Scottish inventions are to be included on a list of 55 iconic patented products compiled by the UK Government to mark 400 years since the first patent was filed.
It was effectively a team that Craig Levein had built but when Dundee United climbed the steps at Hampden to lift the Scottish Cup in May 2010, Peter Houston was the manager.
It was first commissioned in 1965 by the son of a cinema impresario to decorate the stairwell in his Victorian townhouse in Glasgowâs fashionable North Kelvinside district.
