Scots have been warned that cars and windows will be showered by sand all the way from the Sahara Desert – the price to pay for Easter’s record-breaking weather.

Devolution has been a disaster for Scottish education – and the SNP are making it worse with obsession over independence, writes Brian Monteith.

Secret gardens, future drinking lounges and tasting flights will be the new additions to the UK’s leading cocktail festival as Edinburgh’s best bars battle it out in a contest of cocktail creativity next month

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Former Conservative MP and broadcaster Anne Widdecombe is set for a return to politics to join Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party at the upcoming European Elections.

Harry Cochrane insists he is fit and ready to end a rollercoaster campaign on a soaring high – as Hearts manager Craig Levein claimed he would have no qualms about pitching the talented teenager into the Scottish Cup final.

As towering figures in Scottish sporting history go, perhaps none occupies a more elevated or iconic space in the pantheon than Billy McNeill.

Paul Murray sat in the spartan surroundings of Central Park four years ago and quickly realised the renaissance of Rangers was not going to happen overnight.