Edinburgh author Irvine Welsh has waded into the football v rugby row on social media in the wake of Scotland’s loss to Ireland.

Scotland’s main Highland Games body, which has faced strong criticism over its lack of gender equality for female athletes, will today be under pressure to discuss including transgender non-binary categories in its events.

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More than half of those surveyed for an exclusive Scotland on Sunday poll think the Scottish Government are not doing enough to meet their own health targets.

Scotland captain Greig Laidlaw was unhappy with some of the decisions of referee Romain Poite, pictured, during the Guinness Six Nations defeat by Ireland at BT Murrayfield.

David Law claimed his maiden European Tour victory after producing a brilliant finish to win the ISPS Handa Vic Open in Australia.

What did we do for fun in the old days? We went to the game, we stood in the rain and watched the players kick lumps out of each other, and then we came home. There might have been highlights on TV that night but they’d be brief, eccentrically edited and with a very good chance that the coverage would miss the most eye-watering of all the skin grafts conducted without anaesthetic on the pitch. And if by some fluke the worst challenge had found its way into the excerpts, the commentator would refrain from drawing attention to it, or at least he’d cloak it in some heroic euphemism.