Experts expect alcohol crackdown to close health/wealth gap

Alek Minassian – the 25-year-old who drove his van into pedestrians, killing 10 in Toronto last week – ticked every box for a lone wolf terrorist. He was a misfit, an outsider with a grievance, which he nursed until it turned into a rage. Then he took that rage to the internet where other misfits legitimised and politicised it, moulding it into an ideology of hatred. Minassian was radicalised, in other words, just like so many angry young men before him.

A Scottish entrepreneur has developed a new eco-friendly bottle that could help combat the growing mountain of plastic litter entering the world’s oceans.

Dedicated funding to fix Scotland’s potholes is needed to prevent councillors having to make “impossible” choices between roads and social care, a leading highways official has urged.

A hat-trick by Stephen Dobbie helped Queens end the season on a high and send Brechin back to League 2 without a win.

Dundee United manager Csaba Laszlo challenged his players to assume hero status after watching them confirm their Premiership play-off quarter-final tie with Dunfermline.

Ryan Blair’s late goal denied St Mirren a winning farewell to the Championship, but Buddies boss Jack Ross refused to dwell on an anti-climactic end to an outstanding season.