Last year, I voted Labour at the general election. A decade ago that would not have been such a frightening thing to admit. Having voted SNP until 2015, initially drawn to their mid-2000s commitment to reform the unfair and discredited council tax, my enthusiasm for a nation draped almost exclusively in blinding yellow was beginning to dip.

A shrine to an intruder who died in a botched raid during one his burglaries has been left near the home of his pensioner victim - but was torn down within hours.

A boy has died in hospital after collapsing at a bus stop in Edinburgh.

I’m looking around the home of this true football man, spotting the playing-days mementos and the cup given to him for being a “manager extraordinaire”. I’m noticing the family photos of his three daughters and assorted grandchildren, also the snap of him with Chic Charnley, an incorrigible rascal he signed four times and who, by way of thanks, phones the old boss every week just to check he’s doing okay. But, for the life of me I can’t find any erotic art.

John Lambie, the former manager of Partick Thistle and Hamilton Academical, has died at the age of 77.

Former Motherwell manager Stuart McCall believes the odds on the Fir Park club reaching
the William Hill Scottish Cup final have been shortened 
considerably by the absence of suspended Aberdeen trio Graeme Shinnie, Kenny McLean and Shay Logan.