Teachers in Scotland are being pressurised by management to change the wording of school reports and adjust pupils’ attainment levels upwards, it has been claimed.

Scottish Ambulance Service staff have been subjected to 460 verbal and physical assaults since the beginning of 2015, according to figures.

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Theresa May is hopeful of keeping Britain in a customs union and avoiding the need for a hard border in Northern Ireland after receiving “private concessions” from the European Union, according to reports.

The first day at high school was daunting. All those subjects, a different teacher for each and I got lost on the way to physics and again coming out of Latin where we were taught that our motto, “Fortiter et recte”, meant “Bravely and uprightly”. I wasn’t feeling that, not at all.

John Robertson, the Inverness Caley Thistle manager, took the assistant referee’s explosive turn of pace up the players’ tunnel at the break as confirmation of a serious injustice. Linesman Sean Carr wasn’t the only observer at the Caledonian Stadium left panting after breathless action.

Graeme Shinnie admits it’s weird seeing Aberdeen start the weekend in the bottom half of the Premiership but the Pittodrie club’s captain expects normal service to be resumed by the time the next one rolls around.