DEMENTIA patients are being woken, washed and dressed at 5.30am to ease pressure on hospital nurses in Edinburgh, an MSP has claimed.

A new poll has found that half of voters would back Scottish independence in a referendum after Brexit.

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The SNP should work in parallel with Welsh independence campaigners to break up the UK, the new leader of Plaid Cymru Adam Price said yesterday.

St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright has called for his team to keep the ball better as they prepare for their latest major challenge against Celtic.

Murrayfield. I didn’t want to have to write about the place again. At least not until I was due to go there for the purpose it was built – rugby and the autumn Tests beginning on 10 November with Scotland vs Fiji, two teams who love having the ball in their hands.

It says something about the modern game when you find yourself listening to Edinburgh’s Duhan van der Merwe, a winger who stands 6ft 4in tall and tips the scales at 16-odd stones, complaining that his opposite number for Montpellier in next weekend’s European Champions Cup tie is going to take some stopping.

Whatever else that Scotland may lack under Alex McLeish, they will not want for information on opponents. And the national manager has been assisted in genning up on the Israelis who will host his team on Thursday in the Nations League courtesy of Northern Ireland counterpart Michael O’Neill and his staff.