Top stories of the week

New Conservative leader Boris Johnson has reportedly said he will be taking the title of Minister for the Union alongside that of Prime Minister.

An MSP is demanding to know who will pick up the bill for the indefinite delay in opening Edinburgh’s new children’s hospital.

A horrified dog walker has spoken of the moment a large seagull swooped down and devoured a pigeon chick after it had fallen from its nest on Leith Links.

Sacked Scottish Secretary David Mundell has urged Boris Johnson to reject a no-deal Brexit as he advised the new Prime Minister to leave the EU with an agreement or risk the integrity of the union.

This is the moment that lightning struck a wind turbine on the Fife coast, during Wednesday morning’s brutal thunder storm.

SNP isn’t doing well but Nicola Sturgeon seems as secure in power as Marshall Tito with Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard failing to hold the Scottish Government to account, writes Kevan Christie

Brexit, nationalism, a rise of extremes on the left and right has politically jiggered this once happy land, writes Jim Duffy.

Susan Dalgety bonded with Homba Mbekeani, the first qualified black nurse in Malawi, over frocks, chocolate cake, politics and the People’s Friend, while hearing stories about the racist attitudes of some British colonialists in the days of Empire.