Top stories of the week

Legal protection has been given to a site in Skye where dinosaur fossils and footprints from the Jurassic Age have been discovered.

An overnight train from London carrying 120 passengers had to be halted with an emergency brake after being unable to stop at Waverley Station today.

A "hero" Battle of Britain veteran has died hours after celebrating his 100th birthday, taking the number of surviving members of The Few to five, his biographer has said.

A no-deal Brexit could trigger "consumer panic", food shortages and an increased security threat within a fortnight, according to a leaked Government document.

Prisoners will be able to vote for the first time in a Scottish election after the UK government's blanket ban was ruled a breach of their human rights.

A referendum is the only legitimate route to an independent Scotland, Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said today.

Pensioners have handed a petition to Downing Street calling on the Prime Minister to save free TV licences for all over-75s.

As leaked UK Government report reveals fears of “consumer panic”, food shortages and trouble in Northern Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Boris Johnson may wish to rally the nation with a rousing chorus of the Dad’s Army theme tune and Corporal Jones’s famous cry in times of trouble.