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Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie has hit out at Andrew Neil and the BBC after he refused to dance following an appearance on late night political magazine show This Week.

MP Mhairi Black and actress Maureen Beattie are the latest to be recognised as Outstanding Women of Scotland at a ceremony in Glasgow.

Police in Scotland have issued a warning after reports a black panther is on the loose.

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The crisis in Scotland’s classrooms has been laid bare by teachers’ accounts of assaults by pupils, ­children struggling with illiteracy and a curriculum that is “unfit” for purpose.

Some weather forecasters are still predicting that Scotland will be hit with four months of snow this winter - but the Met Office has once again dismissed the claims.

Police in Scotland have issued a clarification on a big cat sighting in Ayrshire after previously warning a black panther was on the loose.

The stark reality of the culling of over 50 trees in Princes Street Gardens has hit home with locals in shock at the decision to remove so many in the city centre.

Nicola Sturgeon has pulled out of a BBC-run conference after learning that Donald Trump's former strategist Steve Bannon has been invited to speak.