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A vulnerable teenage boy killed himself at Polmont Young Offenders’ Institution within 48 hours of being remanded despite having been flagged up as a suicide risk, The Scotsman can reveal.

Donald Trump has come under fire for cancelling a visit to a cemetery in France due to rain.

Nicola Sturgeon has said the UK Government is risking a disastrous Brexit by promising all things to all people.

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A woman left paralysed after being “catapulted” from her new bed during sex has lost her seven-figure claim for damages against the bed supplier.

Scotland will be the first country in the world to ensure its education system recognises the issues faced by the LGBTI community, ministers have announced.

Scottish primary and secondary pupils are to become the first in the world to be taught in a schools’ system that has LGBTI education embedded in the curriculum.

For land managers tasked with caring for ­Scotland’s treasured moorland ­landscapes, 2018 has not been the easiest year to be out in our hills and glens.

The dehumanising language about whole groups and nations that helped create the avoidable catastrophe of the First World War is stalking Western politics once again, writes Joyce McMillan.