Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of a “spectacular error of judgment” for cutting the number of student nurses while Health Secretary, quadrupling the number of unfilled nursing posts and putting NHS staff under unprecedented pressure.

It is the glittering event that has brought some of Scotland’s most fashionable creative talents together under the one roof.

The SNP could damage the Brexit deal Theresa May’s deputy has warned by demanding powers currently held in Brussels.

Great Britain’s women curlers have lost their bronze medal match with Japan at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

We’d tried hurrying them out of their hotel only to hold up the team bus with a bunch of bagpipers on a death march. We’d tried plonking a random pillar in the middle of their changing-room, interrupting the coach’s final instructions with blasts on the public-address, the last of which was an instruction to get on to the park where there was no opposition only more skirlers, ready to fill cauliflower ears with their demented racket.

Man-of-the-match Finn Russell chose his moment of vindication to deflect praise to his team-mates in the wake of the glorious 25-13 triumph to regain the Calcutta Cup.