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ONE of the international relationships which the Scottish Government has tried to build on over the years is our links with Japan. These go back a…

SCOTLAND'S pine martens have been garnering some impressive column inches lately.

Five Scots selected by GB and NI for European Indoors Tuesday 23rd February 2021 European Indoors. The event will take place over three days in Torun in Poland at the end of next week from March 5-7. And Zoey Beth Dobbin are with the Women’s 4c400m squad. Well done to all five athletes and their coaches and families on these selections for the event in Torun. scottishathletics also takes this opportunity to acknowledge the important development work at club level over many years which has helped these athletes reach this level of international athletics – Giffnock North (Neil), Edinbu...

Lockerbie bombing: Megrahi's posthumous appeal rejected by Scottish judges Five Scottish judges have upheld the 2001 verdict against Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the only person convicted for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people. Last week's decision is the second time an appeal on Megrahi's behalf has been rejected by the courts amid the continued suppression of contradictory evidence. In 2002, an initial appeal was thrown out. In 2009, Megrahi, already terminally ill, was tacitly offered release from Greenock prison on compassionate gr...

Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries THE last 12 months have been brutal for arts venues in Scotland and throughout the UK. Theatres, music venues and cinemas have gone dark, galleries have opened when allowed, only to find that for the most part only locals could visit. The absence of live entertainment has hit hard. But so has the absence of art and cinema, particularly outside the cities where they are often the heart and soul of their communities. As we continue to hunker down during the current lockdown we’ve been thinking of the venues we can’t wait to revisit later this y...