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SUNDAY 12 AUGUST

An archive of the Scots language is now available all over the world thanks to a comprehensive new website.

Scots 'mither tongue' goes online

The Scottish National Party has called for a "national conversation" to take place about independence.

Call for debate on independence

Three men, all from central Fife and aged between 20 and 21, who were killed in a car crash, have been named by police.

Three killed in road crash named

SATURDAY 11 AUGUST

Police divers searching for a teenager who went missing after jumping into a river have recovered a body.

Body found in river teen search

Three men killed in a car crash on the B925 Kirkcaldy to Auchtertool road in Fife have been named by police.

Three killed in road crash named

A lone piper has played a specially-composed march in Glasgow to mark 100 days since the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal.

Lone piper's tune for Madeleine

FRIDAY 10 AUGUST

Death row Scot Kenny Richey has had his conviction overturned on appeal for the second time by a US court.

Death row conviction overturned

A man who was part of a paedophile gang in Edinburgh has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping two girls in the 1990s.

Child sex ring man sent to jail

A five-year-old boy is being treated in hospital after using a park slide smeared with a mixture of caustic soda and shampoo in Dysart, near Kirkcaldy.

Boy burnt by 'caustic' park slide

THURSDAY 9 AUGUST

A flight from the Dominican Republic with a number of sick passengers is quarantined at Glasgow Airport.

Glasgow Airport plane quarantined

Radioactive waste exported to Peru from Scotland in 1998 is sent back to the Dounreay nuclear plant, it emerges

Peru returns Scots nuclear waste

Four young men are taken to hospital - one by air ambulance - after a serious crash in Aberdeenshire, according to police.

Four injured in serious accident

WEDNESDAY 8 AUGUST

People often choose partners with similar body fatness to their own, according to new research involving 42 couples.

Body fat 'weighs up love choices'

First Minister Alex Salmond has announced a commission to look into the future of Scottish broadcasting.

Commission looks at broadcasting

A newborn baby has been found by a security guard abandoned at Wishaw General Hospital in North Lanarkshire.

Newborn baby boy left at hospital

TUESDAY 7 AUGUST

Scotland's exams body has admitted that a missing letter in a web address caused problems for candidates trying to access results.

Missing 's' means results stress

Cat owners have been urged to watch the waistlines of their pets as a rising number of felines are diagnosed with obesity-related diabetes.

Fat cats facing soaring diabetes

Celtic and Scotland striker Derek Riordan has been found not guilty of assaulting two members of staff at a pub in Edinburgh's Grassmarket.

Celtic striker cleared of assault

MONDAY 6 AUGUST

Scientists have discovered a new way of levitating ultra small objects, which may improve the performance of a number of everyday devices.

Experts float levitation theory

Householders in the coastal village of Pennan have been rescued from their homes after severe flooding.

Floods and mud force people out

Thousands of pupils have been unable to access their exam results via a new internet system, BBC Scotland has learned.

Results hit by internet problems