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Catch up on the most popular stories on the BBC Scotland news website.
SUNDAY 24 AUGUST
The Scottish Government has repeated its calls for Scotland to have its own, separate team at the Olympics Games.
Two multi-storey tower blocks in Glasgow are reduced to 16,000 tons of rubble in eight seconds during a controlled explosion.
Two men have been found on the Isle of Bute after a problem with the boat they were in sparked a major search.
SATURDAY 23 AUGUST
Police have launched an investigation into the "horrific" rape of a 14-year-old girl at Glasgow's Buchanan Street bus station.
A dig at troubled singer Amy Winehouse has been declared the funniest joke of the Edinburgh Fringe at an award ceremony.
The body of a man has been discovered in Aberdeen, a mile from where a missing father was last seen, it has emerged.
FRIDAY 22 AUGUST
A dig at troubled singer Amy Winehouse has been declared the funniest joke of the Edinburgh Fringe at an award ceremony.
A "house" in a cliff side has been discovered by lifeboat crews responding to an emergency call on the coast of Angus.
The line between Dundee and Aberdeen has reopened after Network Rail successfully completed works to clear a landslip and flooding.
THURSDAY 21 AUGUST
A drunk motorist whose five-year-old daughter was seen banging on a car window shouting "stop mummy driving" has been jailed for 80 days.
A man who threw a message in a bottle into the sea when he was a child has been reunited with it 23 years on.
A "house" in a cliff side has been discovered by lifeboat crews responding to an emergency call on the coast of Angus.
WEDNESDAY 20 AUGUST
Local services including schools, bin collections and ferry crossings have been disrupted as thousands of council workers staged a 24 walk-out over pay.
A hairdresser has been jailed after stealing almost 1,000 sets of hair straighteners to sell on eBay from a salon owned by renowned stylist Charlie Miller.
Heavy rain has caused flooding in central and southern Scotland resulting in an elderly couple being rescued by firefighters in the early hours.
TUESDAY 19 AUGUST
Hospital facilities in the west of Scotland are undergoing a "rapid review" after BBC Scotland revealed two cases of bodies being left on wards.
Scotland's Commonwealth Games velodrome is to be named after triple Olympic cycling gold-medalist Chris Hoy after he clinched three golds in Beijing.
Plans by a number of publishing houses to "age band" their children's books from the autumn enrages writers, including a former children's laureate.
MONDAY 18 AUGUST
An ancient species of tree is helping Britain's birds survive the effects of climate change, Edinburgh scientists have found.
Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill has defended secret guidelines telling prosecutors which offences should be dealt with by fixed penalty fines.
Penguin Nils Olav, who was previously made a Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Army has been knighted at Edinburgh Zoo.
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