Rangers' debts increase to £31m
Rangers FC made a loss of nearly £13m last year, compared with a profit of £7.2m the previous year.

Man and uncle jailed for murder
A 25-year-old man and his 44-year-old uncle are jailed for the murder of their neighbour after a long-running feud.

Murderers make fresh appeal bids
Two of Scotland's most high-profile killers, Nat Fraser and Luke Mitchell, try to persuade judges to re-examine their cases.

Polls open in Glasgow by-election
Voters go to the polls in Glasgow North East to elect a new MP for the seat vacated by Speaker Michael Martin.

Sell drugs in shops - think tank
Purchasing cocaine in UK pharmacies is one of the ideas presented in a new book by the think tank Transform setting out how drugs could be regulated.

MPs want hacker transfer halted
The extradition to the US of computer hacker Gary McKinnon should be halted owing to his "precarious" mental health, say MPs.

Bug outbreak 'identified quickly'
Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon is confident the Clostridium Difficile outbreak at a Dundee hospital was identified quickly.

Thousands still tune in to black and white televisions
Almost 30,000 people across the UK still tune into their favourite programmes on black and white television sets.

Dounreay to become UK's first nuclear heritage site?
Dounreay could become the UK's first nuclear heritage site under plans by the company dismantling the complex.

Slump hits 260 bus builder jobs in Scotland
The UK's biggest bus builder, Alexander Dennis, says 260 jobs are at risk at its Falkirk base due to lack of demand.

STV eyes model for ITV 'divorce'
STV calls for reform in the way the ITV network is run as the row over its decision to drop shows like The Bill continues.

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English top flight rejects Old Firm
Premier League chairmen reject a proposal to bring Celtic and Rangers into English football's top flight.

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Stepanek knocks out tired Murray
Andy Murray is knocked out of the Paris Masters in the third round by Radek Stepanek in three sets.

Going without
Figures show Scots are giving up food to pay off debts

Top stories
A round up of the stories you have been reading

Fall of the Wall
Huw Williams on a touch of velvet that toppled a regime

By-election battle
BBC Scotland's James Cook profiles Glasgow North East

Your pictures
A selection of photographs taken across Scotland

Man beaten for telling off youths
A man who told off youths who were causing a disturbance is beaten with a golf club and baseball bat, police say.

Woman fined for dog attack on boy
A pensioner whose dog escaped and bit a five-year-old boy on his face is fined £200 and ordered to pay £350 in compensation.

Widower leaves £1m for lifeboats
A sailing enthusiast from Fife who was once rescued by the RNLI gifts his entire fortune to the lifeboat charity.

Robbers with knives raid DIY shop
Police hunt two men who carried out an armed raid and threatened a worker at a DIY store in a retaill park in Bishopbriggs.

'Woolly bear' in rare canal finds
A rare moth's caterpillar which according to folklore is an indicator of winter conditions is among rare finds on Scotland's canals.

Man arrested after robbery bids
A 26-year-old man is detained by police investigating a robbery, and an attempted robbery, in Lanarkshire.

Two new schools to replace five
A council is to submit plans to the government for two schools to replace two in Lochaber and three in Easter Ross.

Report on aircraft crash released
A probe into why a light aircraft crashed on Cairn Gorm reports that the pilot was not qualified to fly in the conditions.

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A pine marten heads to the city
A curious pine marten is photographed as it appears on a night-time forage on the outskirts of Inverness.

Biker killed in lorry crash named
A man killed when his motorcycle burst into flames in a collision with a lorry on an Aberdeenshire road is named.

RAF compensation meeting held
Families fighting for compensation for the RAF Kinloss Nimrod explosion that killed 14 men meet the armed forces minister.

Lost fisherman search called off
A search for a 28-year-old deckhand lost overboard from a fishing boat in the North Sea is called off by the coastguard.

Police examine fatal fire cause
A 50-year-old man has died following an early morning house fire in Stranraer in the south west of Scotland, police confirm.

Man in court over firework blaze
A 17-year-old appears in court accused of starting a blaze which caused damage of £20,000 to a house in the Borders.

School staff attack figures rise
Attacks on staff working in schools in the Scottish Borders rise by 60% over the last three years.

School access restricted by fire
Pupils attending Alva Academy gain restricted access to their school as firefighters work to end a fire that destroyed a printer factory in the village.

'Three times limit' driver fined
A woman has been fined £1,000 after being caught more than three times over the drink-drive limit.

Mental health plan prompts anger
A mental health charity accuses Angus Council of putting cost before welfare after it unveiled plans to withdraw funding.

MSPs reject short jail terms ban
Holyrood's justice committee votes in favour of keeping short prison sentences, instead of giving offenders community service.

Scottish unemployment up by 4,000
The number of people unemployed in Scotland rises to 194,000 in the last quarter, 67,000 more than last year.

Crunch 'hampering' class size cut
Education Secretary Fiona Hyslop tells a Holyrood committee the recession has slowed progress on cutting class sizes.

What the Scottish papers say
The stories making the headlines in Scotland's newspapers.