Scotland, United Kingdom News

American TV is making a special programme starring singing sensation Susan Boyle.

Students from St Andrews University take part in a foam fight as part of the traditional Raisin Monday celebrations in St Andrews, Scotland, yesterday.

Stormy seas lash the railway line at Saltcoats on the Ayrshire coast. Chris Watt Published on 19 Nov 2009 Scotland faces more stormy weather today with torrential rain on already saturated ground likely to aggravate problems in the south and west.

Councils across the south and east of Scotland are to follow the lead of their west coast counterparts with radical proposals to pool a raft of services in an attempt to save tens of millions of pounds.

North Lanarkshire, along with 7 other Scottish councils, must thrash out which recommendations to pursue Exclusive: Gerry Braiden Published on 23 Nov 2009 The most radical proposals to shake up Scottish local democracy in a generation are revealed today, including plans to merge health and social care for a third of the countrya s population.

Just the look of haggis is enough to put a lot of people off the delicacy. Photo / British Tourist Authority It's more than a little unfair that the deep-fried Mars Bar became a symbol of Scottish cuisine.

Finale time in Scotland as the 2009 Intercontinental Rally Challenge season comes to a close.

A passer-by rescued a six-year-old boy from a house fire, emergency services have said.

A search is being launched after a man was seen in a river, police said. Central Scotland Police said a member of the public spotted the man at around 9.05pm on Thursday night in the River Carron in Falkirk.

Fun trip to Murrayfield for Scotland v Fiji.....lots of happy Scottish faces after the win, boys in fancydress, stag parties galore, chuc-chucs ferrying folks home in the rain, great cocktails in an Italian Jazz bar and running to catch last train back home on a busy busy Saturday night train heading South.

A drop-in centre for veterans set up by the parents of a hero soldier killed in Afghanistan has been officially opened.

A POLICE officer posed as a hitman to snare an Edinburgh businessman who wanted to have his own cousin "kneecapped". Mohammed Javid Iqbal struck a deal with the undercover policeman to pay A 1400 for Atta Mohammed to be shot in both knees over a family feud.

ANN Ritchie of the SNP has been elected to Falkirk Council as a Bo'ness and Blackness representative.

A MAN is facing a life sentence after admitting that he murdered his neighbour by stabbing him in the head with a broken golf club.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2009 - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen today predicted the alliance's future mission in Afghanistan will entail a counterinsurgency approach with "substantially more troops." The NATO chief, speaking to the alliance's Parliamentary Assembly, said he expects NATO will reach a troop-level decision in a few weeks for ...

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Plans for a new passenger ferry service across the Forth have been drawn up and are to be considered by councillors in Edinburgh next week.

Flood warnings were issued across Scotland, northern England and Wales today as forecasters predicted further heavy downpours in the next few days.

NORTH east beer company BrewDog took a step closer to creating an eco-brewery near Potterton, as Formartine councillors recommended the application be approved at the local authority's full council meeting next week.

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