Former TV presenter John Leslie sells Scottish home for £715k

SNP backbencher sparked an angry backlash for suggesting it's "healthy" to debate who should be allowed to have sex. John Mason said freedom of speech laws allow him to "debate" what consenting adults do in Scotland.

Janey Godley has thanked her fans for buying her merchandise and raising almost £20,000 for the STV Children's Appeal. Janey Godley is best known for providing the country with light-hearted relief with her sweary takes on the First Minister 's daily speeches on coronavirus in Scotland.

studies.Agriculture student Johanna Maria, 22, is heading to Dundee to research barley breeding for six months, as part of her dissertation.She couldn’t afford the £2000 flight costs for her 14-year-old Shetland pony Hechizo – and couldn’t bear to be without him for such a long time.So she set out from her home in Halle, Germany, in February, with Hechizo – whose name means magic in Spanish – dragging all her belongings on a cart.Her father drove her to Spain for a work placement – and, from

independent "by accident" and Wales could follow, a veteran former Welsh first minister claimed. Carwyn Jones, who served in the post for a decade, said the UK Government has to move to a more equal partnership across all the nations of the UK or watch as the state breaks up.

post-Brexit trade envoy has been condemned by Nicola Sturgeon as a "sexist, misogynist and climate change denier" who should not represent the country abroad. Scotland's First Minister ripped into the legacy of former Australian PM Tony Abbott, who is being lined up for the job by Boris Johnson.

Richard Leonard has hired a top spin doctor to help turn around his flagging fortunes.Andy Whitaker, who was head of strategic communications for former shadow chancellor John McDonnell, starts in post on Wednesday.Leonard has been in the job for nearly three years, but has suffered devastating defeats at the ballot box.Scottish Labour slumped to fifth at the European election and lost six of their seven seats at the general election.Get all the top Scottish politics news sent straight to your

The Great British Bake Off in 2012.

address claims senior government staff were advised not to be alone with Alex Salmond during his time as First Minister. Leslie Evans had initially told members of a Holyrood committee last week that she could not comment on the matter, prompting criticism from opposition MSPs.

Kevin Bridges, Frankie Boyle and Fred MacAulay are among a group of performers calling on the Scottish government to provide emergency funding to help Scotland’s comedy scene survive the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tesco store is a former Tory councillor and UKIP parliamentary candidate. Nigel Wright, who is facing up to 14 years behind bars after being found guilty of the twisted Bitcoin blackmail plot, first won a seat for the Conservatives in 2003.

Boris Johnson spent his holiday hiding out in a tepee near a £1200-a-week cottage in the Highlands.Despite the UK battling the coronavirus pandemic and a recession, the Prime Minister chose to go glamping at a remote three-bedroom rental in Lonbain, Applecross, with fiancee Carrie Symonds, their baby Wilfred and their dog Dilyn.Johnson sparked fury this week as he left his deputies to deal with the fallout over the school exams grading scandal in England while he enjoyed his family jollies.It’s

Scottish independence in the future, the Deputy First Minister has said. John Swinney hit back at a comment from Tory minister Michael Gove who had questioned whether the voting franchise should remain the same as the 2014 referendum.

farmer has been found guilty of planting baby food laced with shards of metal in stores as part of a lengthy blackmail campaign against Tesco. Nigel Wright, 45, hatched a plot to get rich by deliberately contaminating jars of Heinz baby food between May 2018 and February 2020, the Old Bailey heard.

stalker bombarded Jeremy Vine co-host Storm Huntley with threatening and sexualised messages over social media. Michael Craig Sterling, 38, subjected the Scottish TV presenter to a torrent of disturbing content for more than a year, Teesside Crown Court heard.He was today handed a hospital order after pleading guilty to a charge of "pursuing a course of conduct amounting to stalking".

devolution.The Abolish the Scottish Parliament party launched itself on social media earlier this month and aims to do what it says on the tin - scrap Holyrood and return Scotland to direct rule from London.But the leader of the anti-devolution movement insists he's not being undemocratic with his demands, despite 74% of Scots backing the creation of a parliament at a referendum in 1997.John Mortimer told the Record the reality of devolution in 2020 was very different to the idea Scottish voters

Hamish, the first polar bear cub to be born in the UK for a quarter of a century, is set to leave Scotland for a new life south of the border.

Police Scotland and the country’s top prosecutor – the Lord Advocate – over the case. And BBC Scotland says it has seen a legal letter from Lord Advocate James Wolffe’s office that states: “The Lord Advocate intends to issue a public apology that Mr Ahmad should never have been prosecuted.

Mae Hamilton A charming contemporary-inspired traditional-style home owned by “Grey’s Anatomy” star Kevin McKidd, a kind-of-Colonial-meets-Cape-Cod mashup, has come available for rent at $15,000 a month. The Scottish actor shelled out a little more than $2.9 million for the family-sized residence a little more than two years ago, but it’s not clear that he ever lived in the house himself.