Sir Tom Hunter and BrewDog co-founder pledge £1m to kick-start funding competition for businesses

Police are 'concerned' after school pupils were repeatedly spotted hanging around the M8. Officers are warning youths to stay away from the busy motorway 'before someone gets seriously injured.' It comes after they received a number of sightings between J4a Heartlands and junction 4 Whitburn this week.

Nicola Sturgeon's lockdown announcement has given the green light for more businesses across Scotland to reopen. The First Minister confirmed that the next stage of the roadmap will take place next week allowing mainland Scotland - with the exception of Moray - to move down to Level 2.

on the constitution and whether the SNP leader has a mandate for another referendum on Scottish independence. Putting that argument to one side, the First Minister already faces a daunting list of domestic issues which urgently require her attention.

defeated Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar by 19,735 votes to 10,279, the First Minister said her party is set for a fourth term in power. The SNP leader had played down the likelihood of an overall SNP majority at Holyrood, saying it has “always been a very, very long shot”.

Lions attack in their three-match series against the Springboks. Gatland was speaking immediately after naming eight Scots in his 37-man tour squad.It is the country’s biggest representation on a Lions tour since Finlay Calder led a squad containing nine to Australia in 1989.Stuart Hogg, Duhan van der Merwe, Chris Harris, Ali Price, Rory Sutherland, Zander Fagerson and Hamish Watson are the other Scots selected.

Sir Andy Murray has been included on a “Celebrity Investments Index” – alongside names such as Madonna, Ashton Kutcher and Leonardo DiCaprio – for his role as a multi-million-pound investor in the tech sector. The Scottish tennis legend was found to have helped serve up an investment portfolio worth more than £11m as part of the study of the business activities of 30 A-listers.

schoolboy son had smothered himself in her fake tan while she was out at work - leaving him looking like a muddy 'swamp monster'. Cheeky lad Kris Way had swiped his mum's bottle of St Moriz medium tan from the side of the bath and doused himself in it while oblivious dad Kris Way, 23, sat in the living room.

sickening child porn images at his family home in Broughty Ferry, near Dundee. Andrews pled guilty to taking or permitting to be taken indecent images or pseudo images of children in Seafield Road between 8 and 11 November 2019.Andrews, 54, was the Director of Operations at the National Phenotypic Screening Centre in Dundee when his home was raided by police acting on information.

Edinburgh nursery. The alarm was raised at the Lanark Road Nursery at around 7.19am on Wednesday, May 5, after smoke could be seen coming from the building.

link!The Breastfeeding Friendly Scotland logo and signage indicates that staff are aware of their obligation under the law, and families can be assured of an extra warm welcome.Membership of the BFS scheme demonstrates a business understands and accommodates the needs of breastfeeding families.UNICEF Babyfriendly found that four out of five women stop breastfeeding before they want to.Around half (50.3 per cent) of mothers in Lanarkshire breastfeed at birth, dropping to fewer than one in three

here.Rice also earns £465 a day for 78 days’ work as chair for the Scottish Fiscal Commission, an economic watchdog that produces five-year forecasts on Scotland’s financial health.

arrested in charged in connection with a spate of high-value thefts within a number of areas in Scotland. The pair were cuffed after good were robbed from business premises across the Forth Valley.

For many, Scotland-based Mark Millar is living the comic book creator's dream. As a writer, he worked for both DC and Marvel Comics — the latter of which even saw him influence the big screen by making classic character Nick Fury a Black man.

lockdown restrictions ease across the country. Mainland Scotland has now moved to level three with shops, hospitality and gyms re-opening, and travel around the UK now permitted.

Anstruther, Fife, were called to Elie after a female phoned the UK coastguard on Friday morning when she fell on the notorious Chain Walk. She was transferred Ellie Harbour so paramedics could assess her.