Dan Barker

The traditional Christmas dip saw hundreds brave the cold on shoreline. Revellers in Santa red swimsuits and tinsel took the plunge at Edinburgh’s Portobello beach

Three years before John Profumo resigned in disgrace from Harold Macmillan's government, the then War Secretary was being urged to confront the Queen.

The Glenturret Lalique Restaurant in Crieff, Perthshire, is only the second in Scotland to have two to its name

A crackdown on landowners is backed up with ‘no evidence’ and amounts to ‘gambling with the future of rural Scotland’, it was claimed yesterday.

Officers leaving Police Scotland cited a lack of support from bosses, welfare issues and misogyny as reasons for their decisions. Scottish Police Federation chairman David Threadgold warns force faces ‘incessant demand against a backdrop of falling numbers’

Sam Kennedy had been visiting the city of Krakow but failed to get on flight home. Concerned family raised the alarm as he had not been in touch with them. Disappearance has echoes of case of Jay Slater, who is missing on Tenerife

Woman, 55, is arrested amid police probe into 'financial misconduct and missing ashes' at scandal hit funeral

Scotland's railway network could be plunged into yet more chaos as another union threatens to walkout. Hundreds of ScotRail workers could strike in September unless they win a 'credible' pay deal.

A mother-of-three was left fighting for her life after being hit by a taxi while on holiday. Stephanie Watson, 26, was hit by a taxi in Bulgaria just moments after arriving at Burgas Airport.

Some of Scotland's biggest selling musicians have demanded John Swinney takes action to avert a 'cultural catastrophe'.