Darren McGarvey: Comparing Sturgeon to Thatcher is deeply offensive

Neil Diamond has announced he is retiring from touring after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

Doctors and nurses are being “diverted away” from frontline care in Scotland’s under-siege hospitals to deal with paperwork and “politically imposed” targets, one of the country’s most senior medics has warned.

Hundreds more Scots children are living in temporary accommodation, such as B&Bs, as homelessness starts to rise again in Scotland, official figures today show.

With the announcement today that Michael O’Neill has rejected the vacant Scotland job, who are the bookies favourites to take the job.

With the news that Michael O’Neill has rejected the opportunity to become the new Scotland boss the SFA return to square one.

Bournemouth defender Baily Cargill trained with his new Partick Thistle team-mates for the first time yesterday morning and, all being well, he should have a baptism of fire when Ladbrokes Premiership leaders Celtic make the short journey across Glasgow to face the Jags this evening.