Scotland’s weather: Snow and ice to hit overnight

All of us want our children to have the best chances in life and to reach their full potential. That is what Royal Blind believes children and young people with vision impairment deserve. Much has been achieved for disabled people in Scotland since devolution, including for those with vision impairment.

Teams of young people are being recruited to road test public transport across the Capital and the Lothians to devise improvements for the next generation of passengers.

Do we have the death penalty in the UK? Of course not, people say. Suspended in 1965 following a backbench MPs bill, the ban was made permanent four years later by Jim Callaghan when Home Secretary. The last person hanged in Scotland was Henry Burnett at Craiginches Prison, Aberdeen, in 1963, though two prisoners were hanged the following year in England.

Rangers have secured a banking facility for the first time since David Murray was owner of the Ibrox club, according to the Scottish Sun.

Vinnie Jones has revealed he held ‘secret talks’ with Rangers about a move to Ibrox during the Graeme Souness era.

Edinburgh Rugby could play their final match at Myreside as early as tomorrow evening as they prepare for a flit to the back pitches at BT Murrayfield next season.