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Alex Salmond last night said he would return to frontline politics as soon as Nicola Sturgeon fires the starting gun for a second independence referendum.

A new drug-taking trend known as ‘brieing’ has seen a growing number of middle-class people taking MDMA wrapped in cheese, it was claimed yesterday.

Voters in England would rather the UK lost Scotland over Gibraltar, a new survey has revealed.

As a major international conference is taking shape, we consider how a global perspective can find ways to tackle issues around alcohol

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Prince Harry has been made the third Earl of Dumbarton - a title that has strong military connections.

The Scottish Government has contacted Marks & Spencer to ask why Scottish food and drink had been branded as being from Great Britain rather than Scotland, it has emerged.

As Meghan Markle is being shoehorned into her hand-stitched designer wedding gown and her soon-to-be husband is grooming his carefully cultivated facial hair and donning his military attire, a sleepy hamlet in East Lothian will be busy making preparations of their own for the big Royal wedding day.

I have spent the past few days in foreign climes doing my ambassadorial best to promote excellent Scottish products that create jobs and prosperity at home. A long-distance perspective on domestic politics does not improve the view.

Joe Thomson, Regius Professor and Scottish Law Commissioner. Born: 6 May 1948. Died: 12 May 2018, 
aged 70