Scotland will become the first country in the UK to directly incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into domestic law.
Borders council boss Shona Haslam has hit back at allegations of promoting sectarianism during her failed bid to swap Newtown for Westminster.
Further Education Lecturers across Scotland are on strike again today (Tuesday) and tomorrow in a continuing dispute over management's refusal to honour a deal that was signed over one year ago.
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