BBC News: Scotland

24 May 2012 Last updated at 23:18 ET

Scottish 'Yes' campaign to launch

The official campaign encouraging people to vote "yes" in the Scottish independence referendum is to be launched, ahead of a possible vote in 2014.

Researchers are carrying out clinical trials to find out if women with autoimmune diseases could be helped by hormones found in pregnancy.

Scotland's most senior law officer meets Libya's interim prime minister in London to discuss further investigations into the Lockerbie bombing.

'No savings' in nuclear rail plan

Moving nuclear material from Dounreay to Sellafield will not result in a "meaningful saving" that can be spent on communities, local authorities are told.
Border landmark plans examined

The public gets a chance to comment on plans for a £4.2m landmark sculpture on the Scotland-England border at Gretna.
Male 'contraceptive gene' found

It may be possible to develop a new form of male contraceptive after researchers in Edinburgh identified a critical gene for the production of healthy sperm.
Boy charged after school death
Man admits restaurant bomb threat
MSPs pass Scots booze price plan
Bus lane fines to be cancelled
Sun brings more high temperatures
Murder trial hears of 'tensions'
Woman charged after police crash
Community service for Celtic tweet
'Booze cruise' passengers rescued
Watercolour stolen from framers

Police secondment plan under fire

A move to second the deputy chief constable of Dumfries and Galloway to a group examining police reforms comes in for criticism.
Concerns over 'armed shipments'
As-it-happened: First Minister's Questions

Hewlett-Packard cuts 27,000 jobs

Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest computer maker, is to cut 27,000 jobs by the end of 2014 as part of a drive to "simplify" the business.
University secures Korea contract
Free banking 'a dangerous myth'

Gers CVA proposal due by Monday

Rangers' administrators are expected to put in a proposal to bring the club out of administration via a Creditors' Voluntary Agreement by Monday.
Motherwell unsure on Rangers vote
Di Resta ignoring top-team links

30 crann a bharrachd do dh'Ìsginn?

Oighrerachd Ìsginn ann an Leòdhas airson 30 crann-gaoithe a bharrachd a chur ri leasachadh a tha san amharc aca.
Cùmhnadh san Eaglais Shaoir
Dòchas mu obraichean UBC

Scottish Parliament Watch

MSPs vote to pass the Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) Bill after its final debate in the chamber on 24 May 2012.

Who benefited?

Rangers players and staff who were beneficiaries of the Murray Group Remuneration Trust
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