07/01/2009 - Top Offers of the Week

IT was a fitting send-off for a man never shy of making a big noise on both the local and national stage.

ROLLING Stone Ronnie Wood may be best known for his rock'n'roll lifestyle, but he is hoping to gain attention for something a little more refined with the opening of a

A BID is being mounted to have the Forth Bridge join Edinburgh's Old and New Towns in being named a World Heritage Site.

A CAMPAIGN to save churches and charities from paying for water charges has been named the UK's best public affairs initiative of 2008.

A FULL debate on funding the new Forth Road Bridge is to be staged in the Scottish Parliament next week as the row over how to pay for the £2 billion project escalates.

BOSSES of the Edinburgh International Film Festival are to screen the hit film Mamma Mia! at the Capital's Festival Theatre to see if the venue is suitable for gala premie

An international IT services company has helped raise more than £4000 for a Lothians children's respite home.

FIVE Scottish towns that will be the most blighted by widespread high-street closures have been named today.

THE age of criminal responsibility in Scotland could be raised from eight to at least 12 in a radical change to the law, it emerged yesterday.

THE Scottish Government last night snubbed a Conservative offer of talks over how to fund the new bridge over the Forth.

A TEENAGER who was born in prison was yesterday ordered to be locked up for 11 years for stabbing a youth to death in a street fight.

A TEENAGER has been arrested after attacks on the home of a teacher who was convicted of assaulting pupils.

SCOTS scientists claim they have achieved a breakthrough in efforts to use hydrogen to provide clean electricity.

RIVERS froze over, schools closed and motorists faced perilous driving conditions yesterday as the big chill hit Scotland.

A HEARTBROKEN father yesterday led tributes to his "loving" son, killed in a crash two weeks before his 17th birthday.

SCOTLAND'S property market has bucked the UK's downward trend with new figures showing a rise in house prices in the last quarter.

SCOTLAND'S two leading prisoners' charities have united in condemning plans to create a new "super prison" in the north east of Scotland.

A MASSIVE overhaul of Scotland's legal services market will take a big step forward today.

AN MSP'S elderly relative had to wait for eight hours on a hospital trolley before being found a bed, it was claimed yesterday.