A dispute over an MP’s £24 train ticket has left the taxpayer with a £27,000 legal bill.

Alice Jones' Arts Diary

Regimental flag is paraded for the last time after army reorganisation leads to infantry merger

A man who raped one woman and sexually assaulted another in the space of 15 minutes in a city centre street has been jailed for 10 years.

Newly-elected MP George Galloway has claimed he is the “Robin Hood” of British politics.

Scotland rugby international Max Evans was back at training today after being cleared of assaulting a man at a nightclub.

An MP suspended from the Labour Party after being charged with assault has said he will stand down from Parliament at the next general election, it was reported today.

Ed Miliband attacked Alex Salmond's desire to "split up" Britain today, and insisted: "We are one United Kingdom."

Now eleven years old, Ballet Black has a confidence and spark. Initially founded to promote black dancers in classical ballet, the company has become an end in itself. This is a taut evening of new work by rising and established choreographers, fluently staged and danced.

One year ago this month, Edinburgh's literary history welcomed the first chapter of a mysterious new instalment. A small sculpture featuring a tree carved delicately from the pages of a book was left by an anonymous visitor to the Scottish Poetry Library, alongside a bowl of printed words that combined to form the poem A Trace of Wings by the late Scots Makar (national poet) Edwin Morgan.

Businessman Brian Kennedy has confirmed he has held talks with Rangers' administrators about the future of the Clydesdale Bank Premier League side.

Scotland 17 France 23

Man-for-man marking from the Six Nations match at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh

Scotland 17 France 23