Craig Gordon has been included in the Scotland squad for the game against Brazil on Sunday week, despite not featuring for his club side for five weeks.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Scottish Dance Theatre is touring with a new programme of work created especially for the company by two emerging US choreographers, Kate Weare (Lay Me Down Safe) and Benjamin Levy (Khaos).

Neil Lennon will not walk away from Celtic despite threats made against him, according to his agent Martin Reilly.

Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, will warn today of a "cost of living crisis" that will leave middle-income earners struggling even if the economy recovers.

The Government is to provide more than £100 million of extra money to deal with potholes on roads.

The internet is responsible for a mass of words and phrases entering the lexicon. There's the verb "to friend", along with all its associated conjugations. There's the noun "webinar", one which has the capacity to trigger apoplexy in even the most mild-mannered office worker. But one of the most omnipresent has to be "dotcom". The .com domain was coined during a series of rather dry meetings in the USA back in October 1984; a time when only the most prescient of daydreamers could have imagined ".com" appended to the name of every major company in the world to create the commercial web as we know it.

The Labour Leader asks the Prime Minister how his Big Society is getting on.

More than half of British adults believe that the average family's standard of living has declined since the start of the credit crunch in 2007, according to a survey from Scottish Provident.

East Stirlingshire have been expelled from the Scottish Cup after fielding an ineligible player in their fourth-round win over Buckie Thistle, the Scottish Football Association have confirmed.

A letter said to have been taken from the Scots hero William Wallace when he was captured by English forces should be returned to Scotland, historians have said.

Startlingly aestheticised Scots-Gaelic folk, as poised, glistening and "pure" as a raindrop trembling on the rim of a leaf.

The death toll from flu since September is now 254. Last week, the figure was 195, with 112 cases reported of the H1N1 infection.

Outlook And finally... this should, of course, be a new year's resolution for us all. But in his short term in office, Mr Osborne has so far taken anarrow view of who falls into the vulnerable category.

Craig Brown admits that he is being a "bit selfish" in quitting Motherwell for a "better job" at Aberdeen but defended his right to change his mind.