TWO thugs who murdered a complete stranger were given life imprisonment today.
They’ll serve at least 35 years between them before they can apply for parole.
Matthew McFadden, 22, will spend a minimum of 20 years behind bars for smashing 36-year-old Robert Gardner’s skull with a paving stone.
Andrew Spark, 23, of Royal Terrace, Gourock, who stabbed Mr [...]

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In January 2006 the EU Commission introduced a minimum price on salmon imported from Norway, after Scottish salmon farmers claimed that Norwegian salmon was sold to EU nations at prices below production cost.
Norway has rejected EU claims that the Norwegian salmon industry is subsidized, and that the salmon is sold at dumping prices on the [...]

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Seven crew of a Spanish ship that had been detained in Ullapool Harbour for safety reasons have called in union officials over a pay dispute.
The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) maritime union is investigating the complaints made after the ship arrived at the Highland port.
Six Indonesian crew and a Chilean officer on the Enxembre claim [...]

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Under a cold, damp grey sky the muffled roar of water cascading down treeless hillsides, hewing its way through the granite bedrock, provides almost the only sound amid a glen of tranquillity.
Alladale Estate lies less than 25 miles and world away from the modern bustling city centre of Inverness, yet it is at the forefront [...]

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Radioactive waste exported to Peru from Scotland almost 10 years ago has been returned to the Dounreay nuclear plant in Caithness.
It has emerged that 2.9 tonnes of thorium nitrate arrived safely at the site on Wednesday after a marathon sea and road trip from South America.
The waste was originally produced at the Caithness nuclear plant [...]

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Almost a third of people in Scotland think a woman can partly be to blame if she is raped, a Scottish Executive survey has shown.
The study was carried out as part of the executive’s campaign against domestic violence.
Women’s groups reacted with alarm to the findings and said it could help explain why only about 4% [...]

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A flight from the Dominican Republic was quarantined for 90 minutes after landing at Glasgow Airport.
A total of 27 holidaymakers on the MyTravel service complained of sickness and diarrhoea.
The plane, which landed at 0500 BST, was met by doctors and consultants from Health Protection Scotland. Passengers were let away at 0630 BST after checks.
Sick passengers [...]

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TWO Edinburgh families were cheated out of around £100,000 each in a bogus scheme selling luxury villas in a Turkish holiday resort.
The victims were targeted in the south-west of the country when they were convinced to invest in properties at the Golden Beach complex in Altinkum.
They are among 500 victims from the UK and Ireland [...]

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FARMERS yesterday said the ban on meat exports, imposed following the outbreak of foot and mouth in England, should be lifted early in Scotland.
The three-month ban was brought in after the discovery of the virus on a farm in Surrey.
Last time foot-and-mouth hit Britain, it led to the culling of between 6.5 and ten million [...]

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AN ATTEMPT by the SNP-led Scottish Executive to secure an amnesty for 1,400 asylum-seeking families in Scotland has been rejected by UK ministers, it emerged last night.
Fiona Hyslop, the education secretary, set out the Executive’s approach to asylum seekers yesterday, calling for all families who had been in Scotland since March 2006 to be given [...]

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