The Justice Secretary hopes the move will also help clear the court backlog of cases waiting to be dealt with.

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Alex Salmond’s body will be returned from North Macedonia on a chartered plane paid for by an unnamed private individual.

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United Utilities did not report at least 102 million litres of illegal sewage pollution to regulators, a BBC analysis found.

Six separate ScotRail services were cancelled on the Kyle, Far North and Inverness-Aberdeen lines on Thursday due to the ...

Conservative MP Chris Philp asked the Government to ‘come clean and tell the truth’ over the police escort arrangements for ...

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Counter terrorism police are investigating whether Russian spies planted a bomb in a parcel that caught fire at a delivery ...

A new artwork to celebrate an iconic Gaelic poet is to be commissioned and displayed at the Inverness Gaelic centre – ...

It comes after former Lord Mayor Niall O Donnghaile quit Sinn Fein after allegedly sending inappropriate texts to a teenager.