The funeral of a Scottish-based soldier killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan will take place today.

MILITARY facilities across the country were on alert yesterday, after the savage attack on a young soldier.

A DISCOVERY which has revealed how nerve cells grow in fish could help research on the debilitating and fatal condition motor neurone disease, Scottish experts believe.

PASSENGERS will be riding the trams in Edinburgh by the end of the year, a former consultant to the £776 million project has predicted.

Edinburgh Castle is to host a re-enactment of a frontline military service, commencing a five-year commemoration of the centenary of the First World War.

A £20 million state-of-the-art recycling centre will shut next week, just over a year after it first opened.

ONE of the greatest masterpieces of British art will go on show in Scotland thanks to a UK deal to save the iconic work for the nation.

A divorce judge today signalled the end of singer KT Tunstall’s marriage to drummer Luke Bullen.

Novelist Alexander McCall Smith has spoken out against the dark depiction of Scotland by his fellow Scottish writers.

The debate on Scottish independence is focused on “political point-scoring” that is “turning people off”, the Church of Scotland’s Church and Society Council said today.

The Flag of Europe outside the Scottish Parliament has been replaced after it was spotted flying with just 11 stars.

A CELEBRATION of the Forth bridges is set to cost city taxpayers £50,000, it emerged today.

A PERVERT who bombarded an autistic 13-year-old girl with sexually explicit Facebook messages has avoided jail in a move today branded as “a slap in the face for the victims and their family”.

Portraits of “forgotten” pets who have spent months waiting to be rehomed are to feature in a new art 
exhibition.

A year in the Capital as told through the pages of the Evening News is to be the subject of a major art installation.

TRADERS across the Capital are preparing for a bumper payday from the traditional late May bank 
holiday weekend.

A WIDOW is to run the Edinburgh Half Marathon in memory of her husband on what would have been his 40th birthday – despite having a fractured ankle.

DETECTIVES today said that a glove left behind by an armed robber who targeted a George Street jewellers was a “crucial error” which led to his capture.

A JUNIOR football match was abandoned after a committee member collapsed with a suspected heart attack as he put out the half-time teas for the players.

FORMER Labour MP Dennis Canavan has said MP Eric Joyce should resign before the next general election after being arrested during a fracas at Edinburgh Airport.