THE operators of a new music venue have denied reports it will be forced to cancel top rock and pop acts because work on the 12,000-seat arena is months behind schedule.

IT IS Alasdair Gray’s masterpiece in his native part of Glasgow and one of the biggest pieces of public art in the country.

ONE of Scotland’s top chefs has split from the award- winning hotel where he made his name and is planning to open a rival restaurant.

THE first baby in the world born using a revolutionary IVF technique which greatly increases the chances of success is to be delivered in Scotland next month.

A LEADING heart hospital has defended the quality of its ­surgery after figures appeared to show high mortality rates.

THE partner of a convicted drug dealer was “terrified for her daughter” when she learned he had gone to the police following a house fire in which three people died, a court has heard.

THE number of women committing crime in Glasgow ­remains stubbornly high, despite a fall elsewhere in the country, new figures show.

A CITY council has apologised after concluding there are “undoubtedly” cases in which it dispersed the remains of cremated infants against the wishes of their parents.

A convicted drug dealer sent a Facebook message to a woman who lost her family in a house fire, telling her that he was “going to do the right thing”, a court has heard.

A MAN accused of murdering a father and his two children wanted to be “the top man” of a town, a court has heard.

SCOTLAND is “leading the way” in meeting the world’s energy needs of the future, First Minister Alex Salmond said today, as he opened Europe’s first “world class” electricity grid research centre.

HE WAS Glasgow’s answer to the Great Gatsby, who transformed the family drapery firm into one of the UK’s retail giants.

COMMANDER Chris Hadfield, who today returned to Earth after a 144-day stint on board the International Space Station, landed in Prestwick this afternoon to refuel.

THE plunging value of for-sale Prestwick airport contributed to a nose dive in its New Zealand owners’ profits, Infratil reported today.

A 20-year-old man is being reported to prosecutors after a driver was photographed holding a tablet device behind the wheel on the A8, near Glasgow

A picture taken in Glasgow, showing a man trying to vacuum up a puddle in the city centre, has gone viral, gaining thousands of ‘likes’ from amused viewers online.

A WORKER was seriously injured when a runaway rail vehicle hit scaffolding during work in a tunnel near Queen Street station in Glasgow, a report by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch revealed today.

THE DEATH of a man who fell from the third floor of Glasgow’s Buchanan Galleries shopping centre is suspected to be suicide.

THE Scottish SPCA is appealing for information after a dog was stabbed to death in a “barbaric” attack in Clydebank.

A MAN accused of murdering a father and his two children in a deliberate blaze told his co-accused he wanted a pub to be burned down, a court has heard.