THE owners of a five-star hotel that closed suddenly have called in another hotel chain to help out brides let down just weeks before their weddings.

A MUSIC teacher faces losing her job after she drove on a motorway when she was more than four times the legal drink drive limit with two girls in the back of the car.

SCOTTISH researchers are to lead a major UK study into one of the world’s most devastating but least understood killer infections.

SCOTLAND’S main train operator is seeking a new supplier to deliver 48 million litres of diesel a year – by road.

The £31 million ScotRail contract, involving some 1,500 tanker movements, comes despite ministers urging further reductions in the environmental impact of railways.

FOOD scientists are to discuss the future of what goes on our plates at a festival in Edinburgh.

Dumfries is one of the UK’s broadband blackspots, according to research by uSwitch.com.

Rich people are more likely than the poor to receive NHS treatment for heart disease, according to the public spending watchdog.

SCOTTISH prosecutors have asked the new Libyan government for access to information and documents relating to the Lockerbie bombing.

OIL tycoon Sir Ian Wood has made an 11th-hour appeal to the public to back his controversial plans for the transformation of Aberdeen’s Union Terrace Gardens.

THE Scottish housing market has “plateaued” and shows no sign of “vigorous recovery”, according to a new report.

THE SNP had outstanding loans of more than £500,000 at the end of 2011, newly released figures have revealed.

THE thoughts of Mrs Bone, a matron of a quiet middle England town, may not be familiar to Scottish voters, but for some time now they have been influencing government policy on a range of issues.

THE SNP has insisted that the 44,341 under-18s already on the electoral register in Scotland would be given the vote in the independence referendum.

SCOTTISH Secretary Michael Moore has opened up a new front in the referendum power struggle between Westminster and Holyrood by demanding it is held in September next year.

ALEX Salmond’s post-independence plan to put Scotland’s oil billions into a massive investment fund for the future would require either a cut in funding for schools, hospitals and roads, or an increase in the country’s debt, a major independent think-tank has declared.

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A LANDSLIDE blackspot was closed yesterday for the second time in two months after up to 50 tonnes of debris slid down the hillside towards the road.

EMBATTLED Rangers boss Craig Whyte used borrowed money from the sale of season tickets as proof of funds to convince Sir David Murray to sell him the club, former chairman Alastair Johnston has claimed.

TWO Rangers supporters have been jailed for a total of eight months and banned from attending any football match involving a senior British team for four years.

THE rector of St Andrews University has resigned his membership of an all-male club in support of a new splinter group that will admit women.