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The US senator who is to chair a congressional inquiry into the Lockerbie bomber release says he may send investigators to the UK.

NK Maribor prove too strong for Hibs in the Europa League third round qualifier first leg with a three-goal win in Slovenia.

Jamie Murphy is on target as Motherwell draw with Aalesunds in the Europa League third round qualifier first leg in Norway.

Edinburgh's openside flanker Roddy Grant says he is "honoured" to be named as the club's new captain.

The Big Noise community orchestra from Stirling's Raploch estate perform at Stirling Castle for the first time.

A man appears in court charged with murder following the death of a man found injured outside a West Dunbartonshire pub.

A teenager admits knocking down and killing a father in a hit-and-run incident in Edinburgh in June last year.

A woman appears in court for a second time charged with murdering a 63-year-old woman in Aberdeenshire.

A man is treated for minor injuries after explosions in a container believed to be storing detonators in Inverness.

A boy has been rescued from the water after his dinghy was blown out to sea off the coast of Leven in Fife.

A man who went missing on Christmas Eve in Glasgow in 1984 is traced to an unmarked grave more than 25 years later.

A man caught jumping up and down naked on a trampoline in the early hours of the morning avoids jail.

A teenager is charged with attempted murder after a couple are attacked during a break in at their Renfrewshire home.

A court hears a psychiatrist did not want to release a man from hospital three days before he stabbed his mother to death.

A broadsword celebrating a Scots knight who carried the heart of King Robert the Bruce into battle is sold at auction.

A lack of first aid skills is leading to unnecessary deaths and thousands of injuries, on Scotland's mountains according to one charity.

Scottish Secretary Michael Moore is to visit Moray, amid fears for the future of the area's two RAF bases.

A man admits trying to rape a girl in Fife who was walking home because she thought she had missed her bus.

Experts find new colonies of prehistoric shrimp

Up to 60,000 people working in the public sector in Scotland could lose their jobs, according to an independent review commissioned by ministers.