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Zia Yusuf announced he was standing down on Thursday, after criticising the party’s newest MP.

Ballot boxes began arriving at South Lanarkshire Council’s headquarters just after 10pm.

The seat was vacated after the death of Scottish Government minister Christina McKelvie.

The Conservative leader is expected to set out her plans for a commission about whether the UK should leave the European Convention on Human Rights.

The injured boy has since been discharged from hospital.

Search teams wound down the operation in Atalaia, near Lagos, Portugal, on Thursday, after three days of scouring scrubland and abandoned structures.

Water scarcity continues to increase in parts of the north and north-east.

School children in the UK have been playing EnergyTown which is funded by the Norwegian oil major.

He recruited his girlfriend and her friend to bring £600,000 of cannabis into the UK from Thailand.

It comes after the EIS union found 44% of teachers work an additional seven unpaid hours in a typical week.

John Swinney was asked about claims from a voiceover artist that ScotRail had used her voice for its AI announcer without her knowledge.

Kayden Moy died following an incident on Irvine beach in North Ayrshire last month.

Two worked for health boards and the other two were directors of a telecommunications firm.

Clive Burgoyne, 38, left four poisoned pheasant carcasses on a neighbouring estate in Angus.

The SS Eagle sank off Arran on November 28, 1859 after colliding with a sailing boat.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar pressed the First Minister on plans for the neonatal intensive care unit at University Hospital Wishaw.

New rules ban bonuses if a water company does not meet environmental or consumer standards or does not meet financial resilience requirements.

The Tory leader raised the issue after police made 41 arrests following a spate of shootings, firebombings and assaults across central Scotland.

Healthcare Improvement Scotland worked with RNIB Scotland to hear feedback from women who have faced barriers in accessing screening.

The searches began on Tuesday in an area of scrubland on the outskirts of Lagos, Portugal.