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Kyle Lafferty aims to use Hearts move as springboard to World Cup

Dementia strategy targets improvements in support for sufferers

2,600 Nursing and Midwifery training places to be created by 2021

Opt out system for organ donation to be brought in in Scotland

Hearts have two fixtures reversed due to construction work at Tynecastle

Power cut delays flights at Edinburgh Airport

1 in 4 Scots saving nothing for retirement

Rise in racist bullying after terror attacks says Childline

Minister ignoring "major risk" of NHS staff shortages, Doctors' leader to claim

School reform proposals to be debated by MSPs

Hearts continue talks with Kyle Lafferty

Bill passed to merge transport police with Police Scotland despite opposition

Napier University Bainfield Halls have same cladding as Grenfell

Second independence vote being postponed, Nicola Sturgeon tells MSPs

Speaker rejects SNP request to debate government's £1 billion DUP deal

Jewellery store targeted in Gleneagles hotel robbery

Lloyds Banking Group set to miss deadline for HBOS fraud compensation offers

30% of offenders tested positive for illegal drugs when leaving prison

Jeremy Corbyn backs calls for transport policing merger to be scrapped

Cancer charity 'disappointed' after waiting-times targets missed

Nicola Sturgeon statement on Indyref2

MSPs to vote on merging transport police

City Deals should prioritise tackling poverty, charity says

Police forensic services improvements not delivered, watchdog says

Greenpeace voyage highlights impact of plastic pollution on Scotland's coastlines

Sturgeon and Jones unite in condemnation of UK Government-DUP Deal

Financial services firm to create 300 jobs in Edinburgh

Allan Dell and Anton Bresler sign new Edinburgh deals

Study finds middle-aged office workers more sedentary than over-75s

Student killed in road crash awarded posthumous degree by Napier University

Giant aircraft carrier to set sail today

Labour to bring forward bill to ban fracking in Scotland

Union leaders plan summer campaign against NHS pay cap

Cystic fibrosis patients to protest at lack of availability of Orkambi drug

Ministers urged to develop ‘overarching strategy’ to tackle gender pay gap

Exposure to sunlight could hold key to alleviating eczema