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Stormy seas ahead for £2.2bn North Sea merger

Alcohol-related deaths at highest level since 2010

More than 30 motorbikes seized in police crackdown on anti-social use

Population increases to 5.4 million as migration rises again

Trump says Indyref2 would be 'terrible'

Former SNP MP Michelle Thomson will not face prosecution in fraud probe

Murder accused "involved in fight" with victims sons, court hears

Only 11% of children meeting daily exercise guidelines

Husband of missing Nusrat Jahan makes plea for information

British Gas electricity hike will hit those on poor value targets

Man appears in court in connection with Gleneagles armed robbery

Tools and generators stolen from AWPR site

Public to have their say on how offenders are sentenced in Scotland

Calls to end enforced wearing of high heels

Cigarette firms "urging shops to promote products following display ban"

Holyrood in fresh plea to end VAT bills for Police and Fire services

Concerns raised over rise in number of Scottish Kids left home alone

Bright spell ahead for Aberdeen captain Graeme Shinnie

Murder trial begins 19 years after Fraserburgh fire

Drugs worth £250,000 found in Aberdeen

Officers looking for Nusrat Jahan widen search area

More Scots want stronger action on climate change

Blackford: Referendum delay allows SNP to discuss independence 'fundamentals'

Craig Ferguson confirms role in new series of Still Game

Two divers die off the coast of an Outer Hebrides island

Fall in number of special constables "a huge concern"

Holyrood calls for UK legal protection of Scotch whisky after Brexit

Universal Credit roll-out should be halted, says Labour

Concerns raised over fall in number of fire enforcement and audit officers

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Searches continue for Aberdeen woman Nusrat Jahan

Houses in Edinburgh named most expensive per square metre

Labour calls for overhaul of school leaver data criteria

Houses in Edinburgh and Aberdeen most expensive in country

MSPs back calls for urgent broadband improvements

Terminally ill baby Charlie Gard dies in a hospice