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Queensferry Crossing "nearing completion and on schedule to open May next year"

Female binge drinkers unfairly stigmatised by media, study finds

Paul Hartley hopes Dundee improvement continues at Firhill

Tories find over 10% of patients had to be treated outside their health board in the last year

Scottish teachers 'take 500,000 days off for mental health reasons'

Politicians 'losing sight of challenges facing NHS in Scotland

Shoppers queue from 2am for bargains in post-Christmas sales

Driver-less electric cars "could eradicate air pollution in 10 years"

Storm Conor sweeps in with snow and 80mph winds

Woodland Trust announces push to recycle Christmas cards for planting of trees

Ministers face calls for fox-hunting legislation to be strengthened

Economy Secretary attacks failure to give position on single market membership

Energy Efficiency campaigners call for more investment

Rural projects to benefit from £60million of funding

Figures show 8% increase in number of people homeless at Christmas

Hundreds of jobs to be created with 20 new Co-op stores planned

Energy efficiency campaigners call for further investment

Police Scotland losing 'swathes' of experienced officers, Tories warn

Travellers urged to check weather conditions as Storm Conor descends

Proud parents celebrate arrival of Christmas babies

Blairgowerie residents given Christmas Eve bomb squad scare

Cancer Survivors happy to get after-care from non-specialists, study finds

Power restored to 21,000 homes after Storm Barbara battering

Christmas Eve severe weather warnings as Storm Barbara batters Britain

Political leaders unite to praise Christmas workers

Dundee 3 Hearts 2

Fashion firm Ness calls in administrators

Labour warns ministers on university access gap

The Body in the Bins: The murder of Kimberley MacKenzie

Judy Murray delighted to serve up only an excuse? cameo role

388 motorists over drink-drive limit so far in festive campaign

Think of those less fortunate this Christmas, says Nicola Sturgeon

Flybe to suspend Dundee-Amsterdam service in January

Scotland set for Storm Barbara disruption as 90mph winds forecast

Scotland’s most expensive street now in home of golf

Saints defender Richard Foster wary of Killie’s Souleymane Coulibaly