Lesley Riddoch: Scotland can follow ‘wee country’ template for success

Carol Smillie is the face of a new campaign encouraging people to perform CPR to the tune of Proclaimers’ hit “I’m Gonna Be (500 miles)”

James Martin has added a Scottish date to his live tour to meet with demand.

A boy has died after falling ill on a street in the Capital.

Nicola Sturgeon has held “constructive” talks with the Chinese vice premier during her official visit to the country.

Only one man has won more than 100 caps for Scotland to date, while there are some surprising entries in the 15 most-capped Scots of all time

Brendan Rodgers believes the Scottish Professional Football League should not shrink away from giving Celtic the chance to clinch the Premiership title against Rangers in the first round of post-split fixtures.

Pedro Caixinha issues warning to Carlos Pena; Lennart Thy plays down Celtic link and Brendan Rodgers keen for Old Firm title decider

ALEX Marshall’s hopes of becoming Scotland’s most successful Commonwealth Games athlete were dashed as he and partner Paul Foster suffered a surprise defeat to Wales in the lawn bowls men’s pairs final.Marshall, 51, was aiming for a fifth gold of his career, which would have taken him beyond Allan Wells and Neil Fachie but had to settle for silver as the Weslh pair of Daniel Salmon and Marc Wyatt scored a dramatic 12-10 victory.The Welsh went into the 18th and final end 11-10 up having coming back from 5-1 down in the fifth, and their triumph was sealed when four-time Commonwealth gold-medallist Marshall failed to nail his last shot after Wyatt brilliantly nailed the jack.Marshall has another chance to win a fifth gold as he goes in the men’s fours this week.Elsewhere overnight at the Gold Coast, there was a bronze for gymnast Frank Baines in the parallel bars.At the athletics, Zoey Clark is safely through to the women’s 400m, while Allan Smith and David Smith both qualified for the men’s high jump final.

Defeat at Tynecastle doesn’t need to derail Aberdeen’s ambitions but, at a crucial stage of the season, the Pittodrie side do need to turn the negative into a positive pretty quickly as they attempt to bounce back in time to reach their targets.