Nicola Sturgeon has today rejected claims she is "doing Scotland down" and undermining the wider national interest by raising concerns over the Brexit process.

There will be a limited number of trains operating today and many minor roads will stay closed, but airports hope to operate most flights.

Richard Leonard is taking off his coat and talking about his previous night’s trip to see Paul Weller at the Glasgow Hydro, a few hundred metres from where we have met.

Great Britain’s Eilidh Doyle claimed an impressive bronze medal in the women’s 400m at the World Indoor Championships.

Sir Roger Bannister, the first athlete to run a sub-four minute mile, has died aged 88 in Oxford, his family have said.

Grant Gilchrist is a difficult man to miss especially since he recaptured the superlative form that caught the eye of Toulon not so long ago. In the absence of big Richie Gray, he has jumped ahead of Ben Toolis in the ladder of Scottish locks and, if you listen to the man in the know, it was thanks to a combination of being overlooked for last summer’s tour and the impact made by Edinburgh’s new gaffer, Richard Cockerill.