Pictures: Hearts and Hibs open doors to feed 200 on Christmas

Parts of Scotland were treated to a White Christmas, although people may have missed it.

Despite the furious tug of war that precedes their reading, Christmas cracker jokes are more often than not followed by a collective groan. You can wait years to hear a good one.

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has won a £1 million funding lifeline as bosses seek to stave off the threat of closure over growing safety fears from its ageing greenhouses.

Queen of the South are set to have their fans smiling again despite Saturday’s 3-2 defeat by St Mirren as striker Stephen Dobbie wants to get the paperwork on an extended deal completed before 2017 is out.

A Scots golfer has muscled his way into the big league in the ever-expanding long-driving scene and is hoping to use a 10-event World Series in 2018 to turn what he describes as “golf’s answer to 20-20 cricket”
into a full-time career.

It was to Craig Levein’s evident frustration that Hearts were unable to redress their McDiarmid Park hoodoo on Saturday.