Westminister is a club masquerading as a Parliament says Mhairi Black

The price of cigarettes should rise to more than £20 a packet to deter people from smoking, a new study has suggested.

For the cultists who hang on his every word, it was evidence he took the problem seriously and was going to do something about it.

As a major international conference is taking shape, we consider how a global perspective can find ways to tackle issues around alcohol

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An original member of the Bay City Rollers has died after a fire in his Edinburgh home.

Thirty-one years separate the two finalists in the Scottish Amateur Championship at Blairgowrie, where Jamie Stewart, 18, stands between Euan McIntosh becoming one of the event’s oldest winners at 49.

In recent years it has been standard for SRU chief executive Mark Dodson to speak to the press at the conclusion of the AGM but there was none of that yesterday after what turned into a three-and-a-quarter hour meeting in the Presidents Suite of BT Murrayfield.

Andy Murray’s most promising week since hip surgery ended with him withdrawing ahead of a scheduled quarter-final against Alex de Minaur at the Citi Open in Washington.