More than 50 UK firms trading with Burma stand accused of propping up the nation's ruthless military junta.

Mothers living in deprived areas of Scotland are raising their children on poor-quality diets despite knowing the benefits of healthy eating.

Advisers tell Brown: go for an early election.

Police investigating last year's Tommy Sheridan defamation case are examining claims that the politician's sister voted against an SSP motion that called on witnesses not to commit perjury.

The Scottish government's £1.6 billion plan for a new road bridge across the Firth of Forth will bring traffic "gridlock" to Edinburgh, triggering an economic and environmental disaster.

The head of the Scottish government's green watchdog is under fire for taking climate-wrecking flights last week.

The SNP has been warned its plans to abolish sportscotland, the country's national sports agency, could undermine support for sport in the crucial build-up to the London Olympics in 2012 and a potential Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014.

Scotland's gay and lesbian communities are not being given the same protection from hate crimes as those in England.

Former First Minister Jack McConnell has angered his Labour colleagues after missing a key Holyrood vote to attend a leaders' summit in New York.

Many Scots are scepticalofhealth messages on preventing cancer and think governments use them to hide the real causes of the disease.

The Scottish government has ruled out a last-minute intervention to stop the expansion of Europe's largest quarry, Glensanda.

Scotland's aim to eradicate homelessness by 2012 will be under threat without significant new investment, charities and housing associations are warning.