A senior Labour MSP helped her crooked son cash in on a lucrative Holyrood flat he bought months after defrauding his employers of £3.7mn. Deputy presiding officer Trish Godman purchased her son Gary Mulgrew's Edinburgh apartment for £250,000 in late 2006, after he had been extradited to Texas.

The Lockerbie bomber's lawyer has criticised the Scottish government's silence over allegations that foreign secretary David Miliband "interfered" in his client's appeal by demanding to keep secret a document which could potentially clear him of the terrorist outrage.

Plans to create an elite Swat team to deal with terrorist outbreaks and hostage incidents across Scotland have been shot down in flames by rank and file cops.

Police allegedly accused the wife of former Scottish Socialist MSP Tommy Sheridan of "acting like an IRA terrorist" before she was charged with perjury and theft, the Sunday Herald has learned. British Airways hostess Gail Sheridan reserved her right to silence under questioning by Lothian and Borders Police over evidence she gave in her husband's £200,000 libel victory over the News of the World.

A new generation of council houses is in the pipeline after more than a dozen local authorities said they wanted to build their own social housing.