Two children have been found dead in a car parked at a beauty spot to the north of Glasgow. A man was taken from the scene to a hospital in the city.

Scottish TV audiences are poorly informed and have a skewed perspective on events in their own country because of a failure by the national BBC news programmes to provide coverage of events outside England.

All Scottish Parliament staff will have to undergo "dignity at work" training after figures revealed a rise in bullying. More than 12 per cent of Holyrood employees have complained of bullying or harassment, according to a new equalities report.

Government ministers  and Labour backbenchers have already begun private discussions about a potential challenge to Gordon Brown's leadership of the Labour Party, according to the Manchester MP Graham Stringer.

The publicity drive to mark the first anniversary of Madeleine McCann's disappearance has created an upsurge of interest in the website launched to help find her.