Walter Smith plans to be soaking up the sun on distant shores by 2016 but he believes Scotland would be worthy hosts of the European Championships in nine years’ time.

JOHNSTON Press, the largest regional newspaper publisher in Ireland, has bought The Scotsman newspaper group in a €235 million (£160m) deal.

CORK-BORN businessman Pearse Flynn has moved back into the telecoms business, acquiring a call centre company in Scotland.

Two Kenyan truck drivers taken hostage by a gang of Saddam Hussein’s brutal militiamen were freed by British soldiers, it emerged today.

The population of Iraq’s second city was tonight attempting to throw off the shackles of Saddam Hussein’s regime, according to reports.