Police in Scotland have said they have received reports of historic child abuse within football.

A FORMER Libyan agent jailed for the murder of 270 people in the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing has asked to end his second appeal against his conviction, his lawyer said yesterday.

FIFA’s rulers are set to formally approve a Great Britain football team for the London 2012 Olympics later this week despite opposition from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

English politicians have vowed to repel a cross-border raid to take the twon of Berwick-upon-Tweed back into Scotland.