Police have launched an investigation into the events surrounding Wednesday’s chaotic Old Firm match.

THE US Government told Scottish officials that the Lockerbie bomber’s release on compassionate grounds was “far preferable” to his transfer back to a Libyan jail, it was revealed yesterday.

British MPs are to study the handling of the case of the Lockerbie bomber as part of a wider probe into relations between Westminster and Holyrood, it was announced today.

The joint leaders of the North’s power-sharing Executive will hold talks with the Scottish government in Edinburgh today.

The North's First Minister the Rev Ian Paisley is odds-on to stand down from office this year, a bookmaker claimed today.

The leaders of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government are to visit Edinburgh next week for a round of events involving Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond.

The fight against drugs will be one of the key issues on the agenda as political leaders from the Irish and British governments as well as other devolved administrations meet in Dublin today.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to chair a meeting of the Government’s Cobra emergency contingencies committee in Whitehall in response to the incident at Glasgow Airport.