Alex Salmond today said he would be standing down as Scotland’s First Minister and Scottish National Party (SNP) leader.

Former miners’ leader Arthur Scargill has been awarded £13,000 in damages in the UK after he sued a trust fund of the union he led for 20 years.

Alex Ferguson’s apology for his attack on referee Alan Wiley has today been criticised as “half-hearted”.

The outsourcing of cytology screening which detects cervical cancer will be debated by medical scientists in Dublin today.