A lorry driver has died and more than 130,000 homes have been left without power as gale force winds battered Scotland.

Five people with alleged links to dissident Republicanism have appeared in court charged with terrorism offences and conspiracy to murder.

The festival is back, but the focus is now on dance music, says Ed Power

Torrential rain, thunder and lightning is blighting the first weekend of the school holidays, as thousands set off across the UK for their summer break.

A group of female school employees have won a Supreme Court victory in their equal pay fight against a local authority.

Wreckage from the jumbo jet blown up over Lockerbie has been returned to Scotland almost 25 years after the terrorist atrocity.

CAR boot sales are stepping it out again as the weather stutters into spring, but not every one of them seems worth the car or foot miles. Many sales do disappoint and are consistently overwhelmed by inexplicable dross from the back of someone’s garage, children’s battered toys, bulging boxes of pulp fiction, scratched CDs by the thousands, and cheap new goods. However, regular attendance is key, and for €2-€5 for a wander and a fist full of chips, well worth an hour on a Sunday morning. Sales are by their nature transitory and each one is unique as private sellers doing a clear out and traders on the move come and go week by week.

Mercedes-Benz and three commercial vehicle dealers are to pay fines totalling £2.6m (€2.98m) following an inquiry into market rigging.

A man has been arrested after €3m-worth of cannabis was seized at a ferry port.

The Scottish Liberal Democrat leader has written to the Lord Advocate to seek assurances that the Lockerbie bombing is still being “rigorously and actively investigated”.

Scotland’s top prosecutor has met the interim Libyan Prime Minister to discuss the continuing investigation into the Lockerbie bombing.

Jessie J has defended 'The Voice' against claims it is boring.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed calls for a fresh inquiry into the conviction of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi in the wake of his death.

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the Libyan man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, has died, according to his brother.

Freezing temperatures which have disrupted Scotland’s roads this week are set to continue, forecasters have warned.

A ferry carrying more than 100 people started drifting off the Scottish coast after it suffered engine trouble on its way to Northern Ireland, the coastguard said.

False teeth, a stuffed otter, a telescope and a fully-dressed male mannequin are among the items handed in to Scottish police stations as lost property.

Buildings wobbled and the ground rumbled after an earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale shook neighbouring counties in the UK.

Uncapped Northampton centre Joe Ansbro will replace the injured Max Evans in Scotland’s team to meet South Africa in the second autumn Test at Murrayfield tomorrow.

A 30-YEAR-OLD woman and a 22-year-old man are due in court in Armagh later today charged with child abduction.

A 17-month-old girl who went missing from Banbridge in the North has been found safe and well

Millions of voters were going to the polls today in the most tightly-contested British General Election in a generation.

Voters started to go to the polls today in the most tightly-contested British General Election in a generation.

Almost 200 passengers and crew remained stranded on board a ferry today after a lorry broke free and burst through the ship's rear door.

Police in the North and in Scotland are tonight investigating the discovery of a man’s body on the Scottish coast.

Scotland’s First Minister will meet his Northern Ireland counterparts in Belfast today.

Plans to produce a sequel to 1970s cult movie 'The Wicker Man' have been scrapped due to "financing problems".

HOUSEHOLDERS across Britain were last night counting the cost of the biggest earthquake to hit Britain in nearly 25 years.

Some of the suspects arrested in connection with the terror plots in London and Glasgow were known to MI5 before the attacks took place, it has emerged.

Kerry Katona’s fiancé gave guests the thumbs up today, ahead of a low-key wedding ceremony at a hotel in Gretna Green.

Gretna’s Scottish Cup fairytale ended today as the team from the small border town lost the final to hot favourites Heart of Midlothian following a thrilling penalty shoot-out.

A manuscript of a Robert Burns poem separated more than a century ago has been put back together in time for the Bard’s birthday celebrations today.

Passengers on a ferry forced aground by hurricane-force winds today remained stranded on board their stricken vessel.

IMMIGRATION cheats, some coming from the Republic, are using the North as the base for a money-spinning bogus marriage scam to get EU citizenship, it was claimed last night.

A schoolgirl who died with her grandmother in a New Year fire tragedy in a remote village in Scotland was today named by police.

A teenage girl and her grandmother have died in a house fire and another person is recovering in hospital from smoke inhalation, Scottish police said today.

Frankie Dettori made the most of a rare visit to Pontefract with a treble on Dumfries, Rules For Jokers and Boston Lodge.

A visitor to the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow was left stunned when told a collection of Beatrix Potter artwork he had was worth £250,000 (€361491), a book expert revealed today.

POLICE were last night hunting thieves who stole a Leonardo da Vinci painting from the estate of one of Scotland’s richest landowners.

A father and his 12-year-old son died and another son, aged 14, is missing after a motorboat capsized off the west coast of Scotland.

An Irish teenager has died on holiday in Scotland after a quad bike she was riding on a beach flipped over, police said today.

British champion Jonny Milner leads the Scottish Rally after two of today’s five stages as previous leader Tapio Laukkanen suffered a puncture.

STENA LINE is set to become the biggest player on the Irish Sea, taking over €70m of P&O’s ferry assets on two routes.