Supermarket giant Tesco tightened its grip on Dobbies Garden Centres in the UK today by revealing it now owned just over 28% of its takeover target.

Timmy Murphy and Peter Monteith have yet to decide whether to appeal against their punishments handed out by the Perth stewards over the running and riding of Go Commercial.

A man was arrested after causing a scene on the set of the new Tom Hanks thriller The Da Vinci Code, police said today.

Teenager Luke Mitchell was found guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh today of murdering his girlfriend Jodi Jones.

A 15-YEAR-OLD boy and his mother were arrested and charged in connection with the murder of 14-year-old Jodi Jones in Scotland yesterday.

THE killer of schoolgirl Jodi Jones may well have known her and was likely to live locally, an expert said yesterday.

The Scottish firm involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep was tonight ‘‘fairly confident’’ it would avoid a cash crisis because of a lack of investment.

Four people have been fined after being found guilty of destroying crops at a GM test site near Edinburgh.