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Man held over power drill attack
A 19-year-old man is arrested after a serious assault in North Lanarkshire in which a man was attacked with a power drill.

Fringe defends ticket sales total
Edinburgh Fringe officials defend their decision to count customers of free shows in their box office returns.

Travel warning before Pope visit
Traffic management plans are being finalised across Scotland for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI.

Man died after 'violent attack'
A 35-year-old man who was found dead in a flat in Glasgow's east end suffered a violent attack, police say.

Report finds engineering optimism
Engineering manufacturing in Scotland is showing its best performance since 2006, according to the latest figures.

Motorcyclist dies following crash
A man dies after his motorcycle comes off the road, near Lugton, in East Ayrshire.

Man jailed for Ł150,000 drug haul
A man caught with herbal cannabis with a possible street value of about Ł150,000 is jailed for three years.

Trio sentenced over prison riot
Three prisoners are jailed for rioting at Addiewell Prison near Livingston, just eight weeks after it opened.

New homes sought for escaped pet snakes
Homes for several stray snakes that have been found slithering around the capital are being sought by animal officers.

Fox rules out French 'ship share'
Defence Secretary Liam Fox rules out the UK sharing aircraft carriers with France as part of closer defence co-operation.

Council chief gets Edinburgh post
Aberdeen City Council's chief executive Sue Bruce is offered the same role at City of Edinburgh Council.

Remote island's "super-sized" mice studied
Researchers begin a study of the "super-sized" mice found on a tiny Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides.

Dogs get leading role for special film screening
Dogs land a leading role at a special cinema screening at the UK's most northerly film festival.

RBS move to boost Scottish jobs
Royal Bank of Scotland says Scotland is likely to gain jobs as a result of major restructuring, despite news that 3,500 UK posts will be lost.

Return to Leuchars after 67 years
Veteran Flying Officer returns to RAF Leuchars seven decades after leaving the Fife base.

New Edinburgh flight to Finland
Edinburgh Airport announces a new route to the Finnish Capital Helsinki.

Men sought over Ł350,000 gem raid
A pensioner is dragged from his car and robbed of jewellery worth more than Ł350,000 in Glasgow.

Rangers' plan to stop riot re-run
Rangers fans will go into a "holding zone" ahead of their team's Champions League match in Manchester, to prevent a re-run of the 2008 riots.

Your pictures from across Scotland
Photographs from around Scotland sent in by readers

Man in court over fatal collision
A French tourist appears in court charged with causing the deaths of two biking enthusiasts in a crash in the Highlands on Sunday.

Lorry driver in cancer test call
A man diagnosed with early stage bowel cancer after using a screening kit says he hopes others follow his example.

Consultation on north power lines
A power company is seeking public views on the future running of thousands of miles of electricity lines.

Biker badly injured in accident
A motorcyclist is seriously injured in a road accident in Aberdeen.

Union members to discuss pay deal
Unison Scotland members will discuss how to respond to a move by councils to impose a pay deal on 150,000 workers.

Firm wins distillery revamp work
A design company in Aberdeenshire has won a key role in the revamp of a Highland distillery's visitor centre.

Youth reported over school fire
A teenager is reported to the procurator fiscal over a fire at a former primary school in Dumfries.

New school works about to begin
Preparatory work is set to get under way on a new school planned for a village in the Scottish Borders.

Council house repair costs rise
Funding is sought to address serious structural defects in some of the first council houses built in Scotland.

Two-pupil school 'should close'
A school that costs Ł108,000 a year to run and has only two pupils should be closed, officials recommend.

Drunk driver caught at police HQ
A drunk driver was caught after taking a wrong turn and ending up in a police headquarters car park, a court hears.

Facebook page for historic genius
A polymath who influenced the worlds of maths, science and the arts has been signed up to Facebook 60 years after his death.

Electoral reform ideas considered
Ministers say changes to council elections could help prevent a repeat of voting problems that marred the 2007 election.

One in nine schools 'half empty'
Figures obtained by the BBC suggest that in one in nine Scottish primary schools at least 60% of places are unfilled.

Council bosses pay-off tops Ł13m
Scotland's largest local authority is to spend Ł13m laying off more than a third of its most senior managers, BBC Scotland learns.

Ministers propose 45p drink price
The Scottish government says drinkers should be charged a minimum of 45p for every unit of alcohol as part of efforts to cut consumption.

Four power firms face sales probe
Four of the "big six" UK energy suppliers are to be investigated amid concerns of mis-selling to customers, the regulator says.

Musician in deal with audio firm
A former rock musician joins forces with Fife-based Clear Audio Systems to provide specialist audio systems for deaf people.

McCulloch and Naismith in for Scots
Lee McCulloch and Steven Naismith are among six Rangers players in the Scotland team to face Lithuania on Friday.

Friday's Scottish gossip
Nigerian defender Danny Shittu linked with Celtic after leaving Bolton...

Murray ready for Jamaica's Brown
Britain's Andy Murray takes on Dustin Brown of Jamaica in the second round of the US Open, with the threat of Hurricane Earl hanging over New York.

Fringe box office breaks records
The Edinburgh Fringe breaks last year's box office record by selling almost two million tickets, organisers reveal.

Chickens win 'Comedy God' award
Little-known Japanese performance art troupe Frank Chickens have won an online poll to find an all-time Comedy God.

In pictures: Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards
The Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards were given out on Saturday.

Mighty mouse study on St Kilda
Researchers begin a three-year study to uncover the secrets of St Kilda's super-sized field mice.

On board the UK's newest attack sub
Commander Andy Coles shows BBC News around the control room of the Royal Navy's new attack submarine and talks about life on board.

Expert predicts school closures
A leading authority on local government predicts widespread school closures as councils try to cope with expected unprecedented cuts in public spending. Figures obtained by the BBC indicate one in nine primary schools is more than half empty.

Scheme to give free films to children
Oscar winning actress Tilda Swinton and film-maker Mark Cousins launch a project to give free films to eight-and-a-half-year-old children.

Scottish Army medics honoured
A unit of medics who volunteered for service in Afghanistan has been presented with campaign medals by the Countess of Wessex.

Your pictures
A selection of photographs from across Scotland sent in by readers.

Heading north
Paolo Nutini to play 'smallest fest in west'

Closing chapter
Photographs from the final days of the Edinburgh Book Festival

Compost concern
Gardeners warned about Legionnaire's disease risk

Class of its own
Inside the Royal Navy's newest, most powerful attack submarine

Andy Murray column
'The heat has been brutal but the result was good'

Newspaper round-up
Stories making the headlines in Scotland

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