News from Scotland

A minimum price for alcohol of 45p a unit would save Scotland more than £700 million in 10 years, Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon has said.

The Scottish Government has said it wants the minimum price for a unit of alcohol to be set at 45p.

A woman who was stranded overnight after falling 50ft down a cliff has been airlifted to hospital.

SLEAT Community Trust  (SCT) on the Isle of Skye is hoping local people will help them raise the money needed to buy a valuable woodland for community enterprises.

OBAN laid on a spectacle of a Highland games at this year’s Argyllshire Gathering, with local talent excelling in athletics, dancing, piping and traditional music.

AROUND 90 youngsters aged between seven and 16 years took part in the annual Lochaber Street League (LSL) football tournament at Claggan Park on Saturday.

OBAN Bay’s ambitious pontoon project is dead in the water amid a sea of resentment and allegations.

OBAN High School Pipe Band returned home to a rain soaked but rapturous welcome as the Champion of Champions 2010, late last Saturday night.

BRITISH service personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan were remembered at a ceremomy of remembrance in Fort William last Wednesday morning.

A CHURCH of Scotland minister was found safe on a Lochaber hillside known as The Devil’s Ridge – 20 hours after he was due to return home.

THE MOST vulnerable residents in Argyll and Bute are to be put at risk of homelessness when their housing benefit is cut next year, according to Shelter Scotland.

AN 18-YEAR-old law student has become the first woman to win a gold medal for solo piping at the Argyllshire Gathering.  

The Tories are to hold a meeting of the party's shadow cabinet on the site of the former Ravenscraig steel works.

Twelve Glasgow Rangers hooligans involved in rioting after the Uefa Cup Final in Manchester are due to be sentenced.

Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon is due to announce what she wants the minimum price for alcohol to be.

Around 25 kilos of amphetamines worth more than £200,000 has been seized by police.

The life prospects of youngsters in residential care in Scotland are "generally poor", with many facing unemployment, homelessness and prison, a spending watchdog has

Nine out of ten Scots support changing the law so it is an offence for adults to buy cigarettes for youngsters, a poll has revealed.

A 10-year-old girl is being treated in hospital after she was bitten by a dog in the second attack of its kind this week.

A ferry company is encouraging its staff to learn Gaelic.