United Kingdom Pro-independence parties secure majority in Scottish parliament As pro-independence parties retain a majority in the Scottish Parliament, Nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon confirms bid for second attempt to leave United Kingdom 08/05/2021
United Kingdom Scotland: SNP seeks mandate for fresh independence referendum But opinion polls suggest the party may not achieve an outright majority and could seek a pro-independence coalition. 04/05/2021
United Kingdom Scotland’s First Minister ‘misled’ parliament over Salmond allegations A committee has found Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon “misled” the nation’s parliament over sexual assault allegations against her predecessor Alex Salmond. 19/03/2021
United Kingdom Meet the Congolese ex-asylum seeker soon to lead a Scottish university Human rights lawyer Debora Kayembe will become rector of the University of Edinburgh in March. 14/02/2021
United Kingdom Scottish police probe 'linked' deaths of two women and a man Two women died after being found injured, one from stab wounds, while a man was also killed in a fatal road accident nearby. Police are linking the incidents. 05/02/2021
Europe Scottish and English drinkers most frequently drunk, study suggests The findings were part of the Global Drug Survey 2020, which included data from 110,000 people from 25 countries. 25/01/2021
United Kingdom US charges Libyan man over Lockerbie bombing 32 years on The Justice Department revealed charges accusing a Libyan bomb expert in the 1988 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, an attack that killed 259 people in the air and an additional 11 on the ground. 21/12/2020
Good Morning Europe Lockerbie: Appeal to clear man convicted for 1988 bombing underway Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Basset al-Megrahi was jailed for life in 2001 for the 1988 murder of the 270 passengers and crew of Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockervie. He died in 2012. 24/11/2020
United Kingdom Scottish actor Sir Sean Connery, who played James Bond, dies aged 90 Sean Connery was often cited as the world's favourite James Bond, having played him in several films from the 1960s to the 1980s. 31/10/2020
