Alesha MacPhail was visiting her grandparents on the Isle of Bute last summer when she was raped and murdered. It is one of the most shocking crimes in Scotland's modern history - a six-year-old girl abducted from her own bed, her body left naked in the woods. On Thursday it was revealed for the first time that the 16-year-old who killed her was already on the radar of police and social services. Aaron Campbell, now 17, had been referred to the Youth Justice Service twice. He was also being monitored, with information shared between different agencies involved in his case, including his school. Alesha’s family is now demanding to know...

Eruption-induced cooling likely exacerbated the “Scottish ills” of the late 1690s

New chip stores data as light which is then scrambled differently every single time information is sent onwards

MSPs will fail the people of Scotland if they do not reduce the dominance of large, traditional sporting estates, according to the Scottish environment minister.

A bill which allows same-sex weddings to take place in Scotland has been passed by MSPs in the Scottish Parliament. MSPs voted by 105 to 18 in favour of the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill.

RAQUEL ROLNIK, who came to Scotland to investigate the bedroom tax, said the benefits claw-back must be suspended immediately because of its tough impact on the poor and disabled.

The leader of Scotland's separatist movement predicted on Friday that the United States would not try to stand in the way of the breakup of Britain, Washington's staunchest ally for decades, if Scots vote for independence at a referendum this year.

A new Scottish cultural landmark has been lit up for the first time, days before the public get a chance to take a closer look at the colossal structures.

A few years before giving up its independence, Scotland took a bold gamble to secure a brighter future, founding a colony on the isthmus of Panama to corner trade.

Scotland’s nationalist first minister, is known to enjoy a flutter on the horses. He must therefore have felt his political racecard had turned hot in 2011 when Colin and Chris Weir, two lifelong members of the Scottish National Party, won a lottery jackpot worth £161m. That win, remarkably, has probably shortened the odds on a Scottish exit from the United Kingdom, after the independence referendum due in September. It has also helped reveal just how deeply the vote is dividing Scotland.

Two men and a woman have been killed in a collision between a vehicle and spectators at the Jim Clark Rally in the Scottish Borders, police have said.

JK Rowling, the multimillionaire author of the Harry Potter novels, has donated £1m to the campaign against Scottish independence after warning that it could be a "historically bad mistake" to leave the UK.

The dead walk again: an arachnid that lived 410 million years ago has crawled back into the virtual world.

The mother of three-year-old Mikaeel Kular has admitted killing her son and hiding his body in a suitcase, sparking a major search operation.

In a little-noticed move, a small number of police officers are now routinely carrying sidearms while on patrol in parts of the mainland UK. How did this come about, and does it alter the relationship between the constabulary and the public?

Gretna Green has been a hotspot for tying the knot since the 18th Century. But why do people still choose to walk down its many aisles?

Once completed, the project is expected to provide enough energy to power 175,000 homes.

The "Yes" camp finally achieve majority support in polls 12 days before the Scottish Independence Referendum.

Owen Jones: The union will likely be gone within a decade. It’s not just the Tories in our bankrupt establishment that are to blame

North Korea is quietly backing the Yes vote in Scotland and would be keen to improve trade with a newly independent Edinburgh, according to officials of the Pyongyang regime. "I consider that independence would be a very positive issue for Scotland," Choe Kwan-il, managing editor of the Choson Sinbo newspaper, told The Telegraph.