After a relentlessly wet start to the year the UK has recorded its warmest day of the year as many places bask in the late winter sunshine.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the system had become a "debt trap" for graduates.

Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth is to make a statement at Holyrood on protecting children from harm.

Thomas Morgan's "rage-filled attack" left the five-month-old boy with catastrophic injuries.

In September MI5 conceded it had breached Vincent Kearney's source protection and privacy rights by accessing his communications data.

Thousands of supporters are expected to travel to the US for Scotland's first appearance in the tournament since 1998.