The verdict has been used in criminal trials for hundreds of years but campaigners had called for it to be abolished.

A FORMER Scottish professional footballer caught carrying out a £400,000 laundering handover was jailed on Friday. James Keatings, 33, transported heavy boxes of crime cash in a white Transit van ...

Steven Lyons, Ross McGill, Stephen Jamieson and Steven Larwood were taken into custody following a co-ordinated operation.

Scottish international crime writing festival Bloody Scotland has announced this year’s winners of the McIlvanney Prize and ...

A former senior police officer has warned of a violent new power struggle following the arrest in Dubai of crime bosses Ross ...

Two men have been charged in connection with an alleged hate crime following a protest outside accommodation for asylum ...

The Scottish parliament business minister wrote to the first minister offering his resignation and admitting to using "choice ...

A man is alleged to have assaulted a high school student and is said to have made “threatening comments” against Muslims.

A recent study named the cities in the country that are the safest to stay in or travel to - and this one took the number one ...

To celebrate its release, Mina joined The Next Chapter to discuss the books that shaped her as an author. Following her ...

Filming is now underway on the third series of popular BBC drama Granite Harbour. The new three-part series will shoot in Aberdeen, Glasgow and locations across Scotland over the coming months. Made ...