Kevin Keane
BBC Scotland reporter

Historic Scotland aware Broadford Works owner has been looking at security options with council and would be happy to be part of discussions.

DundeePolice, external tweets: Westbound carriageway A90 Dundee - Perth road at Kinfauns. Expect delays due to serious road traffic collison.

David Miller
BBC Scotland environment correspondent

League Against Cruel Sports claims Scottish fox hunts are flouting the ban on hunting with dogs following covert surveillance operation.

Fox hunting claims relate to "flushing with dogs" exemption. No guns present, say campaigners. Allegations rejected by hunts themselves.

Philip Sim, Reporting from the High Court in Edinburgh

Following the evidence from former News of the World news editor James Weatherup, the Andy Coulson perjury trial heard a joint minute of evidence agreed between the prosecution and the defence. That concluded the Crown case.

• Joint minute: A police investigation did not identify any officer who had sold a "green book" royal directory to Clive Goodman.

• Joint minute agrees that various emails, voicemail transcripts and productions used in the trial are "true and accurate" copies.

Lord Burns asked the jury to return on Friday, after a legal matter is dealt with.

BBC Radio Scotland

Mhairi Stuart presents breaking news and sport from Scotland, the UK and around the world, plus regular travel and weather updates.

Coming up on the programme;

• The complaints mount up against the former Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael, who admitted leaking a memo claiming Nicola Sturgeon preferred David Cameron in Downing Street.

• Figures seen by BBC News show that more than half a million pre-payment gas and electricity meters have been forcibly installed in people's homes, under court warrant, over the past six years.

• Distilleries across Scotland have reported a record high number of visitors in the last year.

Listen live.

Eleanor Bradford
BBC Scotland Health Correspondent

There are claims that Scotland's newest super-hospital is in chaos, after its opening just a few weeks ago.

One woman told the BBC the hospital was like "a war zone" over the bank holiday weekend.

Image source, NHS GGC

Her terminally ill husband had to wait eight hours to be admitted.

One patient told the BBC that the queue at the reception desk of the immediate care ward was six-deep on Friday.

This ward was designed to be a faster route for patients sent by their GP, but it was apparently crowded with patients who faced waits of 8 hours for admission.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has apologised, and Scotland's health minister Shona Robison said, as of yesterday, the hospital was performing very well.

More than 600 people have pledged over £10,000 to fund a legal bid to overturn Alistair Carmichael's victory for the Liberal Democrats in Orkney and Shetland at the general election.

The online fundraising campaign, external aims to raise £60,000 for an election petition in the courts after it emerged the MP was behind a leak which claimed Nicola Sturgeon wanted to see David Cameron remain in Downing Street.

It has also emerged that a member of the public has complained to the police about the conduct of the former Scottish Secretary

The BBC understands the complaint was made in person at a police station in Wishaw, Lanarkshire - not in Mr Carmichael's constituency in Orkney and Shetland, where protests were held over the weekend.

A college has been evacuated and closed for the rest of the day due to a gas leak.

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to South Lanarkshire College in East Kilbride at about 09:30.

Image source, Google

About 1,300 students and staff were inside the building at the time and were moved to a safe area.

Roads around the site have been closed and local residents warned to remain indoors. All classes have been cancelled.

Willie Johnston
BBC Scotland

A recently discovered mass grave of Royal Scots dating from 1940 suggests they were murdered in cold blood after surrendering.

Willie Dickson - the son of veteran, Colonel Seaton Dickson - who survived the Le Paradis battle in northern France - says he has found circumstantial evidence that around 21 Royal Scots were murdered in a field.

The battle played a key role in history and helped save thousands of lives by stalling the Germans' advance on Allied troops trying to escape in the great Dunkirk evacuation.

See the full interview on Reporting Scotland or catch up online.

The Electoral Commission says it has received a complaint about the conduct of the Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael.

Image source, Getty Images

It follows confirmation from the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards about a number of complaints to her office following his admission last week about the leak of a memo regarding the first minister.

The Electoral Commission however says it does not investigate such matters and has referred the complaint to the Standards commissioner.

BBC Scotland News

Holyrood's 'equity and excellence in education" debate is under way.

It comes after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Monday that Scottish education was "not good enough" after studies showed falls in literacy and numeracy skills in Scotland's schools.

Follow the twists and turns of the debate here.

Emma Jones
Entertainment reporter, BBC News

"The Scottish play" - as William Shakespeare's Macbeth is known among actors - has become "the Scottish film" starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard as the infamous couple who murder their way to the throne of Scotland.

Image source, AP

But the movie, directed by Australian Justin Kurzel and which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this weekend, has a new interpretation of Shakespeare's tragic hero and why he sets out on his doomed path to power.

Read the full story here.

BBC Sport
Scotland

Sammy Clingan's two-and-a-half year spell at Kilmarnock has ended after he was named among five experienced first-team players being released.

Image source, SNS Group Craig Foy

The Northern Ireland cap is joined by fellow midfielder Paul Cairney, defender Chris Chantler, plus strikers Lee Miller and Nathan Eccleston.

Skipper Manuel Pascali and midfielder Alexei Eremenko are also likely exits.

Both have been offered one-year contracts, but they have indicated that the offers are not acceptable.

BBC Radio Scotland

Today: as exhibition Lee Miller and Picasso opens @NatGalleriesSco, her son Anthony Penrose talks about discovering her work.

Also today, @Birds0fParadise theatre's new play Crazy Jane, a beautiful new children's book about JM Barrie, and @ianhoey on Bob Dylan's art.

A date has been set for two Aberdeen City Council by-elections following the election of two councillors as MPs.

Voters in Kincorth, Nigg and Cove will go to the polls on 30 July to elect a replacement for Callum McCaig, who is now the SNP MP for Aberdeen South.

The other will be held in the Hilton, Woodside and Stockethill ward to replace Kirsty Blackman, the new SNP MP for Aberdeen North, on the same day.

BBC Democracy Live

Coming up at Holyrood.

Topical Questions selected for answer on 26 May 2015

1. Richard Simpson: To ask the Scottish government what action it has taken to ensure that the concerns of 56 doctors at the Beatson Cancer Centre regarding patient safety are fully addressed. (S4T-01028)

2. Mike MacKenzie: To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with the UK Government on the subject of HS2. (S4T-01033)

3. Alison McInnes: To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that Police Scotland has been using facial recognition technology on images stored on the police national database. (S4T-01034)

Follow the debate here.

The Scottish Government has rejected a call to increase the speed limit for lorries on the A96 trunk road, between Inverness and Aberdeen.

Most of the route is single carriageway, and lorries have to stick to a speed limit of 40mph

There have been calls for this to be increased to 50mph to prevent lengthy tailbacks, but the Scottish Government says there isn't "sufficient evidence" to support the plan.

Two people have been arrested following a hit-and-run incident which left one man hurt and a woman seriously injured in Paisley, Renfrewshire.

The 23-year-old man and 35-year-old woman were hit by a Mini car after a disturbance in the town's Blackstoun Oval at about 22:55 on 11 May.

Police Scotland said a man, 30, and woman, 26, had been arrested in connection with the incident.

Both were due to appear from custody at Paisley Sheriff Court.

Watch Reporting Scotland live on BBC One and online now.

A jogger who was knocked down by a cyclist on a Livingston footpath has died.

Peter Craig, 49, sustained a head injury following the incident at about 09:00 on Saturday on the Loan Footpath, at its junction with Fergus Avenue.

He was taken to the Western General but later died.

Police Scotland are trying to trace the cyclist, who did not swap details with the jogger at the time.