A group of children's charities says six of Scotland's health boards aren't meeting waiting times for children and adolescent mental health services.

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The 18-week target was set in December last year. The Scottish Children's Services Coalition says NHS Forth Valley, NHS Lothian, and NHS Tayside aren't even meeting a 26-week deadline for treatment from two years ago.

Jamie Hepburn, minister for Mental Health, said waiting times had come down significantly. He said a recently announced £100m fund would ensure that improvement continues.

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The company behind a bid to extract gold from a Scottish mine has revealed its latest estimates for the amount of the precious metal on the site.

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Scotgold Resources said the total ore reserve at Cononish in Tyndrum was now 198,000 ounces of gold and 851,000 ounces of silver.

The report also estimated that the life of the mine would be eight years.

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A mainly dry afternoon with bright or sunny spells for the Central Lowlands, the south and eastern Scotland. Bright with showers over the Northern Isles, with the odd sharp one in the mix.

Cloudier skies over the Northwest, West Highlands and northern parts of Argyll, here we will see a few light showers with some edging into northern Aberdeenshire.

Temperatures will reach 17 Celsius for parts of the east, the Borders, Fife and Perthshire, 13 to 14 further west, a cooler 11 degrees over the Northern Isles.

A murder trial has been hearing that a mobile phone believed to belong to the accused was used in or around the Asda car park where the killing took place shortly before and after the murder.

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The same phone was also located in Coatbridge shortly afterwards, close to where the gun used in the shooting was found.

William Paterson denies the murder of Kevin Carroll in an Asda car park in Glasgow in 2010.

The trial continues.

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Dundee have confirmed that Kyle Letheren will be released when the goalkeeper's contract ends at the end of this month.

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The 27-year-old Welshman joined Dundee after leaving Scottish Premiership rivals Kilmarnock in 2013.

Letheren, previously with Barnsley, Doncaster Rovers and Plymouth Argyle, helped Dundee win the Championship title last season,

But he lost his place to Scott Bain for the second half of this campaign.

A man who kept mice, rats and rabbits in appalling conditions to feed to his pet snakes has been jailed for 150 days and banned from keeping animals.

Steven Riddell, 43, was found with 130 small animals stored in cages in a greenhouse at his home in Erskine, Renfrewshire, in April last year.

Many were dead, dying, dehydrated, starving and stuck in their own faeces.

Planning permission is to be sought for a whisky distillery on the tiny island of Raasay off the Isle of Skye.

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It would be one of Raasay's largest employers if it opens as planned in January 2017 with 11 jobs on an island with a population of 120 people.

R&B Distillers has proposed turning Borodale House, a derelict Victorian hotel, into a distillery and visitor centre. The first batch of whisky could be produced by 2020.

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Police are investigating an incident of sectarian graffiti sprayed on a church in West Lothian over the weekend.

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The priest at St Andrew's RC Church in Livingston said anti-Catholic messages have been painted all over the listed building.

The vandalism happened between 19:00 on Saturday and 09:00 on Sunday.

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Former News of the World news editor James Weatherup tells the Andy Coulson perjury trial that to suggest he made up claims that phone hacking was "systematic" at the paper are a "gross slur" on his character.

• Mr Weatherup confirms he has had unfair dismissal claim in against News International for four years.

• He says his claim is that phone hacking was "part and parcel" of life at NOTW, and that he shouldn't have been sacked for it.

• Defence QC Murdo MacLeod asks Mr Weatherup if he is trying to "underplay" his role on the newsdesk. "Not at all," he responds.

• Cross examination is at an end, and the advocate depute rises to re-examine Mr Weatherup.

• Mr Weatherup confirms that he would have mentioned Mr Mulcaire "by name" during the meeting with Mr Coulson over his budget.

• In a statement given to the sheriff in Glasgow, Mr Weatherup said "he (Mr Coulson) would have known who Glenn Mulcaire was exactly".

• Mr Weatherup says suggestion he has made up claims is a "gross slur on my character". "I have not come here to lie."

• Mr Weatherup was last prosecution witness; court is to be adjourned while a joint minute of evidence is agreed, jury told.

Scotland's main Accident and Emergency departments are still struggling to treat patients within the Scottish government's target time of four hours.

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The latest weekly statistics suggest 92% of people were seen and discharged within that time, compared to a target of 95%.

Over two hundred people spent more than eight hours waiting to be treated in the week ending 17 May.

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Pauline Mclean sits in for John. On today's show we're talking education - Are teachers being made scapegoats for problems with the Scottish education system?

We're also talking about future books. Margaret Atwood has become first of 100 authors to provide book which you can't read till 2114! Which authors do you think are worth a 99 year wait?

Text us on 80295 with your views to get involved.

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Witness, former News of the World journalist James Weatherup, says he is "100%" certain that he discussed private investigator Glenn Mulcaire with former editor Andy Coulson while they both worked at the newspaper.

• Mr Weatherup says he made a hand gesture holding up an imaginary phone during conferences to signify story had come from hacking.

• He tells the court that Mr Coulson was once told during a conference that a story had come from "the dark arts, boss".

• Mr Weatherup says Mr Coulson told the executive who mentioned "dark arts" not to use that kind of language any more.

• Prosecution has no further questions for Mr Weatherup. Murdo MacLeod QC rises to cross-examine.

• Mr MacLeod tells Mr Weatherup that the amount paid to Nine Consultancy was 3% of the news desk budget.

• Mr Weatherup explains: "Glenn Mulcaire was Nine Consultancy. He was on the payroll as Nine Consultancy."

• Says he concedes that Mr Mulcaire's name was not on the payroll, but repeats: "Nine Consultancy was Glenn Mulcaire."

• Mr MacLeod suggests that no conversation took place between Mr Weatherup and Mr Coulson about Mulcaire. Mr Weatherup replies: "That's not correct".

• Mr Weatherup says he is "100%" certain that the conversation took place.

• Mr MacLeod presses Mr Weatherup on the issue of the hand gesture, which he used to indicate phone hacking. He says he is 100% certain about this too.

• Mr MacLeod says to the witness: "Can I suggest that this is nonsense? Are you making this up?" Mr Weatherup responds: "I have no reason to lie. I feel sorry for Andy, I feel sorry for his children."

Inspectors have said major weaknesses identified in child care services in Dumfries and Galloway have been tackled "quickly and constructively".

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It comes just over a year after concerns were raised over the safety of vulnerable children and young people.

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Businessman Brendan Burns, who operates a forestry company and is a past UK policy chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, told the Kaye Adams programme that government needs to address more than just the implementation of the living wage, a key point in the new Scottish Business Pledge.

He said: "I pay more than the living wage, but that is not the point.

"To be able to pay the living wage, you have to get more efficiency into Scottish businesses.

"At this moment, that is what we don't have. Every businessman I meet will always say 'I would like to pay the living wage', but you can't pay out of a business if the profit isn't there.

"The profit is there when the business is more efficient."

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Philip Sim, Reporting from the High Court in Edinburgh

Witness James Weatherup tells the Andy Coulson perjury trial that phone hacking was "systematic" at the News of the World.

• Mr Weatherup says he questioned private investigator Glenn Mulcaire's employment several times, with Stuart Kuttner and other senior figures.

• He says he was told to take the issue up with editor. He says he told Mr Coulson, who referred him back to Mr Kuttner.

• Mr Weatherup says he met with Mr Coulson in his office and told him "we didn't need Glenn Mulcaire on the payroll."

• Advocate depute asks the witness if Mr Coulson asked "who's that? What does he do?" (about Mulcaire). Mr Weatherup answers: "No."

• Mr Weatherup says there seemed to be "no appetite" within senior management for getting rid of Mr Mulcaire.

• He tells the court that all this occurred within days of his arrival at the paper in 2004. He said he "soon found out" that Mulcaire was "a phone hacker".

• Mr Weatherup says he used the services of Mr Mulcaire "137 times", although less than the majority of times as a phone hacker.

• He tells the court that "hacking phones was systematic at the News of the World. Andy would have known that Mulcaire was hacking phones".

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Business owners in Scotland react to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's call for businesses to commit to paying the living wage and promoting fair practices.

If companies want to sign up for the government's Scottish Business Pledge, they must agree to pay the living wage to all direct employees over 18.

Joseph Byrne, who runs a building firm which employs 15 people, told the programme that the pledge was a great idea and he would be signing his business up for it.

He added: "The living wage is an aspirational thing. If you pay people a fare wage, you get a happy employee, you get productivity, and you get that person spending and business profits from that."

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Former News of the World journalist James Weatherup has begun his evidence at the Andy Coulson trial. He tells the court he joined the paper in 1987 and left in 1999 before rejoining the paper in 2004.

• As news editor, Mr Weatherup reported to the editor, Andy Coulson. He points him out in the dock.

• In July 2013 Mr Weatherup pleaded guilty to a charge of phone hacking, he confirms. He was given a suspended sentence a year later.

• Mr Weatherup confirms that he pled guilty to conspiring to hack phones with Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire.

• He says he met Mr Mulcaire once outside the office in Wapping, and also spoke to him on the phone and by email.

• Mr Weatherup says he first came across Mr Mulcaire's name on a budget sheet, after Stuart Kuttner had asked him to cut the budget.

• He says he "didn't see the point" of having a private investigator paid full time. He tells the court: "He was paid more than the reporters. It was a huge sum."

Andy Coulson is accused of lying under oath in the 2010 perjury trial of former MSP Tommy Sheridan. He denies the charge.

Lovers and haters of midges have been asked to help with this year's Scottish Midge Forecast.

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More than 100 volunteers are needed to hang up sticky traps to catch midges and later send the traps away for analysis for the project running between June and August.

The forecast's Dr Alison Blackwell said she hoped it would be possible monitor a wide range of habitats across the country.