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The result of legal action challenging the election of Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael is due on Wednesday.

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Four constituents raised the action against the Lib Dem MP under the Representation of the People Act 1983.

They claimed Mr Carmichael misled voters over a memo which was leaked before May's general election.

The contents of the memo, published in the Daily Telegraph at the start of the election campaign in April, claimed that SNP leader and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, would secretly prefer Tory leader David Cameron as prime minister rather than his Labour opponent Ed Miliband.  

The earliest gun flints discovered in Britain were among finds made during 15 years of archaeological excavations on a small Hebridean island.

The flints were manufactured on Dùn Èistean, an island stronghold of Clan Morrison at Ness on the northern tip of Lewis in the Western Isles.

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Archaeologists said the flints were evidence of skirmishes with flintlock weapons in later medieval times.

Dùn Èistean was a clan stronghold in the 1500s and 1600s.

The flints, which were examined by Stirlingshire-based lithic researcher Torben Bjarke Ballin, have been dated to the 16th and early 17th centuries.

Gun flints found previously were from the mid to late 17th Century.

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This evening a band showers push east across the country and clear into the North Sea.

It then turns dry for most, with the exception of a few isolated showers.

A touch of frost will form for a time, under the clear skies, with a few rural locations sub-zero.

By the early hours, cloud will increase followed by rain for the west. So after an early dip in temperatures to around 2 or 3C, it's milder again by dawn. 

Work has begun on selecting material to be held at a £20m nuclear industry archive in Wick in Caithness.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) facility being constructed at a former RAF site will hold records from UK civil nuclear complexes.

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They include Dounreay in Caithness, Sellafield in Cumbria, Harwell in Oxfordshire and Winfrith in Dorset. Records and other documents in hundreds of thousands of boxes at each of the sites were being sorted, the NDA said.

More than 70 years' worth of information and up to 30 million digital records would be stored at the archive in Wick. Construction of the building should be completed next year.

Controversial proposals to abolish the requirement for corroboration in criminal cases have been dropped by the Scottish government.

This followed a review which recommended the need for two sources of evidence in criminal cases should be retained in certain circumstances.

Justice Secretary Michael Matheson confirmed the measure would not be included in the Criminal Justice Bill in April.

He said the government needed more time to consider the findings.

The plans to end corroboration were brought forward by Mr Matheson's predecessor Kenny MacAskill, who had said the "outdated rule" meant many victims were denied justice.

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St Mirren striker Steven Thompson has backed the League Cup changes, but wants Scottish football chiefs to go further and restructure the whole league.

From next season the League Cup will include a group stage, with games starting as early as 16 July.

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"I like the idea of starting the season earlier with competitive matches," Thompson told BBC Scotland.

"This is a step in the right direction.

 "I would move towards loading the fixtures through the summer and completely shutting down for a long period over the winter." 

The new changes announced by the Scottish Professional Football League also include a bonus point system where drawn games in the group stage will go directly to penalties, and a reintroduction of a two-week winter break in January.

A man who repeatedly raped two babies and sexually assaulted a young girl has been given a life sentence.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard Stuart Young, 37, attacked his youngest victim, -a baby bo -between when he was one day and three months old.

He also raped a girl, aged six months, and abused a nine-year old girl in Edinburgh.

The judge said he violated his victims "in the most unimaginably cruel and depraved manner" and ordered him to serve at least eight years in prison.

Waste water from a sewer is being used to power a heating system at the Borders College campus in Galashiels.

Energy Minister Fergus Ewing officially launched the UK's first SHARC energy recovery system.

It intercepts waste water from near a Scottish Water treatment works and uses a heat pump to then "amplify" its "natural warmth".

The system has been estimated to provide 95% of the heat needed by the Galashiels campus.

It is hoped the 20-year purchase agreement can produce savings in energy, costs and carbon emissions.

Scotland needs a "unified national policy" to better protect its moorland landscapes, according to the Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA).

It said 75% of the world's remaining heather was found in the UK, with most of it covering large parts of Scotland.

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SGA said heather moors attracted tourists, but warned of "huge areas" of this landscape being lost to farming and forestry.

The organisation has released a new report detailing the decline.

The 34-page document was written by independent ecologist Dr James Fenton, who previously worked for the National Trust for Scotland and Scottish Natural Heritage.

A leading Scottish public relations figure has called for an end to unpaid internships across the PR, media and marketing industries.

Alex Barr, founding director of PR and digital media firm The Big Partnership, said the practice was often "tantamount to slave labour".

His comments came as the agency said it would pay all its interns the voluntary living wage of £8.25 per hour.

It said it had already paid interns the national minimum wage for many years.

The agency, which has offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dunfermline and Liverpool, has taken on more than 40 interns in the past two years.

Seven of them have subsequently been given full-time permanent roles.

Highland councillors have been asked to grant planning consent for two wind farms near historic landmarks.

Nanclach Limited has sought permission to build 13 larger turbines on Cawdor Estates land near Tomatin instead of the 17 it already has consent for.

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Lochindorb, the ruined stronghold of the Wolf of Badenoch, is nearby.

Highland Council officers have also recommended approval of RES Ltd's 13-turbine Culachy Wind Farm near the Corrieyairick Pass.

 The pass is a well-known landscape popular with hillwalkers and was also used as a route into the Highlands by government armies during the Jacobite Risings.  

An 83-year-old man, who was sacked by B&Q for leaving his till open for three-and-a-half minutes, has won his case for unfair dismissal.

Ivor Smith was sacked for gross misconduct after helping a customer with change at the firm's Parkhead branch in Glasgow in August last year.

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An employment judge has now ruled that he was unfairly dismissed and awarded Mr Smith, who is from East Kilbride, £4,877.

His son Alan said the whole process had left his father "shattered".

Scottish companies are ramping up their recruitment plans for the new year, according to a new report.

Manpower's quarterly employment outlook survey, which tracks confidence in the jobs market, found respondents at their most positive since the third quarter of 2013.

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The recruitment firm said Scotland slightly lagged the UK in confidence for the first quarter of next year.

But it added that the outlook was "much rosier" than it was for all of 2015.

Former first minister Alex Salmond has voiced concerns that changes to stop and search powers could hamper efforts to tackle knife crime.

MSPs are set to approve new legislation that aims to introduce a statutory code for the use of stop and search.

During the Holyrood debate, Mr Salmond said he wanted to see more analysis of how knife crime could be affected.

Justice secretary Michael Matheson said he was confident police would have the necessary powers to combat knife crime.

The measures are contained in the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill, which will be voted on by Holyrood later.

A music teacher found with more than 21,000 indecent images of children has been struck off.

Timothy Geaney admitted taking or permitting the images to be taken between April 2004 and February 2014.

He was made the subject of a community payback order and put on the sex offenders register earlier this year.

He has now been removed from his profession's register following a General Teaching Council Scotland hearing.

In February, Dumfries Sheriff Court heard how most of the images he had downloaded were of young boys partially dressed in erotic poses with no sexual activity.

A former hospitality manager sparked a major incident at a Scottish holiday resort after building a nail bomb with sugar, a court has heard.

Mark Crockett made the explosive device after checking into a chalet at Logierait Pine Lodges near Pitlochry, Perthshire, in February.

The 53-year-old wrote a suicide note and a letter to police explaining how the nail bomb had been constructed.

Crockett, of Falkirk, admitted making the device. Sentence at the High Court in Aberdeen was deferred.

Engineers on the Forth Road Bridge have been carrying out a controlled test to check out structural behaviour on the bridge, which was closed on Friday because of a crack in a steel support beam member.

The 2cm-wide fracture in the load-bearing link appeared at the north tower but engineers are also concerned about seven other sites.

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They used gritters for the controlled testing because "they are most convenient and we know their weight".

FRB engineers tweeted: "This allowed us to measure the rotation of the pin in the joint and will inform detailed design of the repair."

The device they used to measure (called a Moire Tell-tale) can detect rotation down to 0.1 of a millimetre.