This was Operation Varsity ... He expected to join his local regiment - the Royal Welsh Fusiliers - but instead was sent to join the The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire.

By Sarah Lyall Last year, the hit West End musical “Operation Mincemeat” embarked on a mischievous publicity campaign. “Are we too British for Broadway?” it asked, inviting Americans on ...

Police say they have made more than 100 arrests and laid more than 300 charges in a major national child exploitation operation. Representatives of the RCMP and other police forces provided an ...

To mark the 50th anniversary of the start of Operation ... with the Scots Guards in the 1990s. He said: “Such a significant number of our Armed Forces community were involved in Op Banner ...

If you know anything that could help, please do the right thing and speak to police." Scottish Prison Service officials told Edinburgh Live they would not comment on a personal matter.

There are any number and variety of Scottish regiments, high constables, lord high constables, great officers and banner bearers who can be deployed to enhance the sense of historic occasion.

Defence Ministry spokesman says security threats had been neutralised in al-Assad strongholds of Latakia and Tartous. Members of the Syrian security forces stop vehicles at a checkpoint, following ...

A statement from his publicist read: "Jack Vettriano's passing marks the end of an era for contemporary Scottish art. "His evocative and timeless works will continue to captivate and inspire ...

The email from Kevin Sutherland, personally considered by Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry chair Lady Smith, hinted at what he would do if she did not restore to him the anonymity usually granted to ...

But in the aftermath, Rangers raged at the 'saddening and frankly embarrassing behaviour' in the stands and hit out at the display of a banner in the Union Bears section. A banner displayed by the ...