A TINY but ’n’ ben is about to get a new – and noisy – lease of life. The cottage in Angus is the former family home of the American Scot who helped found the most iconic motorbike ever produced. Now devotees of the Harley-Davidson brand have used their own money to buy the cottage to turn it into a pilgrimage site for bikers around the world.

WHEN Marion McIntyre’s health deteriorated due to dementia, her carer and daughter Iris had no choice but to seek respite support before finally having to let her go into a nursing home.

THE company behind a drug which could extend the lives of men suffering from prostate cancer has asked again for the treatment to be made available to NHS patients.

SCOTLAND should be included in plans for the high speed rail network, an SNP MP has claimed.

A YOUNG woman who died after a fire ripped through her Inverness home was named locally yesterday as Angela Ireland.

THE Queen is to be presented with a petition aimed at ending laws imposed by the British government on the vanquished Jacobite clans after the 1715 and 1745 risings.

IT WAS one of the most bizarre maritime losses of the Second World War. A German U-boat was apparently forced to surface off the Scottish coast after filling with chlorine gas following a toilet malfunction – and the vessel was then scuttled by its crew.

IT WAS famously how they finally got Al Capone. Now Scotland’s Crown Office has revealed that it is pursuing more than £2 million of unpaid tax from some of the country’s biggest organised crime gangs.

SECOND World War veterans who served on Arctic convoys should be given a dedicated campaign medal, veterans minister Keith Brown said.

DOWNPOURS, floods and gale-force winds will hit much of Scotland today following a brief sunny break in the clouds yesterday, the Met Office has warned.