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A woman gives birth on the pavement outside a Fife hospital after she was unable to get inside the building.

A 21-Gun Royal Salute is fired at Edinburgh Castle to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne.

Work is to start soon on a major office development in Glasgow city centre, after the project gains planning permission.

One of Scotland's largest law firms, McGrigors, announces it is to merge with London-based international firm Pinsent Masons.

Scottish firms are being "locked out" of public procurement contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds, a think-tank claims.

With four fifth-round ties yet to be decided, 12 teams enter Monday's Scottish Cup quarter-final draw at Hampden.

Funding of almost £8m is awarded for heritage and conservations projects across Scotland's six cities.

The father of murdered schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton is reunited with some of her possessions almost 21 years after she went missing.

Two prison workers have been accused of having suspicious substances in their luggage as they returned on a flight from Amsterdam.

Demand for credit cards is "feeling the strain" as UK borrowers turn to other forms of finance, a report suggests.

A construction organisation is urging Highland councillors to make a decision on the controversial Inverness West Link road.

A dog that fell through ice on a Dundee reservoir at Clatto Country Park is rescued by a team of specialist firefighters.

FirstBus is referred to the Office of Fair Trading by Aberdeen MSP Kevin Stewart over its market position and prices.

The chief executive of NHS Dumfries and Galloway says demographic changes are the greatest challenge to services in the area.

Soldiers of the Black Watch are preparing the ground for a British military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Scotland international Alasdair Strokosch is to leave Gloucester at the end of the season for Perpignan.

BBC Scotland news sees British troops in Afghanistan training in a simulator which has been hit by a roadside bomb.

A 22-year-old fiddler from Oban has been crowned BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2012.

Scotland's winter music festival Celtic Connections sells more than a million tickets for the fifth year in a row.

A motorist is taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for treatment after a two-car collision in Aberdeenshire.