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The passengers on flight BA3271 from London to Düsseldorf took a moment when the commander of the aircraft welcomed them to Edinburgh after a short flight.

An avalanche on the highest mountain in the United Kingdom has cost the lives of at least three climbers. A fourth person was injured, reports the newspaper The Scotsman.

The Scottish serial killer Angus Sinclair is dead. The 73-year-old man died in Alloa prison at night, reports British media. He was convicted of four murders, but brought...

A day after the discovery of various letter bombs in London, suspicious packages were discovered on Wednesday in the Scottish city of Glasgow and in Colchester in England. A similar incident did...

The police in Norfolk had a good talk with Prince Philip, after the very old Duke of Edinburgh two days after his involvement in a traffic accident without a seat belt...

Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon was not surprised at the historic defeat of Theresa May in the vote on her Brexit deal. 'It had been clear for months that it was coming',...

Memorial services in the Scottish city of Lockerbie mark the 30-year-old attack on a Pan Am-jumbo jet this week, killing 270 people.

60-year-old Diane de Zoysa could breathe a sigh of relief when she arrived back in Scotland, but she is a ton of lighter to her now murdered toyboy (26).

Two thousand euros per bottle! You can not do that to a customer! Daniele Di Guiliomaria has just tasted a bit of whiskey from 1988. It is not easy for him. 'Pretty flat. Should have been bottled ten years ago. '

Co-founder Maria Alyokhina of the activist Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot hopes to perform in De Oosterpoort in Groningen in January. She has a program in which she tells others about the original group, which in 2012 made the world press with a protest in a church in Moscow against the conditions under which Russian elections were held. The action against church and Kremlin gave her a prison sentence.

After centuries of speculation, the final answer is quickly coming: does the Loch Ness monster exist?

The 20-year-old Ciara was quick to get a hamburger at McDonald's in Edinburgh, but when she had taken a few bites, she made a discovery that took away all appetite. On top of a piece of lettuce was a dead spider.

The former Minister of Education of the Spanish region of Catalonia has signed up with the Scottish police. Clara Ponsati, like the former leader Carles Puigdemont and a few other ministers, is wanted by the Spanish justice because they proclaimed independence from Catalonia.

For the price of a small apartment in Amsterdam you can buy an entire island off the coast of Scotland.

The 7-year-old Crystal from the American state of Texas has written an emotional letter to Santa. She does not want presents but rather a blanket or some food. 'Because at home I only have one blanket and that is not warm enough.'

Schiphol has scrapped hundreds of flights due to the snowfall. In the course of the afternoon the last runway that was still open was also closed. The Dutch who would fly back home today are therefore stuck abroad.

Thousands of people brave the cold in the night from Saturday to Sunday to sleep in Edinburgh in Scotland. They hope to raise money to help the homeless, reports British media.

The Scottish Parliament is cleared on Tuesday afternoon because one or more suspicious packages have been found.

The authorities in Britain investigate how certain two detainees could share self-image photos on social media. On the pictures you can see how the men are taking a bath in a sink.

The tropical storm Ophelia extends over Britain. After Ireland, Ophelia has reached Scotland, where the tropical storm again causes a lot of nuisance.

The career of a 16-year-old British scholar at a peer-school private school should only take one week. The boy was sent away because he was screaming under the influence of xtc at the Sunday church service. The boy held nothing but the final suspension, nothing about the incident.

A strong testimony of political correctness in Edinburgh where a law student is under threat because he confessed to Facebook that IS terrorists were bombarded in Afghanistan.

A scouring crocodile that made the shallow seas unsafe 164 million years ago is named after the sometimes even fierce Ian 'Lemmy' Kilmister, the deceased singer of the British heavy metal band Motörhead. Scientists have baptized the 5.8 meter long reptile, baptized as Lemmysuchus obtusidens.

Royal Bank of Scotland wants to establish its European trading business after the brexit in Amsterdam. Topman Ross McEwan said Friday that RBS had a conversation with supervisors about the move.

Scottish Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Friday in a letter asked her British colleague Theresa May for a new referendum on Scotland's independence. The request follows the termination of membership of the European Union by the United Kingdom. May sent the notice Wednesday to the EU headquarters in Brussels.

The Scottish Parliament on Tuesday agreed to a referendum on independence.

The Scottish Parliament on Tuesday by an overwhelming majority (90 to 34) the plan of the British Prime Minister Theresa May to leave the European Union rejected. It was a symbolic, non-binding vote, which only highlights how the different countries of the United Kingdom consider the Brexit. England and Wales are, Northern Ireland and Scotland at the exit from the EU.

Queen Elizabeth can choose to US President Donald Trump to receive during his state visit her Scottish retreat Balmoral instead of Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle. That suggests the former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond. Balmoral is remote and therefore there is the likelihood of mass protest against the arrival of Trump smaller.

If London rejects Scottish conditions Brexit, Scotland should have the opportunity to vote for independence. That said Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon Scotland Tuesday in response to the British government plans to leave the European Union.

Scotland will remain part of the EU single market component after the British departure from the EU. That said, the Scottish Minister Nicola Sturgeon according to the BBC when she presented her proposals on the future relationship between Edinburgh and Brussels.