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Douglas Mill SLN readers will have detected a recent dimming of the Northern Lights.

London is believed to be among a handful of cities where cocaine can be delivered faster than pizza, researchers have said. Professor Adam R Winstock, founder of the Global Drug Survey, said new technology had revolutionised the black market for drugs.

A rape case has collapsed days before trial after evidence emerged showing the defendant cuddling his accuser in bed. Samson Makele, 28, was accused of raping a woman he met in 2016 at the Notting Hill Carnival.

Pictured (L-R): Jennifer Young, Uisdean Vass and Laura Petrie

An MSP is proposing to bring forward legislation to make the installation of sprinklers mandatory in all new-build social housing. If enacted, David Stewart’s bill would place a duty on local authorities and Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) to install automatic fire suppression systems into all

Paul Chapman Intellectual property practice Marks & Clerk filed the highest number of Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications between January 2014 and December 2016 according to data published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

Macdonald Henderson has advised Old College Capital, University of Edinburgh’s investment arm, in its investment alongside Scottish Investment Bank, Equity Gap and high-net-worth individuals, in a £1.6 million funding round in Shot Scope Technologies, maker of a performance-tracking watch for gol

Sheriff Cruickshank The new sheriff at Lerwick Sheriff Court will take up his post next month, the Shetland News reports.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has fined (for the first time ever) a merging party for a failure to provide information during a merger investigation, write David Flint and Rebecca Ferguson.

A former partner in a property letting department of a firm of chartered surveyors who was interdicted from soliciting business from any company clients with which he had dealings after he set up a rival agency has successfully appealed against a decision that he was in breach of the court’s order

A 42-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment and told he must serve a minimum of 23 years in jail for murdering his mother. The High Court in Glasgow heard that in the late evening of 11 February 2017 William Kelly assaulted his mother and set her alight at the home they shared in Kilma

Professor Dame Sue Black A re-examination of the medical evidence which led to the execution of William Bury, the last man hanged in Dundee 129 years ago, will be staged at a public mock trial next month, organised by the University of Dundee.

A drunken reveller at a music festival got more than he bargained for after he started a fight with a plainclothes police officer. Wayne Liang, 38, was arrested after he pushed sergeant Zhang Zhengyang off his seat and stomped on his foot at the Ultra Music Festival in 2016.

JP Campbell Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP has welcomed JP Campbell to the firm in the role of private client associate.

Kenny Crawford The latest publication of the monthly UK House Price Index (UK HPI) shows that the average price of a property in Scotland in November 2017 was £145,992 – an increase of 3.6 per cent on November in the previous year and an increase of 1.1 per cent when compared to the previous mont