Inward migration will fuel Scotland's population growth over the next 23 years, a new report predicts.

Michael Stoney said new early release laws were necessary for staff and inmates at Barlinnie prison in Glasgow.

Scotland's population is expected to grow to 5.8 million over the next two decades – all of it coming from immigration.

Upland birds have shown the largest declines at around 20 per cent. Long-term changes in upland bird populations have been ...

The UK is home to over a third of the world’s grey seal population, according to SMRU. The animals’ increase, since the cessation of culls in the 1970s and the ban of hunting in the early 1980s, has ...

Barlinnie is Scotland's largest jail with around 1400 prisoners despite a capacity for under 1000. The jail is to be replaced ...