A combination of luck and incompetence prevented a terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport “on the scale of Lockerbie”, according to a security expert.

A revamp of Perth Prison should make it “fit for the 21st century” – according to its governor, Kate Donegan.

Glasgow City Council has appointed David Crawford as the new Service Director for Social Work. Currently the Director of Social Work at Renfrewshire Council, Mr Crawford will take on his role in August as part of Glasgow City Council’s new Education and Social Work Department.

New research released by ‘see me’, reveals that Scotland has taken significant steps towards tackling the stigma of mental ill health. The findings are contained in ‘A Fairer Future: Building Understanding – Moving Forward Together’.

The decision to drop criminal charges against the owners of a care home where 14 elderly residents died in a fire was upheld at the appeal court. Thomas Balmer, 59, his wife Anne, 59, and their son, Alan, 33, had been due to stand trial over alleged safety breaches at the Rosepark Care Home in Uddingston, Lanarkshire.

Councillor Elaine McDougall, Glasgow City Council’s Executive Member for Social Work Services, has commented on the publication of the Social Work Inspection Agency’s report on social services within Glasgow.

Guidelines setting out a “benchmark” for the care of children with autism in Scotland have been published. It is the first time in the UK that clinicians, parents and carers have drawn up the evidence-based standards.

A growing number of attacks on Polish bar workers is being blamed for race hate crimes rising to record levels in Edinburgh.

A Sheriff yesterday criticised the Home Office for not deporting a failed asylum seeker who was later caught handling a record haul of raw opium.

Police have seized more than £12m of heroin in one of the biggest drug raids in Scottish history.