The first company in the UK dedicated to tackling antisocial behaviour will employ a dozen CCTV vans and innovative audio-visual technology in its battle against low-level crime.

One of Scotland’s best-known oil industry entrepreneurs promised a £20m bonanza for charity after he and relatives netted £135m by selling shares in the company that he chairs.

Five of Scotland’s most respected doctors have raised new concerns over the building to replace the country’s biggest children’s hospital.

Street pastors could soon be helping to tackle antisocial behaviour in Perth after eight volunteers signed up to join the pioneering project.

A Perth councillor believes that cuts to the local authority’s childminding service are “short-sighted” and will have a wide impact. Perth and Kinross Council has decided not to renew the contract of a senior childminder and will not be extending their service level agreement with the Scottish Childminding Association.

The level of overcrowding at Perth Prison is a threat to “privacy, decency and safety”, according to an inspection report. The Chief Inspector of Prisons, Dr Andrew McLellan, was particularly concerned that three prisoners often have to share a cell.

Gangs of middle-class children are being blamed by police for disfiguring hundreds of buildings and signs across the Scottish capital with graffiti. Police in Edinburgh said the respectable backgrounds of many of the worst culprits was making it difficult to trace and prosecute them.

The move to improve the diet of Scotland’s schoolchildren has been one of the Scottish Executive’s most important and high-profile initiatives. Keen to ensure that new guidelines would provide a solid base for the next generation, the Executive set up an expert advisory body consisting of nutritionists, dentists and education watchdogs to decide on what food should be served in school canteens and tuck shops.

Police carried out dawn raids across Fife yesterday in a bid to net alleged drug dealers. In the biggest-ever operation by Fife Police, more than 130 cops targeted 11 addresses in co-ordinated raids.

Prostitutes in Glasgow have been telling STV how they fear for their lives after another killing. Susan Shivers was working as a prostitute when she was stabbed three weeks ago. The 27-year-old fell ill again on Friday and died on her way to hospital.