Scottish government

Marriage laws in Scotland currently allow those aged 16 and 17 to wed without parental consent.

The deal comes at a time when the state-owned shipyard had only one contract remaining on its books.

The Aberdeen University research prompts calls for a change in the delivery of health services.

A Holyrood committee says a lack of orders and reputational damage need to be overcome for the Ferguson Marine yard to prosper.

The future of five already delayed NHS treatment centres to deal with a backlog of operations will not be known until December.

Dunfermline-based Greenfold Systems told staff their jobs could go as a knock-on effect of Alexander Dennis planning to move operations to England.

Opposition parties raised concerns that the reforms were simply a "superficial rebrand".

The first minister seems keen to avoid undermining the UK's positions on defence.