‘Mood music from the company is very different from when they announced Kilmarnock closure’
By Scottish Political Editor Tom Gordon

By Toby MacDonald

By Edd McCracken

By Tom Gordon, Scottish Political Editor

MP, residents and mayor want investigation into possible design flaws
By James Cusick and Martin Williams

INVESTIGATION: US detention centre under suspicion as eerily familiar claims OF torture and rendition flights surface from the airbase on the outskirts of Kabul. by Ian Pannell, BBC Afghanistan Correspondent

AFGHANISTAN: Operation Sword Strike seen as defining stage in American foreign policy
By Trevor Royle, Diplomatic Editor

USA: NRA membership up 30% as public react to threat of handgun ban
From Andrew Purcell in New York

SPAIN: Goring optional as straight-laced northern Spanish town braces for annual week of madness
From Elizabeth Nash in Pamplona

TEGUCIGALPA: By Andrew McLeod

Essay of the week by Sylvia Patterson

Edith Bowman

Tom Shields

Claire Fox

Roxanne Sorooshian

CELTIC: New manager Tony Mowbray is determined not to let his team’s pre-season campaign hamstring their campaign from the outset, finds Michael Grant

MOTHERWELL: The battle to keep his team in the Europa League isn’t the only fight this outspoken manager has taken up, finds Michael Grant. He’s also gunning for onfield thuggery

ON THE SPOT: Michael Grant

ON THE SPOT: Michael Grant

FALKIRK: Eddie May may be a managerial novice, but he knows his club inside out and is convinced its new structure will guarantee stability. Michael Grant reports

EU threats to break merged group intensify
By Kenny Kemp

Crisis-hit football club has just 10 days to pay off £280,000 council rent arrears
By Kenny Kemp

Employers’ body joins row over drinks giants’ shedding of hundreds of jobs at its Scottish facilities
By Colin Donald

Controversial bonus scheme prompts revolt by retailer’s investors
By John Phelps

By Colin Donald

By Teddy Jamieson

T in the Park audiences in for a something a little different as progressive rock band The Mars Volta take to the T in the Park stage next weekend. By Sean Bell

16 unsigned bands covering the whole spectrum of Scottish music will be showcased at T in the Park

Florence And The Machine
Lungs
(Island)
Reviewed by Edd McCracken

FILM REVIEWS: Public Enemies (15)
Director: Michael Mann
Reviewed by Demetrios Matheou

From contortions to infectious bass lines, shingai shoniwa of noisettes refuses to be restricted in her ascent. By Graeme Green

How Britain’s most daring climber became the focus of his wife’s Bafta-winning film
Interview by Richard Baynes

Scotland’s famous Curry King made his fortune in the Indian restaurant trade – now his daughter wants to make her own

Emily Booth: Actress and TV presenter

My son is preparing for the apocalypse but that’s not what’s making me cry