Minister Kirsty McNeill said a ‘diverse range of achievers’ would be at the event hosted by the Scotland Office in London.

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Explore Britain, save money, and protect the environment when you take this iconic sleeper train that runs from London up to Scotland's Highlands and Lowlands.

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The North and South of London will be divided once again tomorrow as half of the capital is in for a snowy Wednesday. The Met Office has issued further weather warnings for snow and ice in London and across the country heading into Wednesday.

Denis Law, the Manchester United great and Scotland international, has died. He was 84. The death of Law, who also played for Manchester City, was announced in a statement from his family that was released by United.

Temperatures are set to slowly creep up in London as the country’s bitter cold snap comes to an end – and the thaw could lead to some flooding. As temperatures move above 0C, ice and snow will begin to melt, with localised flooding possible, the Met Office said.

There are severe delays on the London Underground’s Metropolitan Line this morning after a signal failure in Rickmansworth. Transport for London (TfL) has said there is no service between Moor Park and Amersham / Chesham and severe delays between Watford and Harrow-on-the-Hill. There are minor delays on the rest of the line.

Two men Sophie an rely on are her friends and Made in Chelsea co-stars Ollie and Gareth Locke. Sophie is godmother to their 17-month-old daughter Cosima and it was they who persuaded her to return to the show. "They basically forced me," she laughs. "I'm excited because the gang will be back together."

Law was the club's third top scorer, behind Wayne Rooney and Bobby Charlton, with 237 goals in 404 appearances. Read more at straitstimes.com.

House price data from Zoopla shows that half of all UK homes increased in value last year, with the average property seeing a £2,400 uplift. In London, however, only 40 per cent of homes rose in value, with the median London property increasing by just £1,400.

LONDON — Scottish environmental activists want to reintroduce the lynx into the forests of the Highlands. But not this way. At least two lynx, a medium-sized wildcat extinct in Scotland for hundreds of years, were spotted in the Highlands on Wednesday ...