Scotland kick off their Guinness Six Nations campaign at home to Italy on Saturday. Here, the PA news agency takes a look at five talking points ahead of the Murrayfield showdown.

Dan Skelton hailed John Hales as “a great man for our sport and all horse sports” after the leading owner died at the age of 85. Hales has seen several top-class National Hunt performers carry his ...

A body has been recovered from a river near where two missing sisters were last seen in Aberdeen. Henrietta and Eliza Huszti, 32, part of a set of triplets who moved to Scotland from Hungary, were ...