MINISTERS have been accused of over-committing to rail investment programmes they could not afford after it emerged they made an extraordinary attempt to defer loan repayments on more than £2.5 billion of railway debt.
OFFICIALS expressed private doubts about the Scottish Government's ability to pay for its ambitious five-year programme of rail improvements before cuts were announced in summer, a report has confirmed.
BMI Regional is to launch a twice-daily flight between Aberdeen and Bristol at the end of October after its purchase by an Aberdeen-based consortium from British Airways owner IAG.
BILINGUAL road signs will be erected along a 120-mile stretch of the A9 after research concluded that having English and Gaelic place names alongside each other does not increase the risk of accidents.
EDINBURGH residents who complained about traffic pollution due to tram works have won a partial victory in a bid to have information released by the council.
A COMPETITION to run the CalMac network of ferry services off Scotland's west coast has been delayed by three years amid a privatisation row, a union has claimed.
PURCHASES of new cars have recovered significantly since the start of Britain's economic crisis in 2008 but remain lower than a decade earlier, figures show.
MOST people want Britain's railways to be returned to public ownership amid the fiasco of who will run the West Coast Main Line, according to a survey.
FASTER trains between Inverness and the central belt were among a raft of service improvements unveiled by ScotRail as part of a timetable overhaul due on December 9.
WORK is to get under way on Scotland's first privately-funded motorway junction, which will cause disruption for motorists travelling on the M8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh for a year.
TRAIN services between Glasgow and London could be temporarily re-nationalised following a legal challenge to the Government's £10 billion franchise deal on the route.
