The named person scheme looks to be facing further delay after opposition MSPs on the @ScotParl education committee voted to stall @johnswinney legislation

Electric shock collars are harmful, and expert advice is clear that electrocuting dogs doesn’t help train them. Sign our petition to ban them today: bit.ly/2A0m3B3 pic.twitter.com/rWClfDRyXH

Tremendous and clear sighted piece from @ProfTomkins on why regulatory equivalence must be UK wide. newstatesman.com/politics/stagg…

Pick of the bowlers this morning were Sharif 3/33, Sole 2/20 and a wicket each for Berrington, Watt and Leask.

Obanda will not bat again after he had to retire hurt earlier, so a run out brings Kenya's innings to a close. Scotland require 141 to secure a place in the ICC World Cup Qualifier! #followscotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

My thanks to @PolStudiesAssoc and apologies for being unable to pick up the award in person - hope you all had a good night. #PSAAwards twitter.com/PolStudiesAsso…

Edinburgh was the UK’s fastest growing tech hub this year - with growing numbers of coders choosing the capital ahead of London bit.ly/2Ash7V0 pic.twitter.com/9ozK2NgmC3

It’s the final countdown! Send #Paisley some love tonight. Follow us @Paisley2021 for updates as we reach the finish line #fingerscrossed #TeamPaisley twitter.com/paisley2021/st…

The International Olympic Committee has announced the Russian Olympic Committee has been banned from sending a team to the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang in South Korea

Mesh is a global scandal. We must act, and act decisively, before it ruins more lives. bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-s… via @BBCNews

My position on the current Brexit negotiations: pic.twitter.com/QDNiUwduWd

Very sorry to learn of the death of my former MP neighbour and constituent Jimmy Hood. Although Jimmy and I didn’t agree on that much, we always got on well and he was a great help to me when I was first elected to the Commons. My thoughts are with his wife and family.

Great visit to @VolunteerEdi this morning. Thanks to Paul and the team for talking me through the work they do. pic.twitter.com/PmNedsiQV8

.(She also adopted a Scottish-Pakistani baby in 1960, taken from his young, unmarried mother by the outraged white grandmother and left in an orphanage, where no one wanted him as he was brown. Raised him alone. Reader, I married him. Thank you Mum 🍷)

My MIL, who carried guns as a 12 year old in the Italian resistance, crossed war-torn Europe alone aged 17 with a baby to get to Scotland, demanded, and won that women could drink in The Garlogie Inn, had 3 cancers in 3 different decades, now 89 & drinks a bottle of Rioja a day. twitter.com/xnulz/status/9…

Best JPJ story from James Douglas Hamilton in a Lords debate on piracy, 10/11/2010. His forbear was raided by JPJ, dragon lady of the house demanded a receipt for what he robbed. & she got it back! pic.twitter.com/H3THxLalox

*sigh* twitter.com/ScotNational/s…

I really enjoyed this - piece written by a woman about her daughter and annotated by said daughter with click-through highlighted bits. Form fits subject. ☺ twitter.com/JohnRentoul/st…

salmond said we should judge his kremlin-funded show on its content. having watched his take on lockerbie, i have done so for @scotonsunday scotsman.com/news/opinion/e…

The state must act as an economic enabler for ordinary people, argues @RuthDavidsonMSP econ.st/2i00rO3 pic.twitter.com/cijWdf7JR3