Police Scotland say they have completed their investigation and "no criminality has been uncovered"

POLICE Scotland have completed their investigation into comments made by Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson and have said they have found "no criminality".

The investigation was triggered by comments made by Davidson just after polls closed in the referendum campaign that No campaigners had been "taking tallies" of postal vote samples around Scotland.

Scottish Conservative leader will say that EU membership rewards "makers and sellers"

THE LEADER of the Scottish Conservatives is to make a speech in Brussels calling for politicians who favour remaining within the EU to make a positive campaign for the EU in advance of Britain's 'in/out' referendum, which will be held by 2017.

Davidson will tell the New Direction think tank that the strongest pro-EU arguments are the ones that stress Europe's economic benefits to Britain.

Scots react to the arrival of desperate refugees in Europe

THE PUBLIC debate on refugees arriving in Europe has been dramatically changed by the shocking images of a three-year-old boy dead on a beach in Turkey, having drowned in a bid to escape Kurdistan.

At least 350,000 refugees, mainly from Africa and the Middle East, have entered Europe since the beginning of 2015 and are mainly fleeing war, persecution and economic crisis.

CommonSpace looks at the response from public figures and campaigners in Scotland

Davidson believes future of Scottish politics is SNP versus Conservatives

SCOTTISH Tory leader Ruth Davidson has said that a No vote in a future independence referendum would be easier to win in 15 years than it would be within the next five years, due to the effect of falling oil prices and devolution of tax powers.

DID you miss the Sunday Politics Scotland leaders debate on Sunday? After watching this, you might be glad you did.

YouTube user Peter Curran has uploaded 'the director's cut' - beware, it's very shouty.

Curran's video blurb says: "This is a light-hearted edit of the BBC Scottish Leaders' 'Debate' on sunday Politics Scotland today - nothing changed in sequence or content - just left the action in!

By journalist and broadcaster Derek Bateman

WE'RE BACK... after a week in the Perthshire hills we return to the Watershed Election. Did I miss much?

I saw glimpses of those leaders' coconut shies of which we probably need one or maybe two, fully spaced out from campaign start and then again towards the end, but really, haven't we had enough of the same fairground fun? They have now dominated the coverage and haven't left the public much endeared to the political leaderships of our country, I fear.

By columnist and film writer Alison Rowat

THEY were just another Scottish couple out for a walk on a Sunday afternoon.

Clad in coats, scarves, and with a look on the face of one of them that said: "I'd much rather be watching the boxed set of True Detective," the two stroll along a harbour front, bumping shoulders. Yet from such seemingly mundane images is the stuff of Scottish political history made.

For this is no ordinary couple. This is not even an M&S couple. This is Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson and her partner Jen Wilson.