Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In his first Budget since Scotland’s independence referendum, George Osborne hailed UK unity and offered ...

Philip Hammond backs down over Scottish regiment names. ... in 2005 to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland, but they were promised they could keep their historic names and hackles. ...

OPPOSITION politicians reacted angrily yesterday to The Herald revelation that the Black Watch regiment is facing possible disbandment. Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who is heading the Tories' election ...

Part 13. Another change of regiment. Before the Mounted Patrol. This story is a return to the War a period of high casualties. Once again the lad had a change of address, the First Welch was ...

THE three Lowland infantry regiments, whose members have traditionally worn tartan trews for centuries, will be forced to wear kilts when the government's planned new Scottish "super-regiment" is ...

THE red hackle symbol of the historic Black Watch regiment is set to disappear from the cap badges of TA soldiers. Instead, they will wear purple hackles in a drive to forge "common TA identities ...

The view from above on this wild and exposed stretch of Scotland's eastern coast looks nothing like a transatlantic battlefield.

Acclaimed Canadian author Eric McCormack's novel Cloud is a work of literary Gothicism about a travelling businessman who makes a chance discovery that prompts him to seek out the ghosts of his past.

A Scottish group is set to take up a residency at the loyalist protest camp at Twaddell Avenue in north Belfast, it can be revealed. The Glasgow-based Regimental Blues have published a statement ...

Jeff Duncan, organiser of the Save the Scottish Regiments campaign, ... the identity of the individual components of the new regiment in otherways, such as the Black Watch's trademark red hackle.

In an abrupt about-turn, Philip Hammond said he understood widespread anger at proposals to scrap cap badge names of Scotland's historic regiments, such as the Black Watch. However, he warned that ...