Number of senior doctors planning to take early retirement is yet another warning sign about the existential threat faced by health service – The Scotsman

Network Rail to begin £3.5M weather resilience programme in Scotland – Ground Engineering

Drugs gang convicted over plot to flood streets of Inverness with cannabis and cocaine – Sky News

Robertson given ‘secret’ £33,000 wage top-up while SNP Westminster leader – STV News

Blood donor who refused to say if he was pregnant gets sent home by NHS Scotland – Euronews

SNP fraud investigation cops looking at burner phone sim cards, luxury pens and fridge freezer – Daily Record

Scotland is over-exposed to authoritarian China’s influence as it seeks to reshape the world – The Scotsman