POLITICS WERE set aside when First Minister Jack McConnell and Sir Sean Connery co-hosted a showcase of Scottish fashion in New York yesterday as part of the Tartan Week celebrations.

ALEX SALMOND, leader of the SNP MPs at Westminster, yesterday put politics in its place after watching the people of Arbroath commemorate the Declaration of Scottish Independence in front of the town’s ruined abbey.

Dunfermline may have to play FOUR games in SEVEN days to save the SPL split from being plunged into chaos.

Inverness Caledonian Thistle striker Paul Ritchie is adamant he won’t be seeking revenge on Dunfermline for their treatment of his father John, in Saturday’s Tennents Scottish Cup semi-final.