Recent Scottish Government's 2009/2010 budget has allocated £8.64bn to each health board.

Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said that it means health boards will have the resources they need to progress their plans and offer a first class service to patients across Scotland."

She added: "With nearly £400m for NHS building projects across Scotland, it also shows that this government will do everything within its power to support sectors of our economy, like construction, that are suffering most during the recession."

Edinburgh, Jan. 27: SHE has been described as Scotland''s Schindler for refusing to abandon dozens of Jewish orphans in Budapest during the Second World War.

But Jane Haining, who paid for her beliefs with her life, has yet to be formally recognized in Britain for her heroic deeds.

Today, as Britain marks Holocaust Memorial Day, senior politicians are calling for a change in the honours system so Haining can be properly honored for her courage and selflessness, reports The Scotsman.

London, Jan 19: Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns has become the first non-Royal to be honoured with three collections of stamps.

Burns, whose new edition of stamps will be unveiled by the Royal Mail this week, has outdone even wartime leader Winston Churchill, who got just two editions, and William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens, who both got just one edition each, reports the Scotsman.

London, Jan 4 : Gordon Brown is certainly a health freak, for when asked to nominate his favourite dish, the UK leader plumped for Rumbledethumps - a gloopy mixture of mashed potato and cabbage.

The Prime Minister is among a number of politicians who have named their favourite foods for a fundraising book in aid of the Donaldson''s school for the deaf in Edinburgh.

Brown has claimed in the book that he got a taste for the dish as a boy, recalling how he would come back from watching Raith Rovers matches to find the dish on the table, prepared by his mother, reports the Scotsman.

The book reveals that his `economical' eating habits are shared by his fellow politicians too.

London, Nov 23 : Treasure hunters have unearthed the first Roman tombstone in Scotland for more than 170 years, among other rare artifacts that were dug up at the site.

According to a report by BBC News, the red sandstone artifact was found by enthusiast Larney Cavanagh at the edge of a field near Inveresk in Scotland.

The artefact was for a man called Crescens, a bodyguard for the governor who ran the province of Britain for the Roman Emperor.

It forms part of Scotland''s annual Treasure Trove, items found by archaeologists or enthusiasts which have been handed to the Crown Office.

Other pieces include a 5,000-year-old axe head, a Bronze Age sword and mysterious carved stone balls.

Glasgow (Scotland), Nov. 19 : New Argentina football coach Diego Maradona is reportedly distraught over fears that his daughter Giannina might suffer a miscarriage.

Giannina, the partner of Argentina’s star striker Sergio Aguero, was rushed to a Madrid hospital with pregnancy complications.

Maradona granted his future son-in-law permission to immediately jet home to be with her and miss tonight’s Hampden clash with Scotland, The Sun reports.