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Excitement is building ahead of Scotland's first game in the men's World Cup for 28 years.
A selection of photographs submitted to BBC Scotland News from around the country this week.
Two of the 75m (250ft) blades were taken through Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway to the site.
Alice Jolly's The Matchbox Girl wins the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize at the Borders Book Festival.
Lorraine McCall has climbed all the Donalds after completing all the Munros, Corbetts and Grahams
Tom Jenkins arrived in the Scottish Borders as a child aboard a slave ship in 1803.
Bereaved families say they are angry that the same issues have been reoccurring for years.
An online petition against the £2bn scheme gathers nearly 7,000 signatures in the space of a week.
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The Accounts Commission has warned local authorities that their funding plans are not keeping pace with rising costs.
A volunteer from the Borders says plans to remove their remuneration has hit morale in the service.
More than 600 plants were found by police in a property on Victoria Street in Newton Stewart.
A previous bid to secure protection for the Langholm Moor goats was refused by the Scottish Parliament.
Corespace - which runs Moat Brae in Dumfries - is now taking over Ettrick Riverside in Selkirk.
The Scottish Land Commission says the market has been hit by lower than expected returns from environmental schemes.
Councillors in the region drop the process entirely and will consult no further on the proposals.
Detailed surveys reveal significant issues at the former secondary sites in Galashiels and Peebles.
Dougie is in East Sutherland to find out about the challenges of modern crofting, and Shahbaz visits the Bone Caves in Assynt to see how an increase in visitor numbers is damaging the site.
The migrant fishermen who waited nine years to give evidence about the company that exploited them.
Thomas Nicholson, 63, is understood to be the first person in Scotland to receive and breach a Trafficking and Exploitation Risk Order.