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1. Ten minute habit could boost your GLP-1 without medication

   GLP-1 helps regulate appetite and blood sugar

2. More than 25,000 crimes written off by Police Scotland in just over two years

   Crimes such as shoplifting, theft and vandalism are among those being marked no action – “directly filed” – under Police Scotland's Proportionate Response to Crime (PRTC) policy.

3. Scotland's top universities facing £187mil cuts while bosses rake in £3.2mil

   Edinburgh, Strathclyde, ­Aberdeen and Glasgow all paid lavish packages to their jet-setting vice-chancellors despite grappling with financial shortfalls that could see hundreds of staff made redundant.

4. Spider-Man villain Jon Bernthal says Glasgow action scenes were 'some of the best ever'

   Jon Bernthal reprises his role as brutal antihero Punisher for upcoming movie Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which brought Holywood to Scotland last August.

5. Scotland's taxpayers face £54mil bill for 'failing' hydrogen bus and boiler schemes

   It follows the collapse of a hydrogen bus deal in Aberdeen, led by Tory donor Jo Bamford, son of JCB billionaire Lord Bamford.

6. Scottish Labour needs sharp dividing lines with the SNP if they are to put up an election fight

   Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says Labour are miles behind the SNP in the polls and need to ditch their innate caution and small c conservatism.

7. Scotland's drug deaths epidemic worsens again with 8% rise in lives lost last year

   Glasgow had the highest tally of drug deaths with 243 despite the first year of the city’s controversial consumption room

8. Irn-Bru superfans mark Scotland’s other national drink's 125th birthday with tattoos

   Scots flocked to the first ever pop-up “Tat-BRU” parlour.

9. Homework would be banned in primary schools under new Scottish Greens proposals

   The party’s manifesto for the Holyrood election in May will also include a commitment to end “Victorian-era high stakes exams” in secondaries.

10. Holyrood parties back Sunday Mail fuel help campaign for terminally ill Scots

    Opposition parties at Holyrood are now urging the Scottish Government to implement the policy, which could be administered through existing records at Social Security Scotland.