EMERGENCY: Fire crews have been battling to save a world-famous art school building after a major blaze engulfed the structure.

The fire at Glasgow School of Art’s Charles Rennie Mackintosh building was reported at about 12.30pm.

Witnesses said flames could be seen spreading across the roof while massive plumes of smoke filled the surrounding sky.

MIGRATION: Scotland needs almost 500,000 migrants over the next 20 years to achieve the same balance of pensioners and working-age adults as Britain, according to the Treasury.

The increase would be the equivalent of adding another Edinburgh to Scotland's population, the UK Government department said.

The ageing population and the implications on levels of migration is one of five key areas considered in the Treasury's latest analysis assessing an independent Scotland's fiscal position between 2016 - the first year of independence - and 2035/36.

POLITICS: Childcare proposals for an independent Scotland “don't add up,” Treasury analysts said yesterday.

The Westminster government department has challenged one of the central policies of the Scottish government}s independence plan as part of its analysis of the fiscal implications of a Yes vote in the referendum.

The Scottish Government has pledged to provide all three and four-year-olds, and vulnerable two-year-olds, with 1,140 hours of childcare per year by 2020.

DEATH: An elderly woman has died after discovering her home had been burgled, police said.

Officers were called to the property, in Bradley Stoke, Bristol, at 12.39pm on Thursday.

The call was made by a relative who had been checking the house while the homeowners were away.