A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda next week, from the team at Foresight News.

Now on its third leader in two years, the party has been mired in internal strife and scandal surrounding the fraud investigation into former leader Nicola Sturgeon and her husband, Peter Murrell. And with the conference coming off the back of a troubled general election campaign which saw the party lose 39 seats in the House of the Commons, new First Minister John Swinney will be keen to reassure the party faithful he can turn the ship around and offer a new path forward in its flagging campaign for a second independence referendum.

The Paris Olympics saw a host of star names deliver on the biggest sporting stage and managed to overshadow the political division in France that had threatened to overshadow the country’s hosting of this year’s games. Attention now turns to the Paralympics, which begin with an opening ceremony in the centre of Paris on Wednesday (August 28) before the sporting competitions get underway the following day.