Backlog in operations causing concern in Tayside

direct to your inboxWith a small child in their arms two women meet on a prison car park.But this is no innocent visit to an inmate.Secretly filmed video footage shows the pair clinching a cash for drugs swap as part of a huge cross-Pennine trafficking operation including the supply of heroin and cocaine.Natalie Wrafter 31, and Shazia Din, 42, had just been to visit Natalie's father, Peter, at Doncaster jail.He was serving a 12 year sentence having been found in possession of a revolver and

Houston law officials rescued nearly 30 people from a house allegedly involved in human trafficking, according to reports. Houston police officers responded around 9 p.m.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterRadio Disney and Radio Disney Country are shutting down early next year.Disney Branded Television president Gary Marsh announced the news Thursday, which impacts 36 part-time and full-time employees. The move comes as Marsh’s division looks to emphasize the production of kids and family content for streaming service Disney Plus and the linear Disney Channels.Radio Disney first debuted in Nov.

Radio Disney is coming to an end.

Radio Disney and Radio Disney Country will cease operations in the first quarter of 2021 as the company’s top-to-bottom realignment continues.

direct to your inboxA ‘mammoth’ operation to crack a sophisticated encrypted phone system, used by gangs, has resulted in three more arrests.Early morning raids took place at addresses across Heywood, Chadderton, Miles Platting and Blackley on Thursday (December 3).Three men, aged 31, 34 and 36, are being held in custody on suspicion of firearm and drug offences.Officers seized electronic devices, cash and a quantity of drugs, which will be examined and used in evidence.Police say the action

JJ Chalmer will be whisked off the dance floor straight to the operating theatre as soon as his time on Strictly Come Dancing has come to an end.

Sean Connery’s cause of death has been revealed. The legendary actor, best known for being the first person to portray James Bond in a movie, died earlier this year at age 90 after stepping out of the spotlight many years prior to his death.

Sean Connery’s cause of death has been revealed.  The legendary actor, best known for being the first person to portray James Bond in a movie, died earlier this year at age 90 after stepping out of the spotlight many years prior to his death.  According to TMZ, which cites the Scottish actor’s death certificate, he died in his sleep from pneumonia, heart failure and old age.

Sir Sean Connery died after suffering heart failure, his death certificate has confirmed.

punter shorted out a pub after plugging in an electric heater he brought with him.The chilly customer was hoping to get cosy at the Newton Arms in Newtonhill, Kincardineshire.But his unorthodox plan backfired spectacularly when his heater shorted out all the pub's sockets.The pub posted on Facebook: "It's pretty surprising that we are about to write this but hey, it's 2020, so let's just go for it."Can we remind all customers that they are NOT permitted to bring their own electric heaters to the

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Only people who live, work or attend school in Johnstone are being asked to take part in the mass Covid-19 testing scheme.Scotland’s first mass testing centre for people with no symptoms of the virus is set to open in Johnstone Town Hall on Wednesday.The pilot project will see up to 12,000 people tested for the virus over the following seven days.Now Renfrewshire Council has confirmed it will only be locals

blind after a planned op was postponed is hoping to see her family at Christmas - as her daughter starts fundraising for private surgery.Terrified Kathryn Nicoll, 64, from Whitburn, West Lothian, woke up two weeks ago to find her sight gone after developing cataracts.Devoted daughter Laura Grant, 35, began fundraising for an operation which could cost £5,000 privately in hopes it could happen before Christmas - and nearly £1,000 has been raised.Bus driver Laura said: "If we can raise enough

cyclist on a country road avoided a prison sentence. Barry McConnell was allowed to serve a community sentence for causing the fatal road accident.

sex-trafficking gang which lured vulnerable women to Scotland was busted yesterday following police raids. In the 10-month Operation Fasthold, police identified and closed a dozen brothels run by the ruthless traffickers.

a four-nation approach to the festive season was confirmed on Tuesday night. She admitted some people thought the decision to allow people to form a "Christmas bubble" with three households over a five day period was too little, but others thought it was terrible.

Save the Children told the Record that too many families were already struggling before the pandemic and that months of lockdown had made things even worse.But the steep rise in child poverty rates began long before anyone had heard of coronavirus and can be traced to welfare system reforms brought in by the coalition government over the last 10 years.When David Cameron became prime minister in 2010 he promised a fresh way of doing politics - what we got instead was years of austerity which saw

coronavirus will still be sent into care homes despite assurances they would first need a negative test result, the Sunday Mail can reveal.Health Secretary Jeane Freeman is facing a furious backlash after admitting the shocking practice – believed to have contributed to deadly outbreaks during the first wave of the pandemic – is still allowed under her official guidelines.Government guidance, updated last month, states patients who test positive for Covid-19 could still be moved back into care