Benefits cheat Scots who pocketed 20k after lying about partner hit with six-month home curfew

Little Mix have confirmed they will complete their Scots 2021 tour dates as a trio after Jesy Nelson announced she has quit the band. In a heartfelt message posted yesterday evening the 29-year-old shocked the nation with her announcement.Jesy said that "with a heavy heart" she would be taking a step back, admitting being in the band was "taking a toll" on her mental health.

hospitalised in a horror gas blast at his home have set up a fundraiser to 'get him back on his feet'.

was set on fire on the driveway of their home, which sources said was the property of one of three men accused of Williamson’s murder.A 50-year-old woman, her 49-year-old husband and two teenage girls, aged 17 and 13, were inside the property in Ferniegair, near Hamilton, when the vehicle was set alight.The blaze spread to the front door of the house before emergency services, including police and two fire engines, reached the scene just after 1.35am on Saturday.Debris from the burnt-out vehicle

care home after watching her suffer through nine months of lockdown.Lucy Challoner, 22, who lost her dad to suicide in 2007, told how she can no longer bear the separation.Lucy’s mum Judy suffers from alcohol-related brain damage and her 98-year-old gran Mary Boag is also isolated in a care home.Judy started drinking after her husband died.Lucy, who lives with 19-year-old brother Jack in Edinburgh, said: “It’s been really tough not getting to see mum or gran for the best part of the year.“Time

knife point down a lane in a Scots town. The sickening robbery happened as the 19-year-old walked home around 7.30pm on Kennedy Drive onto Deedes Street, Airdrie.

stole their own grandparents’ life savings have hit out after they escaped jail - and dodged an order to pay back the money.Heartless Clair and Louise Smith, 25, posed as doting carers while swiping £8,000 from the bank account of their grandparents in Irvine, Ayrshire.The twins pleaded guilty to clearing out the cash while running errands for vulnerable Crawford Pirrie, 73, and wife Marlene, 75.Yesterday the twins were sentenced to a three-month tagging order - branded a “slap in the face” by

coronavirus outbreak infected dozens of people at a Scots care home. Last week 72 residents and staff at Inchmarlo House, near Banchory, Aberdeenshire tested positive for the virus.

jury how an ex-boyfriend drowned her pet parakeet in the kitchen sink. The woman, who can’t be identified, said she took her children to her mum's after she caught Paul Hill having sex with another woman in her bed.

Last night, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge embarked on their three-day Royal Train Tour across the United Kingdom. During the trip, Kate Middleton and Prince William will visit locations in England, Scotland, and Wales to thank essential workers for their incredible efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.On Monday morning, the royal train arrived into Edinburgh Waverley station, where the couple will meet frontline medical staff to thank them for working throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

Covid-19 cluster was identified. Health chiefs confirmed that half a dozen people who are linked to the outbreak at Craigie House Care Home in Crossgates have now lost their lives.

confirmed payment date changes for some people over the festive period. The changes will affect Scottish claimants due to receive Universal Credit, State Pension, Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and other DWP-delivered benefits on December 25th and 28th and January 1st and 4th.

cancer. Little Isla McPhee was a fit and healthy two-year-old before she started appearing 'under the weather' and 'really tired' at the beginning of February 2018.

base were scrambled to follow Russian military planes after they were found over the North Sea. The Typhoons from RAF Lossiemouth, in Moray, left the tarmac at 8am this morning after the submarine hunting planes were discovered.

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

oronavirus outbreak has been identified at a Scots extra care housing development in Peebles after 28 people caught the killer bug.  A total of 16 residents and 12 staff have now tested positive for Covid-19 at Dovecot Court.

charity which has witnessed first-hand the impact Covid-19 has had on child poverty in Scotland today calls on political leaders to put more money in struggling families’ pockets.Save the Children has seen parents on the breadline as the effects of the pandemic ravage finances and leave kids without basic provisions.The charity has been delivering emergency grants to low-income families in seven local authorities in Scotland since April.