Boots apologise after 'inappropriate' advert urges Scots to treat mums to sex toys for Mother's Day

cancer just four months after giving birth to her baby girl.

baby who was born in lockdown has become obsessed with TV show The Chase after watching it every day for a year. Despite not yet being able to speak, nine-month-old Nalah Watson demands to watch the popular quiz show every single day.Mum Jade, 33, from Castle Douglas says Nalah concentrates hard while watching and even laughs at host Bradley Walsh's jokes.

puppy farmers. William and Maureen Mackenzie wanted to bring a dog into their home to love but have been devastated by the death of Jack Russell Sandy who died just days after they bought him.

holidays abroad could be ‘at risk’ this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, a leading bank has warned. Morgan Stanley has said that there are reasons to be concerned about international trips amid a rising number of cases and a slow vaccine rollout across Europe.Emerging and more transmissible strains of the virus could also result in lockdown measures being imposed for longer on the continent.

Patrick Harvie warned time was running out to tackle the global climate emergency and that bold environmental policies were now required.The Greens returned six MSPs via the list vote at the last Scottish Parliament election in 2016 and members are hoping to hit double figures this time around.But the pro-independence party has faced repeated criticism from Unionists for being too supportive of the SNP Government.The Greens refused to back other opposition parties last week when Deputy First

Police in Fort William said that a 29-year-old male was arrested and charged with vandalism, wilful fireraising and a break-in at Lochaber High School in the Camaghael area in the morning of March 15.The incidents happened at around between 3am and 7am on Kilmallie Road and the school.The man is due to appear at Inverness Sheriff Court on March 16.

coronavirus vaccine causes blood clots, the UK’s medicines' regulator has said. The MHRA said that it is ‘closely reviewing reports’ after Ireland moved to temporarily suspend the rollout of the jab.

Ruth Davidson is urging Scots to vote Tory to deny SNP a majority for Indyref2.The Scottish Tories are planning to deny the SNP a majority at Holyrood to make sure Scotland doesn't leave the UK.Ms Davidson also hit out at the "increasing stench of sleaze and scandal" she claimed was coming from Nicola Sturgeon's party.She insisted that the SNP winning an overall majority's in May's Scottish Parliament election was no longer the "'nailed-on' near-certainty" that polls had once predicted.But to

puppy farmers who dropped her off lifeless on the doorstep of a Scots family. Little Skye was advertised for sale in Glasgow on Gumtree for £1000 and was bought by a family in Rutherglen.Mum Carolann Thomas, said the seller dropped the puppy off at their house on February 27 and everything seemed fine until they took Skye inside.She noticed immediately that the puppy was extremely underweight and could barely walk. Carolann said her paws and tail were covered in dog poo and urine burns.She told

social media and branded it as "absolutely shocking" after she made the discovery in Larkhall on Thursday.In the picture, the needle can be seen lying on the pavement with the tip of the syringe uncovered.

crash on a major Scots road that put four youths in hospital.Two 14-year-old girls were seriously injured in the smash that followed a police pursuit, while two boys in the car - aged 14 and 16 - were also treated for minor injuries .They were said to be travelling in the Vauxhall Corsa which crashed on the A90 near St Madoes, Perthshire, after allegedly failing to stop for police on February 20.The four were rushed to Ninewells hospital in Dundee for treatment after the crash that caused chaos

died in his arms just over six hours after he bought it. And heartbroken Richard Gray believes he and the tragic Border Collie called Bear were the victims of callous puppy farmers.

jailed for three years and four months.William Trainor, 29, burst into his victim’s home in Gretna in the early hours of March 15, 2019.Trainor, also of Gretna, was convicted of assaulting the woman with intent to rape her in January 2020.He was also convicted of possessing a handgun and sentence had been deferred to the High Court in Edinburgh for the court to obtain reports about his character.On Wednesday, judge Alison Stirling told Trainor that the offence was so serious there was no

Glasgow, was left devastated after son Kyle, 24, passed away on Tuesday February 23.The tragic loss came the day before he was to carry older brother Jim’s coffin following his short battle with cancer.Single dad Tam had been a sole carer to Kyle, who had cerebral palsy, for the last ten years since the death of his wife Marie in 2011.Celtic-fan Kyle passed away “peacefully” from kidney problems and complications from his condition in hospital with his dad at his side.“It was very, very quick,”

is giving evidence today to a Holyrood committee investigating how the Scottish Government managed to botch its own internal complaints process - a mistake which ended up costing the taxpayer more than £500,000.

hospital after taking unwell on a Scots estate.The man fell ill on Letham Grange estate, near Arbroath in Angus on Wednesday morning.The alarm was raised just before 10am.Scottish Ambulance Service and Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance crews attended to the man, believed to be in his fifties.He was soon airlifted to Ninewells Hospital Dundee for treatment.His current condition is yet to be confirmed.A Scottish Ambulance Service spokesperson told the Record: “We received a call today at 9.57am to

own internal complaints process - a mistake which ended up costing the taxpayer more than £500,000.Two women had raised complaints against Salmond in 2018 dating to his time in the top job in Scottish politics and the government launched a probe.Salmond denied the allegations and insisted the complaints process was biased against him - a claim vindicated in the civil courts in January 2019.However, at the Inquiry today, Sturgeon accused her predecessor of "deeply inappropriate behaviour".She

Aberdeen.Emergency services raced to the scene on Pitmedden Road at around 4pm on Monday, March 1.Thick plumes of black smoke have filled the sky and can be seen from miles around, local reports claim.Did you know you can keep up to date with the latest news by signing up to our daily newsletter?We send a morning and lunchtime newsletter covering the latest headlines every day.We also send coronavirus updates at 5pm on weekdays, and a round up of the week's must-read stories on Sunday

Monaco-based Gordon Beattie insisted he did not mean any offence and was only trying to underline his firm’s industry-leading diversity credentials.But the Beattie Media chairman was forced to take down his post on social media platform Linkedin and apologised to those who had been upset.The row began last Friday, when Beattie wrote online: “At Beattie Communications, we don’t hire blacks, gays or Catholics.“We sign talented people and we don’t care about the colour of their skin, sexual

Ewan McGregor wants Scots heroin users to try a drug-free treatment to break the cycle of addiction.The actor, who played Mark Renton in Trainspotting, urged the Scottish Government to investigate neuro electric therapy after narrating a documentary charting successful trials in the US.NET was developed in the 70s by Hong Kong-based Scots surgeon Meg Patterson, whose previous patients included rock stars Eric Clapton, Keith Moon and Boy George.It uses tiny pulses of electrical currents to