Cash-strapped Police Scotland needs £178m to fix crumbling stations, MSPs told

Edinburgh beach. Police are believed to have made the grim discovery this morning at Silverknowes Beach.

Police have issued an urgent search for a missing teenage boy. Andrew Baird, 16, vanished from the Forfar area at around 4.30pm yesterday evening.

Cops have locked down a busy Grangemouth street while they deal with a “serious incident”. Emergency services raced to the town's Abbott’s Road, just after 8am on Friday, October 2.

police and firefighters two days before it was torched, we can reveal.The ground floor flat in Kincaid Court, Greenock, went up in flames on Monday night – the fifth fire in two weeks over the seaside town’s drug trade.Neighbours claim a safety visit was carried out by Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service in the days leading up the firebombing.

knifeman who held a blade to his throat during a four-hour standoff with police at a mainline rail station - in which nearly 100 trains had to be cancelled, delayed, or diverted - has dodged jail. Connor Waugh, 22, caused disruption as far south as London as a result of what was described as "a siege situation" at the station in Falkirk, Stirlingshire.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Police Scotland is appealing for witnesses after a man was assaulted in Wishaw.Around 10pm, on Sunday, September 27, a 20-year-old man was standing outside Ross’s Bar in Stewarton Street when he was assaulted by another man with a bottle.Officers are keen to trace a man described as being in his early 30s, with short dark hair and was wearing light coloured clothing.Detective Constable Lindsey McIntyre, from

Trafalgar Square in London. An army of Metropolitan Police officers moved in on demonstrators defying coronavirus laws against mass gatherings as they set up a protest camp beside Nelson’s column.

cocaine bragged about his champagne lifestyle after jumping bail and fleeing Scotland.Security consultant ­Christopher Lawson posted photos of his jet-setting around the world as he spent three years on the run from justice.Lawson, who was shot in the line of duty in Afghanistan, regularly updated his social media with pictures from countries including Tanzania, Cambodia, the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates.But he was arrested at an airport when he returned to the UK from Dubai in June

Omar Sadiq was murdered during a “targeted attack” in the city’s southside. The 32-year-old was found in a pool of blood by officers after being knifed on Boydstone Road in the Pollok area at around 1.25pm on Tuesday.

Perthshire town could be made to use a council office as Police Scotland looks to slash costs.

Kirkcaldy after being arrested yesterday. Officers from Police Scotland have launched an investigation after a 36-year-old male passes away earlier today.

Police are searching for a missing Scots teenager who vanished earlier this morning. Rachel Allan, 13, was last seen at around 12.30am today at her home in Paisley.

M8 in Glasgow city centre has been closed due to an ongoing police incident. Emergency services have raced to the scene on the eastbound carriageway between J19 and J18.

estimates for the first half of 2019.We twice splashed the revelations on the front page of our paper, reflecting how the crisis was plainly out of control.When the Record pointed this out to the force, they stuck to their guns and refused to give out the data, claiming the previous releases were a “mistake”.The refusal comes despite it being widely expected that the numbers for 2019, which are running five months late, will be even worse than 2018.Those were a new record and the worst recorded

care homes.Professor Jason Leitch was speaking on a live radio interview today about the rising number of positive tests for coronavirus north of the border and the potential impact on the social care sector.Appearing on BBC Good Morning Scotland, the national clinical director was asked if he was concerned by the situation in Scotland's care homes."Concerned in the sense I want to protect them as much as I can from this virus," he said."We've learned both in Scotland and around the world, the

NHS Fife has confirmed seven people linked to the Police Scotland training college at Tulliallan have tested positive for Covid-19. The number of confirmed cases includes household contacts of people associated with the Alloa facility.

hereEarlier today, the First Minister uged Scots to download a new 'Protect Scotland' contact tracing app - the latest tool in the fight to stop the spread of coronavirus.The symptoms of coronavirus are:But these symptoms do not necessarily mean you have the illness.The symptoms are similar to other illnesses that are much more common, such as cold and flu.always wash your hands when you get home or into workuse hand sanitiser gel if soap and water are not availablecover your mouth and nose with

sex trafficking gang luring vulnerable women to Scotland has been busted in a series of raids across Europe.Guns, knives, luxury cars and cash were seized by officers and 24 traffickers were arrested in raids in Scotland, England and Romania yesterday.Trafficking victims who had been snared by the violent gang were also rescued in the UK and Romania.The operation spearheaded by Police Scotland saw four properties in Glasgow and Aberdeen targeted as part of a series of co-ordinated dawn raids.Ten

Steve Clarke 's side are in Olomouc on Nations League duty to face a Czech Republic side served a grim reminder of the fragility of the game's current existence.The entire squad involved in Friday's win over Slovenia have been placed into Covid-19 quarantine and an entirely new contingent has been hastily assembled in its place.Only defender Roman Hubnik and striker Stanislav Tecl have caps to their name, but have spent four and two years out of the picture, respectively.It creates a hugely

staff survey that has not been carried out for five years. The survey was last done in 2015.