Community fights back against online fraud after spike in West Dunbartonshire incidents

Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletter.Emergency crews raced to a Renfrewshire back road this morning after reports a man had taken unwell.Traffic heading from Foxbar to Elderslie along Mackie's Mill Road was halted when a young man was spotted lying by the roadside near Brandy Burn around 8.10am this morning.Police and ambulance teams cared for the stricken young man before he was taken

Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.West Dunbartonshire’s Covid-19 rate has crept above the national average, with Dalreoch currently the worst hit area locally.Public Health Scotland data shows that more than three cases have been reported in every local neighbourhood apart from Whitecrook in Clydebank over the last seven days, with rates at their highest in Dalreoch (18 cases, 323.3 per 100,000), Bonhill (16 cases, 270.2 per 100,000),

Rod Stewart has hit back at critics who slammed him for singing the wrong lyrics to Flower of Scotland live on the BBC this morning. Many unimpressed Scots took to Twitter to hit out at the Maggie May singer for singing 'a wee bit heather and glen' instead of 'your wee bit hill and glen'.

online tool which allows people to check the status of their second appointment. Recent advice has recommended bringing forward the second dose from 12 to eight weeks.

Harrison Ford still has the swagger to carry off that famous fedora after 13 years. The Hollywood ­veteran was seen in the Borders filming for the long awaited Indiana Jones 5 film.

Harrison Ford delighted film buffs in the Borders by arriving on the set of the new Indiana Jones movie - moments before security forced crowds watching the action from a nearby vantage point to disperse. Around 60 people waited patiently trying to catch a glimpse of the Hollywood A-lister shoot scenes at Leaderfoot viaduct from a neighbouring road bridge over the River Tweed.

Court in Livingston at the end of a six day trial. His alleged victim, now aged 59, claimed in evidence that Linton had raped and sexually abused her for almost 18 months after she hired him to work on her farm.

East Lothian. Emergency services were called to the scene on the A198 near Tantallon Castle, North Berwick, at around 5pm on Wednesday.

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‘bomb’. The alarming discovery was made by a member of the public on the west end of Gullane beach in East Lothian.

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Staff at Dumbarton home were 'scared' for colleagues and residentsAt the height of the first wave of coronavirus last spring, staff at Dumbarton’s Crosslet House care home said they were “scared” for residents and colleagues.They also feared taking the virus home to their families, according to trade union Unison at the time.The trade union were calling on West Dunbartonshire Council to reveal how many residents had died at its care homes, claiming there was a lack of transparency.They told us

Edinburgh bar has angered locals who say it erected a pop-up beer tent in a communal garden at the back of a tenement without informing them. Locals woke up to find the white tent with picnic tables covering beds of plants, according to Edinburgh Live.

iOS - Android Robert Thorburn of Openreach told Lanarkshire Live: “Building a new broadband network across Scotland is a massive challenge and some parts of the country will inevitably require further public funding."But our plan means any future taxpayer subsidies can be limited to only the hardest-to-connect homes and businesses.“We’ll publish further location details and timescales on our website as surveys and planning are completed and the build progresses.“The impact of full fibre

Covid case numbers are being driven by ‘significant community transmission’ which is suspected to be linked to international travel, Humza Yousaf has said. The Health Secretary said that that the Scottish Government is working to understand the cause of the recent spike in infections in the south side of the city.