Creepy Scots driving instructor who preyed on teen girls during lessons dodges jail

Cops are hunting a masked man driving a car who approached young girls in two separate incidents in Grangemouth last week.

The world keeps churning but the relationship between JP Saxe and Julia Michaels appears to have come to an end.

A former restaurant supervisor who torched and destroyed his lover's home has been jailed for almost six years. Dean MacTaggart sparked the blaze forcing Amanda Richards, 43, and a young child to leap from a first floor window to safety.

A woman has been cleared of causing her young nephew to drown in the bath. Kayleigh Kerr was today found not guilty of the culpable homicide of 10-month-old Logan Cruickshanks.

Residents in a Scots apartment block say they are "living in fear" after multiple fires were started in their stairwell.

A car flipped onto its roof in a horror crash on a Scots road this morning.

A man has sadly died after getting into difficulty at a Scots beauty spot despite a rescue mission to save him. Police and paramedics were called to the scene at the beach in Tyninghame, East Linton, on Sunday, September 18, following reports of a person in the water.

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As mourners gathered at Balmoral Castle to say a final farewell to The Queen today, it was one young Scots girl's sweet tribute to Her Majesty that captured the hearts of the nation.

Dramatic images have emerged of firefighters responding to a flat blaze from which two people were rescued in the early hours of Sunday.

Police in Tayside are appealing for information after an 85-year-old man suffered serious injuries in a roundabout crash near Dundee.

A man and a woman have been evacuated from their upstairs flat in a South Ayrshire town after a fire broke out in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Looking out the window Muriel MacIntyre waves to the postman who carries a letter addressed to her. But it isn’t any ordinary letter, this envelope bears a royal “C” from the Queen Consort Camilla.

The woman behind a vodka firm said to be a front for an international money laundering ring married her mobster husband in a lavish bash at a Scots castle. Gangster’s moll Nicola Morrissey’s life of luxury homes, designer clothing and expensive cars came crashing down last week when she was thrown into a Spanish prison cell over alleged links to an organised crime gang.

Two of the men who accused a former youth charity chief of sexual ­misconduct say they have been failed after a ­watchdog took no action. Officials from the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) looked at allegations about Jordan Linden, the former chairman of the Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP).

An artist has been convicted of a horrific catalogue of sexual and physical abuse of children in the 1980s. Chris Maginn sexually abused a boy and a girl, tortured animals, and forced the girl to kill her pet gerbil with an axe. Maginn, a sculptor who also spent years working on community projects, began abusing the kids when he was aged 35.

A Scots radio DJ thought she was seeing things after driving past a house and spotting a Christmas tree last night.

A woman has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a nine-year-old boy.

A pupil at a Scots secondary school says girls have been 'stripped of their dignity' after being left unable to easily access sanitary products.

A killer who battered a former policeman to death with his own truncheon is back behind bars.