Cruel Scots foster mother who beat children in her care with wooden spoons avoids jail

Scots motorway. Emergency services raced to the scene on the M77 on Saturday afternoon following reports of a one-vehicle crash.Glasgow Live reported that traffic was brought to standstill as a section of the road was shut down by police.

pervert who thought he asked an underage girl to send him her underwear and love letters is to be supervised for three years.Stewart Henderson sent naked selfies to what he believed was a 14-year-old named Daniella online.However the Facebook profile was fake and controlled by a vigilante group based in England who then filmed the 53-year-old and exposed him on the social media site.The group confronted Henderson at his home in Barrhead, East Renfrewshire.Henderson told the adult decoy that he

Indiana Jones 5 star and Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge bought hundreds of pounds worth of cheese when she was filming in Glasgow. Phoebe, who will star in the film alongside Harrison Ford and Narco's Boyd Holbrook, was in Glasgow for two weeks.

brutally knifed Peter McElroy during the attack in Airdrie, Lanarkshire on April 12 last year. A passing taxi driver rushed to help the 45 year-old victim, but he tragically never survived.

X Factor is no more after Simon Cowell has called an end to the show - but we still have our musical memories - and here are some of the Scots who remain unforgettable. Whitburn's Leon Jackson won the show in 2007 as a 19-year-old lad and had a hit Christmas single with his song When You Believe.

dogs stolen from a Scots farm have now been traced at two separate locations in England. The beloved pets were stolen from a farm in Amulree near Dunkeld in broad daylight on Thursday July 15 between 2 - 2.45pm.

jail. John Gibb, 80, offered one sickened 16-year-old £10 before asking if he wanted to have sex with him.

SNP 's Public Health minister Maree Todd during her visit to the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh earlier today. The fund will offer cash to cover travel, food and overnight accommodation expenses for the parents and siblings of young people in hospital.

crash on a Scots motorway. The incident occurred on the M74 northbound between junctions 11 and 10, near Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire on Saturday July 24.

Get the latest entertainment news sent straight to your inbox with our weekly Showbiz newsletterIndiana Jones 5 and Narcos actor Boyd Holbrook said he has 'avoided' haggis but wants to return to Scotland as he and his cast members wrapped up their filming of the Hollywood movie in Glasgow.Boyd, who has been pictured on set in the film alongside Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Shaunette Renee Wilson and a Harrison Ford body double, was asked how he enjoyed Glasgow by some fans outside of his

Nicola Sturgeon ’s flagship social justice policy is the Scottish Child Payment, which gives families from low income households £10 a week.

harm by a women’s aid charity has launched a campaign for stronger laws to protect women who have lost unborn children as a result of domestic abuse. Nicola Murray, 43, says courts should take into greater account the loss of a baby when sentencing those who abuse their partner.

Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” starring Frances McDormand and Denzel Washington will have its world premiere on opening night of the New York Film Festival, organizers said Thursday. The 59th edition of the festival kicks off Sept.

West Lothian street. The 40-year-old female owner of the XL American Bulldog-type animal has also been reported to the Procurator Fiscal in connection with the incident.

raping a girl on a woodland walk following an 18-year campaign of sex offending against children. Edward Swan, 75, attacked the girl at Buckland Woods, at Hawick, in the Scottish Borders, and seized her and removed her lower clothing before pushing her to the ground and raping her.

sex criminals.Julie Spence and Carol Burns have waived their right to anonymity to highlight the lenient jail terms that attackers are receiving in Scotland. The pair live on opposite sides of the country but have found strength in each other after their traumatic ordeals.Fife woman Julie was raped in her home by a monster out on bail while her children slept downstairs and Carol was abused by a perverted music teacher at Eastwood High in Newton Mearns.

blade-like weapons that he strapped to his hands. Safe cracker Ovidiu Dinu, 32, serving a two-year-and-eight-month term at HMP Grampian, had "struggled to adjust" to life behind bars, a court heard.

The 16-year-old, who cannot be named due to her age, was placed on a one-year supervision order and ordered to pay £250 compensation to her victim. She had previously admitted stamping on her victim's head outside a Fife secondary school on May 17.

Covid is at its highest level yet, according to new figures. That’s prompted accusations that Health Secretary Humza Yousaf has taken his eye “off the ball” over how the health crisis is affecting young people.