Driver in miracle escape after tree collapses onto van in Scots town

nurse has been suspended after after a litany of failings including wrongly performing a bladder scan, telling a GP a patient had thrush and not properly helping a patient to the toilet. The Nursery and Midwifery council found dozens of allegations proven against Fife man William Victory McAuley during a hearing this month.

boy with disabilities broke his nose at a Scots school and his mum claims he was 'neglected'. Kirsty Clapperton was left furious when her son, who has autism and uses a wheelchair, was in a serious accident at Braidburn School in Edinburgh.

lorry fire and rescued a fellow motorist by pulling him out of the passenger window. Lee Metcalf has been hailed as a "true hero" after he saved a lorry driver on Monday afternoon on the M74 at junction 12, near Abington.

Aberdeenshire. The Care Inspectorate, which regulates and inspects nurseries, said it would "monitor the service" after the incident on 10 March.

smash on a Scots street saw a car flip onto its roof this afternoon. The single vehicle collision took place at around 3pm in Kirkcaldy.

charged with causing the death of a young pedestrian by running her over while speeding on a Scots road. Steven Clifford Cohen, 58, is accused of careless driving - resulting in him killing Astrid Yeates, 21.

Glasgow on Tuesday morning. Cops are appealing for information following the incident around 10.25am in the Newlands Road area.

puppy farmers who have brought misery to hundreds of Scots. The pair, understood to have based themselves in different rental flats to escape detection, are accused of taking huge sums from families for gravely ill puppies.

high purity cocaine worth more than £3million is set to be jailed. Robert Stewart was seen stowing away two suitcases containing 143lb of the class A drug in the cab of his vehicle in London before driving north to Scotland.Police tracked his journey and recovered the cocaine when they stopped his lorry in May last year after he pulled into Hamilton Services in Lanarkshire.

Get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our Criminal Record newsletter.A long-term inmate who legged it from a Carse of Gowrie open prison tried to pass himself off as a dog walker who had lost his pet when he was seen skulking in bushes near the jail.But John McAuley’s “moment of madness” earned him another 10 months behind bars when he appeared on indictment at Perth Sheriff Court.The court was told that the 34-year-old had been a model prisoner at Castle

Glasgow closed after a horror smash between two cars.Emergency services were called to the scene of the two-car crash, which took place near junction 16 around 1.05pm on Saturday Mach 13.One person involved was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary.Traffic Scotland tweeted that Lanes 2 and 3 closed on the M8 westbound due to the collision.Officers have since confirmed all lanes have been since been re-opened.A spokesperson for Police Scotland said: "We received a report of a two-car crash on the M8

Police have confirmed that an unexploded bomb discovered in a garden in a Scots town has been safely removed from the area.Several homes in the Victoria Avenue area of Milnathort, near Kinross, had to be evacuated after the alarm was raised on Friday afternoon (March 12) and emergency services raced to the scene. A large cordon was put in place while a specialist bomb squad was brought in to examine the device and safely remove it overnight.

driver is facing jail over a £50,000 crash after he drove so dangerously his car flipped through the air and smashed into a shop.Imran Akmal, 32, left his brother with a fractured spine after driving at double the 30-miles-per-hour speed limit and ploughing into Ferry Nice Foods.The street where the crash happened - Ferry Road, Renfrew, near Glasgow - had to be closed while officers investigated the smash.And the shop itself had to be closed for 33 days due to damage to the building.Paisley

car crash on a Scots road.The two car smash took place on the A941 just south of Rothes this afternoon.Emergency services raced to the scene after a Blue Peugeot 208 and a Black Peugeot 2008 collided.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

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

Scots road this afternoon.Emergency services have been called to the scene after the vehicle turned on the B915 in Dunfermline, Fife.The accident happened when the car came round a bend on the road, just after the M90 exit at Commerce Park at around 11.50am. The road is currently blocked and drivers are being advised to avoid the area.

hit by a van while crossing a Scots road.The 19-year-old was raced to hospital after the Renault Master vehicle hit her as she crossed Seafield Road in Ayr at around 4.10pm on Friday.Cops were called to the scene near the street's junction with with Racecourse Road.She was taken by ambulance to University Hospital in Ayr and then later transferred to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.Hospital staff describe her condition as critical and say she is being treated for a head

cancer, is taking on an epic challenge to raise money for their loved ones' end of life care.Stephen Logan aims to run the West Highland Way in one 24 hour stint for Marie Curie Hospice in Glasgow.The 48-year-old will set off at midnight on June 20 with hopes to complete the gruelling 96-mile route by midnight on June 21.Stephen has often provided a listening ear to patients' relatives, as he's ferried them to and from the New Stobhill Hospital in his cab over the years.

speeding down a dual carriage way in and out of traffic at 50mph.A Scots couple were left stunned when the man overtook them before speeding off in front of other cars.James Irvine Pryce took a video from the passenger seat of his car on the Kingsway dual carriageway in Dundee on Saturday, March 6.The footage shows the e-scooter driver swerving in and out between cars and speeding at 50mph.James told the Record: “It was absolutely crazy.“My wife was driving and pointed out from behind, I

Get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our Criminal Record newsletter.A Deliveroo driver who was robbed and attacked in the grounds of a nursery was rescued by staff.Father-to-be Jason Haughie, 25, pounced on terrified Mohammed Mutaha and warned him: “Give me everything you have”, forcing him to run away.Paisley Sheriff Court heard Haughie chased Mr Mutaha before cornering him outside a childcare centre, where he kneed him in the face and stole his £400