Emergency services race to Scots beauty spot after climber plunges 50ft off cliff

Police Scotland officer is being probed by bosses after branding lockdown rules “a joke” and demanding the public be allowed to “go back to normal” – despite soaring Covid-19 cases.Chelsea Renton, who is based at Cathcart Police Office in Glasgow, criticised lockdown laws she is paid to enforce and shared the outburst on her Instagram page.In a bid to downplay the effect of the virus, which has already killed 2510 Scots, she told her followers that “the recovery rate of Covid-19 far outweighs

lockdown in Scotland. Images show aisles that would normally contain packets of toilet rolls and kitchen rolls completely stripped bare in supermarkets up and down the country.

supermarkets to stockpile on a number of items in recent days.Toilet roll, pasta and flour were among the items to be low in stock during the first peak of the coronavirus pandemic during March, April and May.The latest round of stockpiling comes after the Scottish Government announced a raft of new restrictions designed to tackle a surge in new coronavirus cases across the country.Aldi CEO Giles Hurley has issued a plea to customers and moved to reassure shoppers over stock level fears.He

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university has shown vile photos of her mould ridden £95-per-week digs.The University of Stirling student, who wishes to remain anonymous, said her student accommodation in Fraser of Allender House was in dire state when she moved in last week.The 21-year-old woman was horrified to discover her ceiling and cupboards in the flat were covered with mould.The first-year student was so shocked that she immediately moved out of the property and is now being forced to pay £130 per week for new

car crash caused by a show-off driver high on drink and drugs have described their "torment". Jack Frame's parents first thought the tragedy in Lanarkshire in February last year was an accident but said finding out that the driver acted illegally "just turned everything upside down".

Douglas Ross plans to spend £550million on 3,000 more teachers for Scotland if his party gains power at the next Holyrood election.

RAF fighter jets intercepted Russian planes near the coast of Scotland. The Typhoons were launched from Leuchars Station in Fife after two Russian planes were spotted flying in UK airspace yesterday.

NHS Scotland will remain on an ‘emergency footing’ until at least the end of March next year. Health secretary Jeane Freeman explained that the NHS had adopted this status when coronavirus hit the country in March.

Clydebank. Ross Gray was walking his nine-year-old rescue dog, Cathy when she slit her paw on smashed glass near a primary school in the Cochno area, at 5pm on Wednesday night.

emergency helipad in her remote Highland village to help save other lives.Heather Teale is raising funds for the project and plans have now been lodged with Highland Council.Her beloved daughter Bethany Walker died of sepsis in January 2018.She was rushed by air ambulance to Raigmore Hospital, Inverness.The helicopter was able to land in a pub car park, empty at the time, but would have struggled otherwise to find a place to land.Applecross is at least a two-hour drive from the hospital and is

Motherwell were evacuated over reports of fumes coming from a house sparked an emergency response. Police and fire crews raced to a property in Merry Street at around 10.53pm on Tuesday September 9 after reports of 'a smell of gas'.

EastEnders fans made an unusual discovery at a Scottish hotspot this week of a 'memorial plaque' to remember a soap character who was murdered 16 years ago.Soap fans will remember the iconic moment Janine Butcher pushed her husband Barry Evans over a cliff in a Hogmanay special back in 2004 and EastEnders fans will never forgot the scene which went down in soap history.Last night, a Scots resident took to Facebook group 'Scotland by the Roadside' to share her discovery of a memorial plaque to

Fort William to hunt for a missing Springer Spaniel who was washed away in a river.  The adorable pooch had been enjoying a swim on Sunday, September 6, when the strong current dragged him downstream and over Steall Waterfall.

judge.The Scot was caged for 12 years last month for mouthing off towards Randall Basinger in Facebook rants posted last year.But the former US Marine, originally from Edinburgh, has written to the court contesting the “wrongful, misguided and erroneous” verdict. In a penciled note, Richey added: “My trial was biased, unfair and rigged from the onset.

cars have swarmed on a Scots beauty spot in scenes that have been branded 'madness' by locals. Vehicles have been pictured overflowing the car park at the Muir of Dinnet National Nature Reserve in Aberdeenshire today.

Douglas Ross says he has not spoken to or ever met Dominic Cummings since he resigned as a minister over the lockdown breaches by the Prime Minister's senior adviser. The new leader of the Scottish Conservatives resigned from the Scotland Office in May in protest at Dominic Cummings’ trip to Barnard Castle in north-east England during the lockdown.

retail park amid reports of a break-in. A big police presence has been seen outside the Poundstretcher store at the Saltire Retail Park in Glenrothes, Fife this morning.