Family of Scots grandad killed by drunk stock car racer slam 'unjust' sentence

A motorist has been reported for careless driving after a car flipped onto its roof on a busy road in Edinburgh.

A catalogue of failures led to the death of Jade McGrath, 19, when she was admitted to New Craigs Hospital in Inverness, which has now also formally apologised to her mother. Jade, who had threatened to take her own life, walked out of the hospital unchallenged.

A student has told of her shock after being diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer after mistaking the symptoms for anaemia. Laila Hudson, from Glasgow, first realised something was wrong when she began having stomach and bowel problems in the summer of 2017.

A car has been reduced to a burnt out shell after it burst into flames on a residential Scots street.

An East Lothian mum has told how her kids were left screaming after seeing the family dog hit by a car and dragged up the street. Denise Steele told how two-year-old Bonnie bolted out of the garden of their Wallyford home and into the path of a red Mini on Tuesday, April 4.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Liz Tigelaar and Stacey Silverman’s production company, Best Day Ever, has hired ABC Signature’s Abby Chambers, Variety has learned exclusively. Chambers will now serve as vice president of television and production at Best Day Ever. She most recently worked as director of current programming at ABC Signature, where Best Day Ever is set up under an overall deal. “Best Day Ever is beyond thrilled to welcome Abby to the Best Day Ever team,” Tigelaar and Silverman said in a joint statement. “The truth is, after being our studio partner on ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ and ‘Under the Bridge,’ we’d already come to think of her as our own. Her goals align perfectly with ours —to tell stories that feel vital, to center new voices, and to raise up future showrunners—and we feel lucky to have her passion and brilliance with us every day (and who knows, she may even steer us onto projects with non three-word-titles, too).”

Naman Ramachandran SISTER, the media group co-founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Jane Featherstone and Stacey Snider, has unveiled a creative partnership with and taken a significant stake in new TV and tech entertainment company Yes Yes Media. Yes Yes, an unscripted entertainment venture, is founded by broadcaster and format developer Richard Bacon, who has presented “The Big Breakfast” and “Top of the Pops” and created formats “The Hustler,” hosted by Craig Ferguson (ABC), “This Is My House” (BBC1) and “I Literally Just Told You,” hosted by Jimmy Carr (Channel 4). The deal allows Yes Yes to leverage access to the SISTER’s global network of creative companies and investments spanning television and film, podcasting, publishing and live events.

A man will appear in court after he allegedly got behind the wheel while more than seven times the legal drink drive limit, police have said.

A man who pled guilty to shooting a protected bird of prey on a country estate has been fined.

A woman has been left burned by hooded teenagers who launched a hot drink in her face during a doorstep attack.

A brave Scots mum says she feels completely “helpless” after three generations of her family have been ‘decimated’ by deadly brain tumours. Claire Cordiner tragically lost her mum Margaret O’Kane, 66, in October 2008 after she was diagnosed with a glioblastoma (GBM).

A man has tragically died after being struck by a car on a busy Aberdeen road today.

Police are hunting the driver of a car which flipped into a field in Fife after a road smash.

A Scots family who went to see Annie at the Edinburgh Playhouse have said that stewards made them "feel like children" after telling them off for miming during the performance.

A Scots couple have been left shaken after a gang of masked prowlers tried to break into their home while they slept.

A frantic police search has been launched for a missing Aberfoyle man who vanished last night.

A stock car racer who killed a Royal Navy veteran after drinking has been jailed for six years.

The deaths of two pensioners who were killed by a mentally ill neighbour are to be probed on the orders of Scotland's top law officer.

The families of murdered Scots have told how a lifeline service supported them through their darkest days.

The family of a Scots teenager who died of a suspected accidental overdose have issued an emotional warning about the dangers of street drugs.