Family of Scots teen who died after heart surgery say helping thousands of other kids was 'only way to survive their loss'

toddler with rare kidney and heart conditions are facing years of agonising waiting ahead of transplant surgeries. Three-year-old Victoria Patterson, from Stranraer, has been battling two rare conditions since she was born in December 2017.

Princess Beatrice is encouraging kids with dyslexia to embrace it.

mum was left horrified after her neighbour's porn accidentally played through her child's night light while she was asleep. Dawn Lothian, from Edinburgh, had put her daughter to bed when she was startled by 'load moans' coming from her bedroom.

puppy farming has told how her daughter dropped to her knees in tears after their puppy died just hours after arriving at its new home. Glasgow mum Annemarie bought Pomeranian crossbreed, Angus, online as a present for her two young daughters.

Audi smash in the Highlands. The 16-year-old, named locally as Craig Melville, was a back seat passenger in the vehicle which ploughed into a wall on the B9176 near Alness on Saturday.

accident has been hailed as 'inspirational, beautiful and vibrant' by those who knew her. We told how police raced to the River Tweed, south of Rutherford, near Kelso in the Scottish Border.

A woman involved in a drug dealing operation narrowly avoided a prison sentence this week.Police officers stopped a BMW in East Kilbride when it almost crashed into their vehicle after failing to give way.Inside the car they found more than £1000 in banknotes and a bag containing cannabis wraps.Amy Adams, 26, was ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid community work when she appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court.She admitted being concerned in the supply of cannabis in Sydney Drive, East

puppy farmers. William and Maureen Mackenzie wanted to bring a dog into their home to love but have been devastated by the death of Jack Russell Sandy who died just days after they bought him.

Scottish Borders. Emergency services raced to the scene at 4.20pm yesterday to the aid of the 54-year-old working at Crichness Law in the Lammermuir Hills near Cranshaws.

New Zealand at the beginning of the pandemic.Jaye Tremble has only spent two months in lockdown since the coronavirus outbreak last year.The 22-year-old, from Irvine, spent 2020 going to four festivals, nightclubs every weekend, and travelled the country in a campervan before getting a job at a kiwi farm on the other side of the world.But despite her freedom Jaye admitted she is really missing her family and getting a chinese takeaway.Now she has lifted the lid on what her life has been like

sexual comments' at a young woman at a Scots bus stop.Cops say they are looking to trace the man after the 24-year-old woman had 'indecent' remarks shouted at her in Dundee.Around 7.20am on Tuesday, 9 March, the woman was walking along Balunie Avenue when a man who was at the bus stop, near to Baldovie Gardens, where he is said to have made the comments.The man is described as being white, around 5ft 10 of slim build and aged between 30 - 40 years old.He had a foreign accent, possibly eastern

paralysed from the waist down after falling backwards on a promenade wall is fundraising for a new "chariot".Rosie Sinclair has been a paraplegic after breaking her back when she fell off a wall at the popular Portobello Beach in Edinburgh in April last year.The 29-year-old University of Edinburgh student had been sitting on the wall and fell backwards when she twisted around to stand up.The sheer drop caused her to smash her back on cobblestones, causing injury to her spinal cord.Rosie had four

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

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

police found a secret drug preparation lab in an illegal loft conversion at his house. Derek Johnstone, 41, is thought to have supplied at least £32,000 worth of drugs to users from his semi-detached home, Falkirk Sheriff Court was told.

Coatbridge road.Stephen Brown, from Viewpark, spent two days in hospital fighting for his life after being knocked down on Tuesday.Mercy crews rushed the 39-year-old to Glasgow Royal Infirmary where he remained in critical condition before sadly dying yesterday.The horror incident happened at around 11.40am on Kirkshaws Road, at its junction with North Road.The 48-year-old driver of the lorry was uninjured.Now police are re-appealing for information and are urging anyone with dashcam footage to

Scots road yesterday.Emergency services were called to the A980 at Raemoir in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, after the driver of a Mitsubishi Canter truck left the road at around 12.20pm.

former soldier who threatened to kill his ex has been spared prison over his SIXTH domestic abuse conviction. Robert Campbell has ended up in the dock on a number of occasions since leaving the Army.

resigned as chairman over a social media post where he said the firm does not hire "blacks, gays or Catholics".Gordon Beattie, founder of Beattie Communications, published the "tone deaf" post on LinkedIn.Mr Beattie wrote: "At Beattie Communications we don't hire blacks, gays or Catholics."He added that the company only takes on "talented people" and does not care about their skin colour, sexual orientation or religion.Mr Beattie said he issued the post with the best of intent but accepted that