Firebombing of nightclub boss' home latest in string attacks on Scots businessmen

club in Wick, Caithness, around 2.00am on Sunday August 15. He was rushed to hospital for treatment to a serious wound above his eye.Police Scotland are now appealing for any members of the public who witnessed the assault to get in touch with them.

family has been left heartbroken over the death of their husband and father who died after collapsing suddenly at their Scots home. Zuheir Elgalal, 46, did not experience any unusual symptoms before his untimely death.On Thursday August 12, he told his wife, Wigdan, that he began to feel breathless and had an increasing pain in his chest.He called an ambulance for himself but was unable to speak so passed the phone over to Wigdan to speak to the operator instead.

teenage thug who branded his grandmother "a w****" and pulled out a knife at her home in a drunken rampage has been jailed. James Cumming also phoned police and falsely reported a murder - then laughed at the officers who raced to the scene.

raced to a Scots street this evening. A huge police response, including at least four vehicles and two vans, were filmed on Minto Crescent, in the Macedonia area of Glenrothes, Fife this evening.

Scots racing pigeon took a wrong turn and walked into a pub in England some 148 miles from home. The Dumfries-bound bird turned up at The Black Swan Inn, in York on Friday after it was blown-off course by strong winds.

puppy was 'stolen' from its owner's bedroom while she was out shopping at Asda. Hayley Jempson claims her nine-week-old pup, Cooper, was snatched from his cage at her home in Edinburgh.

Police were called to Deanshaugh Terrace in Elgin amid reports of the burglary at a property between 9.30am and 11am on Monday August 23.

attacks are closely linked to the same venue. Chris Lessani’s home was gutted by fire after multi-millionaire Brendan Hegarty’s house was damaged in a blaze which was started deliberately.

NHS crisis. And exactly a week later 67-year-old Helena Walker was kept waiting eight hours for an ambulance before spending another eight hours on a trolley in a hospital corridor after a stroke.

WW1.The message is among a wealth of handwritten treasures which will be on display at the newly reopened Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Museum at Stirling Castle.Private Vincent Collins, 18, of the 8 th (Argyllshire) Battalion wrote the last letter home to his parents in 1915, the night before his unit moved into the trenches.Tragically, Vincent was wounded on 4 October that year and died from his injuries.The note is in an incredibly fragile condition so to bring it to life the team has

missing Midlothian man who has vanished from home. Police are searching for Steven Young, 50, who hasn't been seen since he left his home on Peacock Avenue, Bonnyrigg, at around 5pm on Monday, August 16.

wedding party. Stephen and Sherree Sutherland were heartbroken after hundreds of pounds went missing from a handbag at the bash in their Bonhill home.

missing for three months has said 'all she wants' is her young son home and urged people to continue searching. Jamie Cannon, from Saltcoats, Ayrshire, was last seen on Thursday, May 20, on Kerr Avenue before being spotted at Auchenharvie Golf Course later that same day.

stroke victim has been left feeling like "a prisoner in his own home" after being stuck in a top floor flat. Graeme Baxter's life was turned upside down when he suffered a devastating total anterior circulation infarct (TACI) on June 17 last year.TACI is a type of cerebral infarction affecting the entire anterior circulation supplying one side of the brain, and the 56-year-old has been left completely paralysed down the left side of his body since falling ill.

murder him. Mark Craig was later spotted following his ex-partner's car after telling her he did not approve of the man she was in a new relationship with.

blazing home has been hailed as a hero. Austin Hemsley - who works at GPG garage in Montrose - was out on a routine job to jump-start a van when he all of a sudden found himself fighting his way through thick smoke and flames.

dance floors last night after remaining empty for the whole of the pandemic. On Monday, nightclubs opened their doors at the stroke of midnight on 'Freedom Day' as excited revellers returned to drinking and dancing.

con artists who placed huge outside catering orders – and paid with fraudulent credit cards. Khadka Khadka thought he’d been thrown a lifeline after Covid threatened his restaurant - The Gurkha's, in Crieff, Perthshire.

Glasgow, went on trial for 63 charges of dishonesty and trading standards offences in 2018 but walked free after a Crown Office bungle saw the case fall apart.

Glasgow street was targeted in a suspected firebombing attack. Fire crews were called after the Sanctuary nightclub owner's house on Duthie Park Place in Knightswood went on fire around 1am on Friday, August 6.