Giant hogweed leaves Scots schoolgirl with painful blister burns after brushing against toxic plant

Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.Seagulls nesting on top of homes are terrorising residents on a number of Perth streets.And one person living in North Muirton has told the Perthshire Advertiser she is scared to leave her house because of the frightening flyers.The birds were previously a problem at the Arran Road Business Park.But falcons were brought in to move them on and the gallus gulls have made new homes in the residential area

Aberdeen, spotted the yellow glow while out for a walk in Kincorth.

Poland say they feel he was ‘let down by those he trusted’. Corporal Ryan Lovatt had been on a boozy night out with colleagues in Warsaw when he was pepper-sprayed by a bouncer in August 2019.

motor neurone disease.In January, Natalie Rushton was looking forward to her 21st birthday when she was diagnosed.MND is a rapidly progressing terminal illness, which stops signals from the brain reaching the muscles.

Scots soldier who died after falling from the seventh floor of a hotel in Poland are desperately seeking answers about his death. Corporal Ryan Lovatt was deployed to participate in diplomatic services with the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards as part of Operation Cabrit when he died in August 2019.

two car crash in Clackmannanshire believe the driver of a nearby 4x4 may hold vital information. A man was left seriously injured in hospital after his Honda Civic collided with a Vauxhall van on Burnside Farm Road between Alva and Fishcross on Monday, June 14.

school she has accused of covering up a historic child sex abuse scandal made her apologise to a pervert teacher.

schoolgirl died after falling from a roof above a supermarket in Largs. The 13-year-old, named locally as Sarah from Fairlie, is thought to have fallen from a height just before midnight on Saturday.

Largs, late on Saturday night after reports a girl had been injured in a fall at around 11:45pm. The 13-year-old was tragically pronounced dead at the scene.

Tik Tok for drunkenly turning up at the wrong door and asking to be let inside. Ciara Edgar, from Glasgow, was caught on camera ringing the doorbell of a house she thought her pal lived in after a few alcoholic beverages.

The residents of Avon Drive in Linlithgow, West Lothian, took to the streets to party on Tuesday, June 15, after the Linlithgow Marches were cancelled. This is the second year the popular event has been cancelled and, after the blow, residents decided to take matters into their own hands to party on down.

Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) will place a herd of eight-foot-tall giraffe models across Edinburgh. It's part of a bid to help the city recover after lockdown and raise much needed funds for wildlife conservation.Set to arrive in Summer 2022, the RZSS stated that each sculpture will be designed and decorated by artists and communities to create the large-scale public art event.

Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.Supermarket giant Aldi has revealed that it’s aiming to open 20 new stores across Scotland - including in Dumbarton and Helensburgh.The budget chain, which currently has 96 stores in Scotland and 900 across the UK, is looking for suitable sites for new stores - with Dumbarton and Helensburgh targeted as potential locations, on a list that also includes Bishopbriggs, Clarkston and Dunblane.Aldi are on

mum who survived losing five litres of blood, a haemorrhage and emergency hysterectomy, is backing a campaign to urge Scots to give blood and 'save lives'. Annie Kenyon from Aberdeenshire would love Scots to back the Pledge a Pint campaign off the back of World Blood Donor Day on June 14.

River City actor Sean Connor claims he couldn't believe it when he and his friends were asked to leave a Glasgow bar for singing Scotland songs just after the match. Sean, 23, who plays Dylan Christie in the BBC Scotland's soap, was out with five of his pals to celebrate Scotland's first appearance at a men's major finals in 23 years.

River Clyde has been pictured for the first time. Aidan Rooney, from Wishaw, was pulled from the water at Garrion Bridge by emergency services on Sunday after the alarm was raised shortly after 3pm.

Environmental Services (HES) – whose headquarters were near Shotts in Lanarkshire –launched legal action after the firm failed to consult them before making them redundant.

Wendy Forbes, 35, and her son Cole, 13 weren’t at their home in Fintry, Dundee at the time. Firefighters managed to rescue their dog Buddy.

hospital after being hit by a car in South Lanarkshire. We told how the nine-year-old pedestrian was mowed down in Harelesshill Road, Larkhall on Wednesday.