Hungry school children queue at Scots soup kitchen as they desperately seek dinner

surgeon has been banned from treating patients for three months after he made a series of unwanted sexual advances towards a string of junior female colleagues.

children so they can afford to pamper their three pooches. Claire Kelly Johnston, 35, and Stuart Johnston, 38, have spent £20,000 on their ' babies ' - Cupcake, three, Teddybear, two, and Popcorn, two - and have said they don't plan on having any children now they have dogs.

allegedly threatened to sexually abuse children while claiming he had a gun in a Scots town. Brian Madhanga, of Glasgow, is said to have behaved in a threatening or abusive manner in Johnstone, Renfrewshire.

drumming instructor of a Scottish boarding school told a 16-year-old pupil "the two of us should have children together", a jury heard today.

hospital ward for having no running water while her young son received treatment for a rare disease in the building's "prison-like" conditions. Lynn Kearns told the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry that her son was unable to shower for about two weeks while being treated in the hospital despite vomiting on his own face during treatment.

ship used that was nearly sunk after dragging a barge were not 'necessary competent' for the task, a watchdog has ruled. The Shearwater was severely damaged and flooded after repeated collisions with the unmanned barge Agem One near Kinlochbervie in the Highlands on April 9 last year.

prison after he was caught sending graphic sexual messages to a number of 'young girls' online. John Gerrie used Facebook to try and groom children but was unaware he had been duped by decoy accounts run by several vigilante groups.

Hospitals Inquiry his son almost died twice in 24 hours from an infection picked up in a ward. The infection took hold after the child, then seven, had a cancerous kidney removed in a 10-hour operation at Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Children.

Tesco manager who trawled social media accounts to find local children he could bombard with sexual images has avoided a prison sentence. Paedophile supermarket boss Steven Gibson trawled countless Facebook pages to find random young girls who lived near his home.

would-be thieves rammed the shutters of a Scots shop before driving off empty handed. Police have launched a probe after Continental Spices on Grange Road in Livingston, West Lothian, was targeted during a mindless attempted raid.

Scottish Child Payment (SCP) was topping up incomes, but said “simply giving people money” is “not going to fully assist them”. Nicola Sturgeon has insisted the SCP, worth £520 a year to parents on low incomes for each child, is a game changer in the fight against poverty.

Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.

Glasgow. Devastated family and friends of the popular teenager are fundraising to create to memorials in Paige's memory.

Citizens Advice Scotland is calling for changes to help improve digital access for people across the country after the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns highlighted the need for the ability to stay connected online from home, whether for work, staying informed or interacting with welfare services.

handed food at a Glasgow soup kitchen. The shocking image shows the woman and her toddler daughter being handed a package at the regular stall on the city's Argyle Street ran by the Homeless Project Scotland charity.

university professor tasked with ensuring Afghan girls continue to go to school has demanded ­international aid is used to negotiate with the Taliban. Former prime minister ­ Gordon Brown last week called for £5.7billion of support for ­education in the ­country to be overseen by Edinburgh ­University’s Liz Grant.

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jailed today. David Allan, 31, phoned a council contact centre to complain about the "service" he thought he should have been getting from the West Lothian-based worker.He said he would be "getting a one-way ticket to the jail, and there will be no more" [of her].

hunting a knife thug who swiped cash from a shop then fled the scene on a mountain bike. The suspect threatened staff at a store in Edinburgh's Summer Place at around 7.45pm on Friday August 27.

Daily Record, Jolaine said: "I was getting her washed and it wasn’t until I was looking closer, I asked her 'what have you done to your eyelashes?' "She denied anything was wrong at first and then said 'they fell off in school."I was thinking 'what have you done?' She looks absolutely ridiculous."One of the mum's at the school said her wee boy had cut his jumper because they had scissors in the class.