Labour beat the odds and win Batley and Spen by-election

missing Scot who has failed to make contact with his family for almost two years. Keen traveller Gary Robertson, who is originally from Forfar, is believed to be abroad and has known links to Spain and Thailand.

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Scots foster mum who beat children in her care with wooden spoons and tied them to a bed avoided a prison sentence. Elspeth Margaret Cromar was found guilty of assaulting three children at her former home in Craigmount, Edinburgh.

TUI has cancelled a number of Scots holidays in July amid “uncertainty around travel”. The travel firm said that flights and holidays to the likes of Greece, mainland Spain and Croatia have been axed in an update to customers.

Scottish Labour has demanded a return to parliament for MSPs as he warns Covid cases in Scotland are getting "out of control". Anas Sarwar has called for the gap between first and second vaccinations to be halved to four weeks to deal with the “out of control” spread of coronavirus.

top 10 covid hot spots last week. The Scottish Labour leader wants Holyrood to be recalled as he warned that the exit from the pandemic “rests on a knife edge”.

rescued after their boat sank off the east coast of Scotland. The alarm was raised at around 4.40am on Saturday when the vessel began taking on water around half a mile off Badbea in Caithness.The occupants were forced to bail into a life raft as their boat began to sink before swiftly becoming completely submerged.

stabbed and left for dead by her ex in Spain has spoken of her relief after he was jailed for almost 15 years. Mhairi Campbell was left fighting for her life when William McDonald plunged a blade into her three times as she tried to leave his Costa Blanca holiday home in July 2017.

Mercedes car after the pair got into a drunken argument. Debbie Robertson fetched the hammer from her flat and smashed every window in the vehicle as well as striking lights and bodywork.Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard the 41-year-old had been feeling “very stressed” at the time of the incident due to the Covid-19 lockdown.

Ian Murray MP said said the Boris Johnson’s government still faces “major questions” about conflicts of interest, Government contracts and the use of personal email accounts despite Hancock’s resignation the day after photos and videos of him kissing his part-time adviser, Gina Coladangelo, in his office were published. The Edinburgh South MP said there were a list of questions for the Tories to answer which went beyond Hancock’s personal scandal.

fishing vessel in the Inner Hebrides.

Pam Duncan-Glancy, the first permanent wheelchair user elected to Holyrood, said thousands of Scots had gone without adequate care during the height of the coronavirus pandemic - leaving many families at "breaking point" as a result. In an interview with the Record, the Glasgow MSP explained why she cannot support a proposed bill which would legalise assisted dying at a time when so many people are unable to live independently.

Burnham came top with 18 per cent of the vote. Keir Starmer was second at seven per cent and London mayor Sadiq Khan was next with just three per cent.

Katy Clark, a left winger, said indyref2 should happen if the parliament says there “needs” to be one. She also said Holyrood should have a veto on Trident renewal and going to war.

Katy Clark said Peel Ports Group, which has a substantial presence in Scotland, should be brought into public ownership.Part of a vast UK-wide network, the firm has ports in Glasgow, Greenock, Hunterston and Ardrossan which it says act as the nation’s “gateway to Ireland and transatlantic Americas as well as European hubs”.Peel is also the controlling Port Authority for 450 square miles of the River Clyde and more than 15.4 million tonnes of cargo are processed every year.However Clark, who was

assisted suicide in Scotland.