Legendary Scots climber - the Fox of Glencoe - dies at the age of 90

four-year-old battling a rare blood cancer are hoping it’ll be “third time lucky” for a life-saving stem cell transplant. Adeline Davidson has twice been on the brink of undergoing the procedure, which will cure her of the disease, but on both occasions there’s been a last-minute hitch.

care home after watching her suffer through nine months of lockdown.Lucy Challoner, 22, who lost her dad to suicide in 2007, told how she can no longer bear the separation.Lucy’s mum Judy suffers from alcohol-related brain damage and her 98-year-old gran Mary Boag is also isolated in a care home.Judy started drinking after her husband died.Lucy, who lives with 19-year-old brother Jack in Edinburgh, said: “It’s been really tough not getting to see mum or gran for the best part of the year.“Time

police custody and was dumped there. They say the apprentice blacksmith had lodged a complaint over an assault by an officer shortly before his death.

Mrs Brown’s Boys creator Brendan O’Carroll has denied there was a 'row' which caused Scottish co-star Gary Hollywood to leave the popular show. The Irish star, 41, quashed rumours that the actor, who played gay hairdresser Dino Doyle, had quit the role over a pay dispute.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.This is the moment a gang made off with eight hot tubs worth £40,000 in a brazen raid captured on CCTV.Three men spent 90 minutes loading two flatbed trucks with the haul from the Advanced Hot Tubs and Swim Spas yard in Macmerry, East Lothian.A forklift truck taken from a building firm next door was used to pack aboard the hot tubs, which weigh 450kg each.The crooks - described as “very professional” - even

East Kilbride schoolgirl hopes to draw a line under a ‘gloomy’ 2020 after winning Nicola Sturgeon’s festive card competition.Sophie Blackett was one of 700 children across Scotland to submit artwork for the First Minister’s official Christmas card this year.Nicola Sturgeon was on the hunt for a design that “represents kindness” for the 2020 card.The 10-year-old's design celebrated the hard graft Scots citizens have put in to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus across the country.Her

Christmas presents. The Fin Room in Motherwell broke the news of the raid - which netted 15 tortoises, three geckos and two orchid mantises - on social media.

Covid-19 as 48 people in total tested positive for the deadly bug. NHS chiefs confirmed the outbreak at Lomond Court in the Woodside area on Glenrothes, Fife on Friday December 11.

Robyn Knox have welcomed adorable twin sons just four months after their beloved daughter was killed in a Fife car crash. Danielle Falconer, 26, and Barry Knox welcomed their wee bundles of joy on December 4 and paid tribute to little Robyn by giving the boys names beginning with the initial R The couple, of Cardenden, Fife, revealed the news on social media and unveiled the boys’ names - Robin-Junior and River - so they would have the same initials as their big sister.

blaze at a Scottish wedding and party venue. The popular Park Cafe, at Aberdeen 's Hazlehead Park, went up in flames at around 9pm on Friday December 11.

crime in just one year.Prosecutors used confiscation orders to grab assets and dirty money in more than 200 cases across the country – seizing almost £500,000 more than the year before.The biggest payback orders were handed to two members of what was described as Scotland’s “most sophisticated” criminal gang.Gangland figures Anthony Woods, 45, and Francis Mulligan, 43, who were jailed at the High Court in Glasgow in January 2018 after admitting multiple charges linked to serious organised crime,

coronavirus pandemic. Pupils at St Matthew's Academy in Saltcoats, North Ayrshire will take part in remote learning from Monday until the festive break officially begins on December 23.

pregnant with his child.Jaclyn McGowan is alleged to have kept up the deception for nine months and given the hoax baby a name and expected due date.It is alleged that between 1 June 2019 and 29 February this year she engaged in a course of conduct which caused fear or alarm to a man and members of his family.McGowan, from Rattray, has been accused of pretending to Jamie Aitken that she was pregnant with his child during the bizarre sequence of events.She allegedly sent a picture of a cot to him

collapsed at a Scots scrapyard. Police and fire fighters have been seen at Burnside Motors in Montgomerie Drive, Leven after the roof of the structure fell down.

bulldog has given birth to an astonishing 13 puppies, equalling what the owner believes to be a world record. Wee trouper Roxy was due to have between four and six pups - but when she started squeezing they just kept coming.

Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, just two days after Christmas Day in 2011.The fire, believed to have been caused by an electrical fault, swept through the house at around 3am as the family slept.Sheree McGill and her daughters Talia, Yasmin and Nya escaped with their lives while her other son Zac was staying with his gran.Evan was found in his bedroom at the back of the house by firefighters who braved temperatures of 1000°C to get to him.He was rushed to nearby Crosshouse Hospital but could not be

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Tributes have been paid to a hero Scots paramedic who has tragically died after battling coronavirus - just months after returning to the frontline to help with the pandemic.Rod ‘Rodders’ Moore was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at the Forth Valley Royal Hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 on October 22.The 63-year-old, who was an avid Falkirk FC fan, detailed his progress on Twitter and

Bellshill, died thinking he had no family, unaware his Canadian-born granddaughter had been searching for him for years but believed he was still in Scotland. Shayleen Frank began frantically looking for her 81-year-old paternal grandpa after losing both her dad and gran.

crash on the Black Isle last week. Paul Nichol was declared dead at the scene of the incident between the villages of Munlochy and Avoch last Thursday.