‘Let’s burn her out’ Scots neglect mum targeted by vigilantes after child's death

Kilmarnock.The 27-year-old, named locally as Robbie Roy, was found in the town on Wednesday evening around 4.50pm.Police confirmed the discovery and said there is not believed to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.Our sister title The Kilmarnock Standard reported the body was found near near Kennedy Drive.Tributes have flooded in across social media in honour of the dad-of-two.His heartbroken partner Jodi Sloan wrote a public post saying she felt “lost” without him.Paying

Edinburgh after traffic lights malfunctioned. Around fifty cars were stranded for up to an hour as they queued to leave the Longstone Sainsbury 's branch.

smash on the M8 near Shotts. A large section of Scotland’s busiest motorway was shut off as emergency services scrambled to the scene this morning.

Police Scotland has confirmed the trio, aged 22, 26 and 28, were arrested on Tuesday night in the upmarket Glasgow suburb of Newton Mearns. They were detained after a Ford Fiesta was stopped in the suburb's Netherton Road at around 10.55pm on September 29.

sign off from television for good.The 45-year-old, once recognised as Scotland’s second most influential creative voice on social media behind JK Rowling, is bowing out with one last telly hurrah – for the sake of his peace of mind. After a decade of successful tours, high-profile live shows at major venues, three acclaimed books and multiple TV series, Brian Limond is devoting his creative energies entirely to interactive online streaming site Twitch.

charity in her memory.Seven-year-old Freya Skene and mum Brooke Reid were dragged down a series of waterfalls in the River Braan near Dunkeld on July 9.Despite Brooke and her partner Sean McKiddie's best efforts to save her, Freya sadly passed away.Heartbroken Brooke has now set up a fundraising page in the hope of starting up a charity called 'Freya's Wish' in her daughter's honour.She said: "Like a flash of a light, a current dragged us both down multiple waterfalls."I was lucky to survive,

mum has started a petition after she was banned from TikTok for posting video of her breastfeeding her baby.  Emma O'Donnell, 33, posted the helpful video of her feeding five-month-old baby Harry to show how to breastfeed discreetly after receiving messages from anxious new mums who were unable to access breastfeeding help or classes due to Covid-19.

miracle Scots tot who suffers from genetic conditions says her daughter wouldn’t be walking if it wasn’t for lockdown. Little Luna-Marvella, from Balornock, Glasgow, was diagnosed with two rare developmental conditions at birth and doctors told mum Holly Short, 28, that her baby girl would be unable to sit up or walk for years.

wee boy’s superhero cuddle saved his granny’s life.When little Aidan Lewis, eight, launched himself at his granny Noreen, 67, she recoiled with the pain in her chest.And when the pain hadn’t subsided the next morning, she instinctively knew there was something more than an over exuberant cuddle to blame.Despite lockdown, Noreen was able to see her GP the very next day and less than six weeks later, on August 19,  she underwent a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with cancer in both

cheating the benefits agency by running 5Ks dressed as Santa when she claimed she could "barely walk" has been cleared after a 13-month trial.A sheriff found Beverley Dott not guilty and told her he was clearing her because of the highly visible nature of the regular runs she had been doing.Dott's solicitor described her as "hiding in plain sight" when she completed two 5K Santa Runs in Perth, alongside hundreds of other fun runners.And Sheriff Keith O'Mahoney ruled that Dott would not have

The cold-blooded execution of wealthy flamboyant farmer Maxwell Garvie, shot in the head as he slept, remains one of the country’s most chilling murder cases.

son of a Scots mum killed in a deliberate house fire says his unborn baby has been robbed of the gran she will never know.

eye test for a new pair to reveal a giant deadly brain tumour. Beth McKendrick Rafferty, 14, who has worn glasses since she was a toddler, was blighted with 'stabbing' headaches and assumed it was a sign she needed her prescription upgrading.During a routine eye appointment at Specsavers, Beth, then 12, passed the reading tests with flying colours so was baffled by what was causing the crippling pain.

deadly infections after being born 10 weeks early.April’s mum ­Bernadette McGhee-Jackson ­developed e-coli in the womb and blood poisoning two days after her waters broke.The 25-year-old’s organs began to shut down and the deadly bugs were passed on to April, whose heart rate fell so low in it failed to register on the monitor.She was born weighing just 3lb and 24 hours later, doctors at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital confirmed April also had meningitis.But after a remarkable

taxi driver has shed four stone after he was left embarrassed at struggling to fit into a suit to attend his mother-in-law's funeral. Billy Gray piled the pounds by munching on fast food, bakery snacks, and high calorie treats as he worked to build up his own business over the past few years.

cocaine bragged about his champagne lifestyle after jumping bail and fleeing Scotland.Security consultant ­Christopher Lawson posted photos of his jet-setting around the world as he spent three years on the run from justice.Lawson, who was shot in the line of duty in Afghanistan, regularly updated his social media with pictures from countries including Tanzania, Cambodia, the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates.But he was arrested at an airport when he returned to the UK from Dubai in June

pervert was snared by cyber crime cops for possessing child sex abuse images after he accessed sick videos and photos through WhatsApp.

accident.Philip McFadden was at a family BBQ in Kirkintilloch on June 20 when a mishap on a 6ft trampoline changed his life forever.The 36-year-old was playing with his niece shortly after families were allowed to meet outdoors for the first time since lockdown.He fell backwards on a trampoline causing him to smack his back on the ground.Philip, from Muirhead, instantly knew something was seriously wrong when he realised he couldn't move his legs.The debt management manager said: "I was trying

missing for four days said his disappearance is totally out of character. George Thomson was last seen leaving his home in the Douglas area of Dundee on Thursday afternoon.

miracle baby Annabelle Main, who was born with half a heart, is home after six life-saving operations. The tot has hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) and weighed just 4lb when she was born in January .