Man, 27, found dead in wooded area of Kilmarnock

drugs and an illegal spray after a house raid in Ayrshire. Officers discovered what is thought to be cocaine, ecstasy, cannabis and diazepam with a combined street value of £38,615 after descending on Glen Farrar Way in Kilmarnock at around 2.55pm yesterday.

Ayrshire home. The 36-year-old was discovered at a property in Gottries Road, Irvine in the early hours of Thursday, October 22, morning.

drugs recovery on the M74. Police Scotland confirmed a 57-year-old was caught on the motorway in Lanarkshire.

Police Scotland auctions.A string of weird and wonderful items will go under the hammer at an Ayrshire auction house next week, with the force saying it will reabsorb any proceeds into the central budget to help finance policing costs.The lots - some of which have been acquired by councils, banks and insolvency firms - range from luxury jewellery and artwork to bizarre items like a life ring and a garden ornament of a rabbit.Wilson Auctions will host their Police Scotland and General Disposal

link.The future of the £4m palliative care centre at Hairmyres Hospital was in doubt after it revealed losses of £300,000 since the start of lockdown.The latest boost comes after the hospice was shortlisted as one of three causes and charities in the West of Scotland to receive financial support from an £84,000 pot.Gordon McHugh, CEO at Kilbryde Hospice said: “We cannot thank Scotmid enough for awarding us this grant to assist us in supporting the patients and the families who we are here

disappeared in Montrose on Monday afternoon. John Flett, 78, was last seen in the Angus town’s Wellington Park at about 4.30pm.

Edinburgh street following the tragic death of a man. Emergency services were called at around 9.50am on Sunday following reports that a member of the public had taken unwell.

week ago. Ian Cameron was spotted getting in his car at his home in Milray Avenue, New Cumnock, Ayrshire to drive to work around midnight on Tuesday, October 6.

Scots teenager more than a year after his tragic death.Rhys Bonner was just 19 when he was found dead, half naked, on August 8 last year, on marsh ground between Glasgow's Easterhouse and Gartloch Village.The teenager had been reported missing on July 24 sparking a massive search.

raping her has died behind bars.A probe has been launched after evil Gary Gallagher was found dead at HMP Glenochil earlier this week.The 39-year-old was jailed for a minimum of five years after being found guilty of sexually assaulting and beating three separate women in a terrifying campaign of violence.The sex beast, from Ayr, carried out his first attack when he was just 13 and carried on offending until at least 2012.In 2016, he was jailed at the High Court in Edinburgh after his brave

Nicola Sturgeon must resign if she is found to have misled the Scottish Parliament, a senior MSP has said.The First Minister has faced questions after she initially told Holyrood she first heard of complaints of sexual misconduct against Alex Salmond at a meeting with him in her home on April 2, 2018.It was later revealed the SNP leader had been made aware of the allegations in an informal meeting with his former chief of staff Geoff Aberdein on March 29 of that year – four days earlier.Lib Dem

Nicola in a wheelie bin and dumped her in undergrowth yards from her home in Lewes. He stood with his thumb to his lips in the dock at Hove as the jury returned their unanimous verdict after around three hours deliberation.

Police Scotland have launched an appeal to find a 36-year-old man missing from Paisley. Marcin Bujak was last seen at around 8pm on September 27, 2020, near to Old Sneddon Street in the town centre.No-one has seen or heard from him since and concerns for him is growing.Marcin is white, Polish, with a slim build, around 6 ft.

missing from West Dunbartonshire since Thursday has prompted a police investigation. Scott Anderson was last seen at Bannerman Place in Clydebank on October 1.

Glasgow street in the early hours of this morning, prompting a police probe.

teacher who received threats to his life is to be reinvestigated.Ramsay Urquhart, 33, was found covered in blood with his body wrapped tightly in a duvet two weeks after he moved to London.Police described the tragedy in April last year as “unexplained but not suspicious” and a post mortem found the death was “unascertained”.But his dad Murdo, from Keith, Moray, believes Ramsay may have been attacked and has been campaigning for a full ­investigation.Murdo, 67, has now secured a fresh

Police are investigating after a man in a wheelchair was found soaked in blood with a serious head injury in Aberdeen.

'flaring' from a petrochemical plant. Elaine Green, 56, said she was woken at 3.30am by Exxon Mobil’s Ethylene Plant at Mossmorran burning off excess hydrocarbon gases.The company blamed a fault in a compressor for the latest bout of flaring, which began lighting up the night sky in the early hours of Sunday and could be seen from 30km away.