Man kept starving dogs in filthy Airdrie house and left them so hungry they fought over food

Edinburgh property. Emergency services were called to Inglis Green Road, in the Longstone area, shortly after midnight on Saturday.

straight to your inboxManchester City have joined the race to sign reported Liverpool target Thiago Alcantara from Bayern Munich - according to reports.The 29-year-old is set to leave the club this summer after informing the German champions he wants a new challenge after winning his seventh Bundesliga title this season.Various reports suggest the Spaniard is eager to join Liverpool to work with Jurgen Klopp but German outlet Sport1 claim City's title rivals have reached an agreement with the

straight to your inbox Manchester City fans labelled Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos 'classy' after the German embraced Kevin De Bruyne after Friday night's match. After months of waiting following the first leg, City and Madrid finally contested the reverse fixture and the Blues emerged as 4-2 aggregate victors.

straight to your inboxHere are the Manchester City morning headlines for Wednesday, August 5.Manchester City’s rebuilding project has begun with the arrival of Ferran Torres from Valencia.The Spanish winger, a replacement for Leroy Sane after the German’s move to Bayern Munich, joins in a deal worth £20.8m and will be available for the start of the 2020/21 Premier League season.Torres scored four goals in La Liga last season and another two in the Champions League, including a goal and assist in

Police in West Lothian have launched an enquiry after the body of a man was found inside a house in Bathgate at the weekend.The body of the 43-year-old was found in a property on Marjoribanks Street on Sunday.Police confirmed officers are investigating the “unexplained” death.A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “Around 1.15pm on Sunday, August, 2, the body of a 43-year-old man was discovered within a property on Marjoribanks Street, Bathgate.“The death is currently being treated as unexplained

straight to your inboxManchester City’s transfer strategy this summer has included a definite decision to improve the pace of the squad.That might sound odd when they have just sold Leroy Sane, who was clocked as the quickest player in the Premier League a couple of years ago, with one newspaper observing – bizarrely – that he was as “fast as a T Rex”.But Sane’s departure was unavoidable, as he wanted to go, and the fact that the two players coming in off the proceeds of the Germany winger’s

straight to your inboxBorussia Dortmund are eyeing a move for Manchester City's highly rated youngster Jamie Bynoe-Gittens, according to reports.The young winger only turns 16 this week but has already represented City twice at under-18 level, scoring once, and is one of the highly rated players in the academy.His potential hasn't gone unnoticed, however, as German giants Dortmund are hoping to replicate the success they had with Jadon Sancho by snapping up another of the Blues' promising

Manchester United provide most of the fee they are close to agreeing for Ferran Torres.City are hoping to complete the initial £21m deal for Valencia winger Torres in their first major signing of the summer.

straight to your inbox German newspaper Der Spiegel claims to have fresh evidence that Manchester City lied to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. But the Blues have hit back strongly at the new allegations and issued a statement totally refuting the claims.

straight to your inboxManchester City may have received a boost in their pursuit of Bayern Munich defender David Alaba, reports suggest.Benjamin Mendy and Oleksandr Zinchenko have missed large portions of the season with injury this season, leading to speculation that Pep Guardiola could opt to sign a new left-sided full-back.Alaba worked with Guardiola during his time with the German champions and has been earmarked as a potential recruit, though MEN Sport understand he is not a priority

A Scots mum fears her little boy has been left partially blind after being squirted in the eye with hand sanitiser during a birthday trip out.Little Jaxson Mcavoy was badly hurt following the freak accident at Deep Sea World in North Queensferry, Fife, on Sunday.The three-year-old was left screaming in agony with bad burns to his eye after using the dispenser at the entrance of the tourist attraction.Furious mum Katie claims aquarium staff told her to pay the £38 entrance fee for her family

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racist abuse.Debora Kayembe, 45, has compared the racially motivated attacks she's suffered in the Midlothian town she lives in as 'like Alabama in 1964' - the epicentre of the US Civil Rights movement where black people were subjected to abhorrent racism.Single mum-of-two Debora, who lives in Bonnyrigg with her two teenage children, left her home in the Congo in 2005 after a backlash against her investigative work into a massacre of women and children put her life at risk.  She has forged a

stabbed a Scots housing association worker who was trying to help him has been jailed for life. Peter Cannon launched the unprovoked attack on Lynne Robertson as she sat behind her desk at River Clyde Homes, Greenock, on September 30 last year.

kidney dialysis and almost died from painful infections now faces an agonising wait to find out if he can get a lifesaving transplant. Lucas Webster is currently undergoing gruelling kidney dialysis treatment three times a week, with each session lasting four hours.

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.A HEARTLESS Airdrie man who badly neglected two dogs in his care has been given a five-year ban on owning dogs following a Scottish SPCA investigation.Andrew William McPherson admitted he failed to provide a nutritionally adequate diet or veterinary treatment for Zara, a seven-year-old female German Shepherd, and Bobo, a 16-year-old male crossbreed, resulting in the dogs’ welfare being seriously impacted and causing

homeless accommodation, but I didn't expect this."There's a dreadful smell that makes me and the kids sick, that I can't get rid off, there's a fly infestation, that no amount of cleaning helps and the walls are covered in splattered paint from the previous tenant."There's not even any carpets."My daughter is six and has autism. When the schools start back I don't know what I'll do because she'll have to travel to Royston."The house is a s***-hole.

Perth residents can sit in at the two McDonald’s stores in the city. The fast food giant announced on Wednesday that, after a successful pilot, its’s restaurants were now able to have customers in them.This will impact the McDonald’s at Broxden and on Dunkeld Road. Call for urgent action on road named one of the most dangerous in Scotland Residents previously rushed to the stores when the drive thru service opened in June.