Manager of Scots nursery where baby boy choked to death found guilty of health and safety failure

Police have found a body in a coastal area of the Shetland Islands amid the search for missing woman Sharon O'Neill.

Drinkers in Scotland saw alcohol prices go up faster than those south of the border after minimum pricing laws were introduced, though one of the country's favourite tonics actually fell in price.

An Italian tourist who was extradited to Scotland was jailed today after he was convicted of causing the deaths of five people, including his oldest son, in a horrific road crash.

A body has been found in a river in Dumfries and Galloway, sparking a police investigation.

A Scots cop who knocked a teenager off his bike in a case of mistaken identity during the hunt for a dangerous ‘kill kit’ criminal has been found guilty of careless driving. Constable Kayleigh Simpson was given three points on her licence and admonished after the sheriff expressed “considerable sympathy for the circumstances she finds herself in”.

Police have launched a search for a missing Glasgow woman who was last seen seven days ago.

A body has been found in Carrick Forest near Loch Doon during the police search for missing camper Mark Goldie.

An alleged drug driver was found asleep at the wheel by cops during a bust in Fife. The discovery was made in Kirkcaldy by Road Policing Officers, who approached the vehicle to investigate after coming across it in the Pathhead Sands area.

A nursery teacher has resigned after posting pictures of her son dressed as a paramilitary soldier on her public Twitter page.

A man has been found dead at a property in Aberdeen. Emergency services raced to Hayton Road in the Tillydrone area of the city after the alarm was raised at around 11.50am on Friday.

A husband burned his wife with hot tea and choked her until she was unconscious after discovering she was having an affair. Garry O'Donnell pounced on Rhona O'Donnell after returning from work early claiming he had "good news".

Scots cops have issued an appeal for information to trace a missing man from Lanarkshire who may have travelled as far afield as Glencoe.

A body has been found during the search for a missing Scots man.

Two men have been found dead at a set of high rise flats in Edinburgh.

The sudden death of a seven-month-old baby in Aberdeen is being treated as “unexplained” by police.

An injured tortoise was found abandoned in a cardboard box dumped on top of a bin in a Scots village.

Scotland’s poorest people are 74 per cent more likely to die from cancer than the better off, a damning report has shown. Figures published yesterday by Public Health Scotland showed the huge inequality in deaths from the disease over the last decade.

A Scots contestant has become the latest cake enthusiast to be booted off The Great British Bake Off.

A baby boy has tragically died at a home in a Scots town, sparking a police investigation.

An urgent police search has been launched to find a man reported missing after his car was discovered parked unattended at a loch in the Highlands.