Masked gang burst into Scots home and batter man in front of children in sickening attack

sex attack on a lesbian drag queen. Pamela Kane, 40, pulled the woman's top down and exposed her breast in front of a crowd of people in a nightclub.She accepted that she had pulled her wraparound dress and bra-let as she made a point about the amount of cleavage the teenager was displaying.Sheriff John Rafferty told Kane: "It was an exceedingly rude and ill-informed thing to do.

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

pandemic that they don’t know how to play with pals.Childcare expert Natalie Connell fears the lost Covid generation will need years of special support to deal with their trauma.She told the Record that poverty, adversity and soaring levels of domestic abuse during the coronavirus crisis have created a toxic mix.Natalie said: “You would think that play comes naturally to children, however this is sadly not the case.“The young people who come into our care have not always been granted this start

lockdown completely alone as she battled breast cancer but she still managed to pass her exams – and has been named Student of the Year.Samantha Currie, 37, even found time to cut off her own long hair, before undergoing chemotherapy, which she donated to the Little Princess Trust to make wigs for child cancer patients. The remarkable mum of two spent 14 weeks apart from her beloved sons Max, five, and Robbie, 10, which was a painful separation.

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.

human trafficking.Police Scotland recruited officers Hiep Nguyen Hoang and Duy Nguyen Xuan for a six-month secondment, where they will be used in raids and routine visits to root out exploited slave labour. The officers, who arrived two weeks ago, are usually based in Hanoi and were recruited after Police Scotland visited Vietnam last year, to foster cross-country links and stem the flow of people smuggling.

cops after they received intelligence about a device at his home accessing child pornography.Officers seized a computer device from the Edinburgh home that Strauka shared with his mother.An examination of the device found in his bedroom uncovered sick footage of girls aged eight to 15.Strauka appeared at the city’s sheriff court on Thursday and admitted possessing child porn between January 10 and February 20 last year.The court heard Strauka was a Lithuanian national who had lived in the UK for

Glasgow-based midwife who was suspended after assisting with a home birth without insurance, is challenging her case with the industry’s governing body.Krishinda Powers-Duff, who has worked as a qualified midwife for over 10 years, attended at the home of a woman during her labour on July 31 this year.The woman had intended to have a free birth but called Ms Powers-Duff when she came into difficulty.After realising both the woman and the baby were in danger due to complications with the birth,

Holyrood to decide the country's future relationship with the EU after Brexit, a new poll has found.A survey out today by Survation found three-quarters of voters think MSPs should make the call on how Scotland interacts with Brussels.It comes as Boris Johnson's government struggles to get a comprehensive Brexit deal signed-off with the European bloc ahead of the December 31 deadline.The Tory Prime Minister warned French President Emmanuel Macron in a phone call on Saturday the UK is prepared to

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.

Brexit an MP has warned unless the UK government extends legal jurisdiction out to the 200 mile coastal limit. A call to protect Scottish trawlers from being sunk in encounters with foreign vessels has been made by Alistair Carmichael MP.

racist thug who petrol-bombed a mosque has admitted slashing an African terror chief behind bars. Thomas Conington, 32, launched an attack on African warlord Ahmed Al-Faq Almadhi, 44, in HMP Shotts, Lanarkshire.

by a gang of intruders who had smashed their way into their house.The 45-year-old was forced to listen as the gang set about her son and left him with serious injuries including a punctured liver, two abdominal wounds, one to each buttock and his thigh.Detectives have launched an investigation and are treating the incident, which happened in Edinburgh last night shortly after 11pm, as attempted murder.Police sources said the drama kicked off when the 19-year-old victim and his brother were

hospitalised after a brutal nighttime attack near a Scots graveyard. Emergency services found the 26-year-old with serious injuries after reports of a 'disturbance' at Hawkhead Road near the cemetery in Paisley last night.

householders in Cowdenbeath described a rumbling that they thought was an earthquake as a bright light shot through the skies at 3.30am on Sunday morning. The locals who live near the Mossmorran plant say they've had enough after complaints about 'worrying' activity at the under-fire site have 'fallen on deaf ears' for years.

breast cancer believes she wouldn’t be here today if she hadn’t pushed medics to take her health fears seriously. Lori Delaney, 34, was diagnosed with an aggressive stage three form of the disease this time last year after being repeatedly told she was too young to be at risk.

mum has vowed to fight to see her little boy grow up after being given less than 12 months to live - just weeks after being told she had beaten cancer.

suicide of a Scots teenager might have been avoided if she had better mental health support from an NHS service, a sheriff has ruled.A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) has taken place into the death of Sophie Parkinson more than six years after the tragedy.Sophie was just 13 when she died at her home, in Liff, on the outskirts of Dundee in 2014.She was a second year pupil at the £13,000-a-year High School of Dundee and first sought help from mental health services when she was seven.Now after the

mum with two Down's syndrome children is urging people to be more accepting of the condition and "stop the stares". Christina Logan's son Mikey, 10 and nine-year-old daughter Missy, both have Down's syndrome and she says at times, they have suffered from people's ignorance.