Only one Scots patient with Omicron has needed intensive care since variant emerged

The UK health officials identified more than 400 cases of a so-called sub-variant of Omicron yesterday.

A woman's body has been recovered at a Scots beach sparking an emergency response.

Emergency services including police have rushed to the railway near a Scots train station following reports of an 'incident'.

These dramatic pictures show the terrifying moment when a van burst into flames on a street in Edinburgh.

Police are appealing for information in a bid to trace a 15-year-old boy who is missing from the Paisley area.

Tributes have been paid to a 'patient and kind' Scots academic after he was tragically found dead in his flat.

A Dumbarton cancer sufferer who called NHS24 in excruciating pain, with what was discovered to be a strangulated hernia, was told to sip water and call her doctor in the morning.

A radical plan to pay family to take care of a loved one to ease the crisis in the NHS is being considered across Scotland.

A patient was forced to stay in hospital for five years despite being declared fit enough to leave.

A Scots schoolboy has been arrested after reports of a 'male with an offensive weapon' sparked an emergency response on a Glasgow street.

Jimmy Carr put his hand in his pocket and gave a Glasgow man £18,000 after a blunder on his new game show I Literally Just Told You saw him lose the jackpot.

Fewer than 100 covid patients with the Omicron variant have required hospital treatment across Scotland.

Scotland's struggling health service faces a “substantial wave of hospitalisations” over the next two months caused by Omicron, an expert has warned.

A Fife nurse who failed to stop an evil carer from dragging a dementia patient backwards on a chair at a care home has quit the nursing profession.

Thousands of frontline emergency service staff are off work due to the new Omicron Covid variant.

Scots are dealing with their second 'not normal' Christmas in a row as the Omicron Covid variant spreads across Scotland.

Military personnel are being drafted in to help Scottish health boards treat Omicron patients.

Nicola Sturgeon has said she is "so sorry" that Omicron has meant Scots will not be able to enjoy a "fairly normal Christmas".

A senior Scots medic insists the impact of the rapidly-spreading Omicron variant on NHS staffing levels is a "huge worry".

Cops are desperately searching for a missing Scots pensioner who vanished after 'going to buy paper'.