Police Scotland fears as UK officers targeted in Australian force recruitment drive

A 22-year-old woman who tragically died after being hit by a police car on Christmas Eve has been described as a cherished daughter by her heartbroken family. Rachael Louise Moore died on Saturday December 24, after being hit by the emergency vehicle in Liverpool.

Police are asking members of the public in Renfrew to check their sheds after a pensioner was reported missing on Christmas Eve.

Police have descended onto a Glasgow hospital after a member of staff was reportedly stabbed this morning.

An urgent police search has been launched for a pensioner who has gone missing from Peebles in the Scottish Borders. Kenneth Bareham, 86, was last seen in the The Loanings area of the town at around 10am on Friday, December 23.

A Scots teenager was assaulted in a frightening attack on a dark footpath prompting police to launch a manhunt.

A man has been arrested after a woman was found dead at a house in Airdrie.

Police are appealing for help to find a woman who vanished from Arbroath overnight.

An attempted murder investigation has been launched by police after a man was attacked in Glasgow’s Merchant City.

Police have renewed their appeal for information on a suspected hit and run in Falkirk which claimed the life of a woman. April Mitchell, from Dunipace, was struck by a car on the A872 at Avonside Drive around 12.30am on Thursday, 15 December.

The heartbroken dad of tragic teen Grace Handling is ramping up his campaign for a law change targeting drug dealers. Stewart Handling will directly lobby law chiefs undertaking a review of homicide laws.

Drink and drug-driving incidents in Scotland have risen by almost 50 percent over the past seven years - but the number of convictions for the crime have fallen. Data from the Scottish Government shows that offences related to driving under the influence increased from 5,218 in 2014/15 to 7,773 in 2021/22.

Thousands of people in Shetland are facing a fourth day without power as engineers battle to restore supplies amid the threat of further snowfall and freezing temperatures. An extra 125 engineers were drafted in to help reconnect more than 2,800 homes which were left without power when heavy snow fell on cables earlier this week.

Police have launched an investigation after the body of a man was discovered in a park on the outskirts of Glasgow next to a busy motorway.

Police have released CCTV images of a suspect wanted in connection with a street attack which left a man seriously injured in hospital. A verbal altercation between the two men took place in the early hours of October 14 between Cowgate and Candlemaker Row in Edinburgh.

Police Scotland’s training school is to close after tests detected the "potential presence" of the bacteria legionella.

Screen Scotland, a national funding body, today announced that it has acquired the intellectual property rights to the Edinburgh International Film Festival and has launched an appraisal period to explore the possibilities of hosting a film festival in Edinburgh in 2023.

A desperate search has been launched to trace a missing Glasgow teen who was last seen three days ago.

The UK Government is "scared" of allowing a second Scottish independence referendum because it knows it will lose, the SNP's depute leader has claimed.

The SNP's depute leader has claimed the Supreme Court ruling on independence will see the Yes movement reach "new heights" - not shut down the debate.

Police are probing the disappearance of a Scots man who checked out of a hotel in Inverness almost a week ago and hasn't been heard from or seen since.