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Fife home.Officers from Police Scotland raced to an address in Pitcoudie, Glenrothes, to deal with reports of a disturbance at around 7.10pm last night.It has emerged that a 65-year-old man was pronounced dead shortly after emergency services arrived.Police say a post mortem is still to be carried out but his death is being treated as suspicious.A 29-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident.A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “Around 7.10pm on Saturday, 20 February,

coronavirus.Cops were called to Glengyre Street, near to St Claire's church, in the Easterhouse area of the city around 2.35pm on Tuesday and discovered the 48-year-old's body inside.She has been named locally as Denise Watson and is understood to be a mum of five.Police say inquiries into the death are continuing and it is currently being treated as 'unexplained'.A source told the Daily Record that it was a double tragedy for the family as Denise's sister-in-law of fellow Easterhouse woman

tried to sell a baby for £1million. Evil Claire Boyle, 34, was convicted of child neglect after the horrific incident at her Ayrshire home where a little boy was trapped in the modified cot.

fisherman who fell overboard from a vessel in the North Sea has tragically died after being airlifted to hospital. The alarm was raised at around 3.20am on Tuesday after a mayday call reporting that the unnamed man had got into difficulty in the water.Emergency services including Lerwick lifeboat and the HM Coastguard helicopter were called to the scene around 30 miles southeast of Sumburgh, Shetland.The coastguard said he was taken to hospital in Lerwick by helicopter.

tried to sell a baby for £1million.Evil Claire Boyle, 34, was convicted of child neglect after the horrific incident at her Ayrshire home where a little boy was trapped in the modified cot.It was Boyle’s third neglect conviction after being found under the influence of drink or drugs on a couch with a distressed child at her feet.She was later convicted again for trying to sell a baby on Ayr High Street.Ayrshire social workers are assessing if the abuse involving the cage could have been

West Dunbartonshire on Saturday night.Detectives in Clydebank have launched a probe after the incident happened in Renton on Saturday, February 13.Police and ambulance crews raced to Main Street in the village after the report of the 39-year-old being assaulted by a man at around 9.45pm.Medics rushed the injured man by ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where he is being treated for a head injury.Hospital staff have described his condition as serious but stable.Cops are are now

Police have launched a probe after two vehicles were 'deliberately' torched in Glasgow this morning.Officers from Police Scotland are appealing for information after a silver Audi A3 car and silver Citroen Berlingo van were set alight in Linnhead Drive, Pollok, in the early hours of Monday, February 15.Police and fire crews raced to the scene after receiving a report of the blaze at around 1.15am.The fires were extinguished and the incidents are now being treated as wilful fire raising.No-one

Perthshire.Emergency services were called to the property on Bridgeton Brae in Almondbank at around 9.40am on Monday.The little girl was tragically pronounced dead at the scene after paramedics and doctors were called to the home.Police Scotland have confirmed they are treating the death as ‘unexplained’.Local residents reported a heavy emergency services response in the area around the time of the incident.Uniformed officers are believed to be carrying out door to door enquiries as their probe

gunshots were heard near a 'well used' Scots walking route and a car seen driving off from the scene.Shocked locals reported that a gun had been fired near between the B6372 and the A703, near to the Gladhouse Reservoir in Midlothian around 2.30pm on Monday.A Silver Subaru Forester has been seen to drive off towards Gorebridge after the shooting.The land around the 460 acre body of water, which supplies much of Edinburgh's drinking water, is regularly used by walkers and others.Cops have

a probe after the 'unexplained' and 'sudden' death of a woman in a Scots high rise.

takeaway and burst into flames in East Kilbride. The vehicle mowed into the food joint at The Murray Square in the South Lanarkshire town at 11.40pm on Thursday.Emergency services scrambled to the scene after the motor caught alight.

Four hardline nationalists can be seen in an online video debating whether there will be "a confrontation between Scotland and England" as a result of the constitutional debate over independence.

lockdown to be vigilant after fraudsters sold an 'extremely' sick newborn pup online using fake documents. The cruel transaction was carried out through an advert on buying and selling site, Gumtree.

newlywed who was caught with thousands of child abuse images -and images of women having sex with dogs - was back in the dock today.Brian McCallion was found to have over 5,000 illegal images stored on his mobile phone and a PC in the home he shared with his wife.Police attended their marital home to raid the property six months after they tied the knot - and it was his wife who answered the door to the officers.The couple married in June 2018 and, Paisley Sheriff Court heard previously,

Peter Murrell' s answers in front of MSPs.

Castle Douglas this morning. The 91-year-old was declared dead at the scene of the tragedy on Main Street, Crossmichael, which took place just before 4am on Monday January 25.Police Scotland put traffic control measures in place in after the fire service were called to the blaze.

Tesco supermarket in Aberdeen. The alarm was raised at around 3.10pm on Sunday, January 24, following reports the 73-year-old was found unresponsive inside the vehicle that was parked on Rousay Drive.Police and the Scottish Ambulance Service raced to the scene but the OAP was sadly pronounced dead a short time later without being taken to hospital.

police officers ended up in hospital after being poisoned by fumes from a patrol car.An internal probe has been launched after the pair fell ill last weekend.They had been working night shift together in a BMW X5 before becoming unwell.An ambulance was called to take the officers from Glasgow’s Govan station to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.Doctors treated the pair for suspected carbon monoxide poisoning and admitted them to a ward overnight.Police union leaders described last Sunday’s