Quaint budget cottage with garden in sleepy Scots village is a steal at £55k

dad-of-two who was facing trial for attempting to abduct a six-year-old boy. Craig Derrick, 31, Brian Laing, 27, and David Till, 33, attacked Darren Brownlie in a cell at Low Moss prison, Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire, on January 6, 2020.

Johnny Beattie was one of the pillars of Scottish entertainment. He, along with fellow Glaswegians Rikki Fulton, Jack Milroy, Jimmy Logan and Stanley Baxter, were the blueprint of post war Scottish comedy.

coronavirus.Norma and John Wiggins, from Hamilton, escaped the deluge of storm Dennis in February for an extended break in Tenerife but were left confined to their room when sand from the Sahara desert engulfed the Canary Islands, grounding hundreds of flights.And just four weeks later they found themselves stranded in their Tenerife apartment once again by the coronavirus lockdown.Their trip was originally supposed to last six weeks, but the retired couple only made it back to Scotland

coronavirus spread throughout the country, new emails have shown. Staff at NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) knew a large number of their FFP3 masks for pandemic supplies were out of date just as the first cases were confirmed.

jail today.Aleem Azam, 49,  thought he was in contact with a teenage girl, but in fact he was snared by a police decoy.Azam claimed he wanted to have sex with her and boasted that 'everything still worked' in his body.He was eventually snared with 18 indecent images of children.Azam pleaded guilty to sending sexual communications to the decoy as well as having the indecent images.Azam, of the city's Shawlands, was put on a community payback order with three years supervision by Sheriff Andrew

Nicola Sturgeon ' event to mark the First Minister's 50th birthday. Organisers are asking people across the country to join the celebration from their doorsteps at 8pm next Sunday, July 19.

coronavirus. The study, which is run by the University of Oxford, is looking to recruit more than 10,000 volunteers to take part in the 12-month long trial.

NHS workers are set to be rewarded with free holidays to Ibiza for their tireless work on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. The Together for Healthcare Heroes initiative is hoping to provide 5,000 European healthcare staff  and their families with holidays across the continent - most of which will be on the Balearic party island.

Scots fast food workers have shared the grim things they've experienced while dealing with rude customers.Hospitality staff were asked to share the most bizarre and frustrating situations they have been in at work in a Twitter thread.From strange requests to horrible punters, some of these confessions will leave you speechless.A social media user, named Kirsten, kicked off the discussion which has since racked up 15,000 comments.She wrote: "If you’re in customer service/ food industry etc.

Green Flag also offered some common-sense tips for those looking to buy a used car.

independence option instead. Kenny MacAskill MP has backed the idea of a new pro-independence party claiming that voting SNP in both Holyrood’s constituency and regional list votes “just doesn’t work”.

Livingston last year and turned it into a garden area for their four children.They didn’t think they would need planning ­permission as similar plots had been bought by other homeowners. The couple erected a fence and landscaped the garden and began enjoying extra sunshine at the rear of the property.

freak accident by Ossian's Cave in Dunkeld on Monday night.
 The youngster was raced to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee but passed away a short time later.
Her devastated mum, Brooke Reid, 26, has now posted an emotional tribute on Facebook.
She told her friends in the public post:
 "As most of you are aware yesterday we had to say goodbye to our best friend, our life, our world, our everything."I stayed with Freya the whole night and most of today before she was taken away.
"Everyone tried their

Nicola Sturgeon has warned Scots not to drop their guard in the battle against Covid-19 as international examples show the virus has not gone away. Lockdown measures were reimposed in Australia's second biggest city on Tuesday, confining Melbourne residents to their homes unless undertaking essential business for six weeks, as officials scramble to contain a coronavirus outbreak.

coronavirus while being treated for other conditions is not yet known, Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has admitted. Figures published last week revealed more than 1,000 patients tested positive for Covid-19 after being admitted to hospital, but Freeman said the number of deaths linked to the cases is unknown.

relocating to far flung corners of Scotland?This remote cottage on the Isle of Lewis could satisfy your need to escape to nature and is a bargain at just £49,500.Nestled in the rolling hills on the Island's western coast, the one-bedroom former croft cottage has stunning views over the Outer Hebrides.The property may have been built around 85 years ago, but the current owners have worked hard to make the quaint and cosy home modern.It could be the perfect holiday home or for those yearning to

The last remaining pub in Ballantrae village has been saved for the community.Thanks to over a quarter of a million funding from the Scottish Land Fund, The Ballantrae Trust is able to purchase, refurbish, develop and manage the Kings Arms as a community resource.The Trust received £262,493 from the fund and is one of 16 groups sharing in almost £3.7 million across the country.As well as serving food and drink, the new hub and pub will provide flexible spaces for locals and visitors to meet and

food firm is launching a new service that will excite foodies across Scotland - online pakora making classes.Sheetal Revis, who runs The Pakora Explorer and created Scotland's first pakora drive-through, was inspired to create the new series of online events after doing a FB Live cooking demo with her mum at the start of lockdown went down a storm with her fans, she said:  "The Pakora Explorer came onto the Scottish Street Food scene in 2019, to the best of our knowledge we are the only street

goats in her garden. Gilly Struthers was shocked to see the two farmyard animals in her suburban front garden in Portlethen, Aberdeenshire this morning.