Scots child abuse charity funded by public cash probed by official watchdog

Emergency services have rushed to the scene of an “ongoing incident” in Grangemouth.

A delivery driver was threatened at knife point during a Thursday evening shift at a takeaway in Paisley.

A major road through Falkirk has been locked down after a crash involving two vehicles.

A terminally ill Scots producer has set up a record label, bringing together some of the UK's best rappers and beat creators.

Scots who take statins may be less likely to die from Covid, a new study has found.

A murderer who killed a pensioner by repeatedly stabbing her in the neck with a pair of scissors in her own home has admitted battering a fellow prisoner with a snooker cue.

A senior police chief has publicly apologised to women who were victims of sexual abuse by serving officers.

A Scots charity shop boss has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a vulnerable customer by licking his hand and saying ‘let’s see your wi**y’.

A warning has been issued over a "fake" festival at a Scots park made up to "extort money from people excited to take part in festive fun".

Scots charity worker Laura McSorley said she was 'humbled' after winning the Kindness Award at the Women of the Year Awards on Lorraine.

A relative has hit out after the evil woman who starved his loved one and kept a toddler in a cage was spared jail for the fifth time.

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missing from North Ayrshire. Natalie Kelly was last seen at her home in Campsie Way, Irvine at around 1.30am on Saturday, October 2.

pornography. Jeffrey Van Dyk, 41, spent more than three years downloading a hoard of child abuse images at his home in Perth.

crashing his car down an embankment and coming to a rest between railway tracks. Craig Thomson fled officers in his Honda Civic with a 16-year-old relative in the passenger seat and was pursued across East Lothian into Edinburgh.

Scots priest abused young altar boys in Liverpool - but was simply sent back home to Scotland after a parent made a complaint about him. Father Thomas MacCarte allowed the boys to smoke cannabis and drink alcohol so he could sexually abuse them.

Aberdeentaxi driver George Murdoch picked up what would turn out to be his last ever fare.

drug today agreed to hand over more than pounds 200,000 to settle proceeds of crime actions. Eric Reid, 48, was jailed for five and a half years for his role in turning out tablets containing the psychoactive substance Etizolam while his co-accused Scott McGaw, 35, was sentenced to five years imprisonment.

teenager who vanished from a Scots town this afternoon. Aimee Moody, who is also known as Alex, was last seen in Glenrothes, Fife, at around 3pm today, Sunday, September 26.