Scots cops arrest 100 suspected peadophiles in six months as part of crackdown

cannabis was found by cops after stopping a car on a Scots motorway. Police discovered the massive 25kg haul of the class B during a stop yesterday on the M74 outside Lockerbie.

extortion scams- with three incidents reported in a week in Tayside alone. Blackmailers will lure people into sending them intimate pictures of videos of themselves in online chats before demanding money not to release them publicly.

Scots woman has died after downing an entire bottle of sex stimulant XL Gold. The woman fell ill on May 6 and died the same day after buying the bottle from Party Time off licence in Arbroath, Angus, police reports confirm.

missing Scots mum who vanished in Clackmannanshire. Joanne Walker was last seen leaving her home in Stalker Avenue, Tillicoultry, at around 10pm on Friday.

missing Scots teenagers. There are 'increasing concerns' for 17-year-olds Cheryl Hutchison and Christina Lawson who have both been reported missing from Spittal Street, Stirling and are believed to be together.

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  in  Scotland.The figures, updated by the National Records of Scotland (NRS), show that these deaths have been officially recorded as of July 5. The weekly statistics account for all  deaths registered  in Scotland where Covid-19 is mentioned on the death certificate.

care homes in Scotland soared during the first three months of the deadly pandemic.The number nearly hit 700 between March and May - up 34% on the previous year.Figures also show that a higher proportion of complaints were made last year about privately-run homes, fuelling calls for a national care service.Get all the top Scottish politics news sent straight to your Inbox by signing up to our Politics newsletter.We cover Holyrood, Westminster and local councils, with a current focus on how our

hospital project manager today admitted killing a 92-year-old pensioner as she walked to get her morning paper. Francis Creedican, 58, from Edinburgh, failed to keep a proper lookout as he reversed out of his driveway and collided with Christina Young, who was walking with a frame.

zoo today.The blaze has been seen at Fife Zoo in Ladybank, Cupar with stunned locals snapping terrifying pictures of the flames. It comes shortly after punters were again allowed to visit zoos and animal centres on June 29 following the easing of lockdown restrictions.In pictures posted online smoke can been seen billowing into the sky from the tourist attraction.Zoo bosses have since confirmed all humans and animals are safe.Locals have commented online about seeing the huge blaze.One wrote:

seriously injured on an Ayrshire street. Emergency services were called to the scene in Kilwinning at around 1.15am on Saturday, July 4, after the man was discovered lying on the ground.

sudden death of a woman in Grangemouth. Officers from Police Scotland were called to an address on Kingseat Avenue at around 4.40pm on Friday, July 3.  Local reports suggested armed police were also scrambled to the scene around the time the heartbreaking discovery was made.

drink and drive as police officers carry out daily patrols to catch law-breakers. Senior cop Gary Ritchie is also reminding visitors to Scotland that the legal limit for alcohol in drivers is lower than south of the border.

birthday.Laken Beattie from Stenhousemuir, Falkirk, was lost for words when officers gave him a birthday to remember on Sunday.Doting mum and dad, Nicole Beattie, 32, and Aaron Beattie, 35, and sister Rihanna, 12, wanted to make up for his soft play party being cancelled.Nicole, a high school teacher, told the Record: "We had to cancel the soft play party and Laken couldn't understand why he couldn't have a few friends round to play."I was in tears and thought I had to do something."Little

coronavirus in Scotland.The figures, updated by the National Records of Scotland (NRS), show that these deaths have been officially recorded as of June 28. The weekly statistics account for all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 is mentioned on the death certificate.

sexually assaulting a man at a civic event.Aberdeen’s former deputy Lord Provost Alan Donnelly, 65, is facing calls to donate his salary to charity amid claims it’s an “insult to his victim and our city” for him to continue to collect a wage.Councillor Alan Donnelly has been paid £8,316.33 between the day of his conviction, 12 December 2019, and 31 May 2020.More than half of that was received while he was barred from the Town House, pending an investigation by the ethics watchdog.Liberal

Aberdeen was that of tragic missing teenager David Macleod - who was to start training to be a doctor in just weeks. 'Kind and loving' David's body was discovered in woods near to the the city's Grandholm Drive last Wednesday, June 24, after going missing the previous Friday.

Police have launched a probe after the body of a man was discovered on a beach in Aberdeen shire. Cops made the grim discovery on Balmedie Beach at around 11.30am on Wednesday, June 24.

Edinburgh has been breaking lockdown by having ‘sensational sex’ on Arthur's Seat this summer with two different men.Sarah, a 31-year-old divorcee, has been seeing two married men she met on a leading affairs site.The brunette, from Corstorphine, loves having sex outdoors and is planning a summer ‘sex break’ to Ibiza with her pals in August.She said: “I have always loved sex in the great outdoors - there is something about getting passionate under the stars which is a real turn-on.“So when the

Cold case detectives in the US have launched a new investigation into the brutal murder of a Scottish nurse at a US religious college 30 years ago.Elizabeth Mackintosh, 50, was found beaten, strangled with a cord and stabbed in the neck in the toilet of a chapel at the Covenant Theological Seminary in Creve Coeur, Missouri, in March 1990.Elizabeth, the daughter of a former Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland, was originally from Edinburgh and was studying at the seminary for a degree in