Scots cops stand guard outside youth hostel amid ongoing incident

A frantic search has been launched for a missing man from Ayrshire who has vanished overnight.

A 24-year-old man was taken to hospital after an alleged stabbing outside a pub in a Midlothian mining village.

Police have issued CCTV showing a woman last seen leaving a hospital in Edinburgh on Saturday morning.

A Scots mum has accused her local council of ignoring her pleas after they refused to move her family from a house infested with bed bugs. Samantha, 29, from Edinburgh, has said that the insects are making her and her sons aged 10, eight and six, life a living hell.

A law student who is living in Glasgow has been selected by a massive international beauty brand as one of their boundary-breaking innovators nominated for an award for pushing international 'green gaming.'

Nearly three quarters of Scots are less likely to wild swim in the country’s waterways because of concern over sewage leaks, a poll shows.

A man has died at a Scots beauty spot this afternoon.

Locals were left shocked after a takeaway in Paisley burst into flames overnight, forcing residents to be evacuated as fire crews battled the inferno.

A fed up tenant says she feels 'penalised' for owning cats as she outlined her 'nightmare' experience of flat hunting in Edinburgh.

A travel agent caught in a failed gun smuggling plot weeks after vowing to go on a mercy mission to war torn Ukraine has been jailed for two years.

A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal crash that killed a Scots grandad last year.

A former engineer who held a gun to a pensioner’s head after a row over sheep on his land has been spared a fresh jail term. Brian Capstick, 52, from Ecclefechan, turned on William Hodgson, 68, ranting about a £200 debt.

A wiley police dog managed to track down a missing Scots pensioner with dementia in woodland after the alarm was raised by his family.

A Scot has died after being run over by a tram in Barcelona. It is understood the 57-year old man was near the city’s retail centre where Pet Shop Boys were playing a gig when the tragedy happened.

A Scots painter was fined £750 for acting aggressively toward a woman he met on a dating app.

A furious Edinburgh mum has been forced to use a food bank after JustEat charged her £48 for a grocery order that she cancelled before a driver was even assigned.

Limmy fans have rushed to pay tribute after the Scots comic's dad Billy Limond died following a lengthy illness.

The body of a man has been found at an Angus nature reserve.

A man has been dragged off a plane at Manchester Airport by armed police after being caught smoking in the toilet. The incident happened on the Ryanair flight RK3442 from Palma to Manchester on Tuesday, May 30.

An urgent search has been launched for an elderly dementia sufferer who vanished from a West Lothian town.