Scots councillors urged to carry alarms to stay safe

Brian Cox should have had some proper instruction before handling a gun.

breast cancer believes she wouldn’t be here today if she hadn’t pushed medics to take her health fears seriously. Lori Delaney, 34, was diagnosed with an aggressive stage three form of the disease this time last year after being repeatedly told she was too young to be at risk.

mum with two Down's syndrome children is urging people to be more accepting of the condition and "stop the stares". Christina Logan's son Mikey, 10 and nine-year-old daughter Missy, both have Down's syndrome and she says at times, they have suffered from people's ignorance.

charity in her memory.Seven-year-old Freya Skene and mum Brooke Reid were dragged down a series of waterfalls in the River Braan near Dunkeld on July 9.Despite Brooke and her partner Sean McKiddie's best efforts to save her, Freya sadly passed away.Heartbroken Brooke has now set up a fundraising page in the hope of starting up a charity called 'Freya's Wish' in her daughter's honour.She said: "Like a flash of a light, a current dragged us both down multiple waterfalls."I was lucky to survive,

The cold-blooded execution of wealthy flamboyant farmer Maxwell Garvie, shot in the head as he slept, remains one of the country’s most chilling murder cases.

murder young men and get away with it, his former boss has revealed. Iain Mackinnon, who was Nilsen's manager at a London job centre in 1980, said the Scot had spoken in the office about how nobody would notice if a "rootless young man" was picked up in a bar and killed.

students to stay on campus over Christmas, amid coronavirus clusters in university halls.In an interview on Times Radio, the UK Health Secretary was asked whether students would be encouraged to stay at university over the festive period.He said: "We have said that students should stay at university until Christmas... We don't rule out the suggestion you just made but I don't want to have to say that.

link.Mr Sneddon added that the councillor will be interviewed by NHS Scotland's Test and Protect service and any close contacts will be identified and asked to self-isolate for 14 days.A close contact is someone who has been within 2m of a person for at least 15 minutes.Council leader John Ross added: "I would also like to extend my best wishes to the individual."Most councillors did not physically attend the hybrid executive committee or full council meetings yesterday and instead joined

Ladbrokes Coral for the return of stakes totalling more than £3.3m.In newly released documents filed at London's High Court he claims his wagers were illegal because he placed them when he was in Spain.Recruitment firm boss Mr Allan, 57, says in his claim he was such a prolific gambler that he had his own dedicated telephone line to a betting shop in Rose Street, Aberdeen.In five years between 2014 and 2018 he bet around £400,000 a week through the shop, making many thousands of individual

taxi driver has shed four stone after he was left embarrassed at struggling to fit into a suit to attend his mother-in-law's funeral. Billy Gray piled the pounds by munching on fast food, bakery snacks, and high calorie treats as he worked to build up his own business over the past few years.

tumour to “light up”, allowing her surgeon to remove more of it than would normally have been possible.Catherine, from East Kilbride, had been having headaches and, in agony, went to Hairmyres Hospital in April 2019.After a brain scan, she was shocked to learn her growing confusion and headaches were caused by the most aggressive type of nervous system tumour, a grade 4 astrocytoma.Catherine was transferred to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.

cannabis drugs into the country to help save her desperately sick son yesterday begged the Scottish Government to fund his medicine.Karen Gray, 46, from Edinburgh, travelled to the Netherlands to get cannabis-based drugs with previously banned tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in them after her youngest child Murray, now eight, ended up in a vegetative state in hospital.Murray was diagnosed with Doose syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy, in December 2017 and suffered up to 12 seizures a day.But within

cancer since February 2019.The cancer affects just one in 250,000 children. It affects bone marrow and, without transplant, Adeline's bone marrow failure could turn into acute myeloid leukaemia, an aggressive cancer she won’t be able to cope with alongside her other diagnosis.Last night, the sick youngster, from Inverness, was on her way to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow to be treated for possible sepsis.Her mum Steph, 26, said: “Even a cold could mean Adeline could die.

CCTV appeal on the anniversary of 'frightening' robbery at a Scots store. The thug who threatened staff before robbing them at Camelon Perk shop in Camelon near Falkirk remains at large a year after the incident.

Police Scotland for his dedicated service. Inspector Chris Mutter, from Dunfermline, Fife, tragically passed away on June 29 after an eight-month fight against oesophageal cancer.

mum has blasted Amazon after they were caught selling offensive Down's syndrome t-shirts for the second time this year.Stacey Corrigan, whose six-year-old son Daniel Murray has Downs' syndrome, spotted the t-shirts for sale on the selling site and was furious.One of the tops is emblazoned with the caption "Make Down's Syndrome extinct, while another pictures a five star rating system with one star highlighted and says "Down's syndrome - Very bad.

Husband and wife Joy and Brian Wilson are sticking together through thick and thin.The couple, from Ayrshire, have shed more than seven stone between them after ditching takeaways and junk food.Joy, 55, suffers from a neurological condition and relies on 71-year-old Brian, who is her carer.When both their weight crept up to nearly 15 stone, they knew they had to make a change to ensure their quality of life.Joy said: “I knew my weight was going up and up, and it wouldn’t stop unless I done

sex dolls together to keep lonely Scots company in lockdown are punting a giant Jessica Rabbit online. Martyna Ochmaska, 27, and brother Arek, 44, launched their business during the coronavirus pandemic from their Galashiels home.

the Chase gets a question on a world-famous Scots whisky town hilariously wrong. Keith, in Moray, is well-known by whisky lovers across the globe and is located in the heart of Speyside malt country.