Scots dad-of-two heartbroken after pizza van mysteriously burns down overnight

hospital. The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Oversight Board was set up to address the specific issues of infection prevention and control at the £842 million facility, which opened in 2015.

education watchdog after pinching a pupil’s nose and causing it to bleed while trying to calm him down. James Walker McKenna admitted grabbing hold of the young boy’s nose during the incident at Dalry Primary School, Dumfries and Galloway, in May 2018.

North Lanarkshire teacher has been banned from the profession after making a string of disgusting sexual comments to fellow staff members and sending messages to a pupil on social media. The council employee, who has not been named, added a pupil on Facebook before sending them a number of ‘inappropriate messages’ prior to March 2018.

bomb squad has been called to a busy Scots call centre after the discovery of a ‘suspicious package’.The alarm was raised at the Tesco Customer Engagement Centre in Dundee shortly after 10am on Monday.Police locked down the surrounding roads including the city’s Kingsway as a precaution.Staff were also been evacuated from the building ‘as a precaution’ while emergency services dealt with the ongoing incident.A spokesperson for Police Scotland said:"We were made aware around 10.10am on Monday, 21

Christmas present” she could ever receive.We told last month of the family’s fears for Amy as she lay in ICU at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital following an urgent op to remove a tumour.Medics were worried about the amount of time it was taking the Shettleston teen to come round from the surgery and had broken the news that what was thought to be a benign tumour was cancerous.Now, five weeks on from the operation, Amy is awake and has given the thumbs up to her delighted mum.And

Christmas present he was given 10 years ago – a kidney.That selfless gift from someone he had never met changed his life and has given him the chance to watch his children grow up.And Ross, 48, hopes in the future another two strangers will give the same magical gift to his sons Euan, 16, and Blair, 13.Since Ross’s transplant in 2010, both his boys have been diagnosed with the same hereditary condition – polycystic kidney disease (PKD) – which means one day they too could need a transplant.Ross,

Christmas aged just three-months-old.Devastated Stephanie and Craig Simpson from Banchory, Aberdeenshire said goodbye to their infant daughter Peggy-Mae last Saturday after she passed away after being born with rare chromosome condition Trisomy 13.The condition affects around one in 25,000 babies and doctors told the couple  that little Peggy-Mae would only live between seven and ten days when she was born on September 9.The young couple, aged 26 and 25, will spend Christmas without their

pensioner had his skull fractured in a horror home robbery after being targeted twice in one day.The 69-year-old victim was allegedly threatened by masked man with a fake gun who demanded cash at his home in Lynedoch Street, Greenock, at 6.30am on Wednesday, December 16, morningMoney was taken during the first raid.Later that night two men forced entry into the same property and assaulted the pensioner.As a result of the horrifying attack he was rushed to Inverclyde Hospital with a fractured

horror bike crash are planning a special birthday surprise they hope will cheer him up in his recovery battle Keiran Lamond was rushed to the ICU at Dundee's Ninewells Hospital in October after falling off his bike and hitting a lamppost while not wearing a helmet. The 14-year-old, from Blairgowrie, Perthshire, fractured his skull in the horror accident.

Perth girl Allmeria Oliver, 9, died on Friday December 11 having suffered the cardiac arrest two days before. She was rushed to hospital but medics sadly could not save her.

mum -of-four is refusing to send her kids to school 'until Covid is completely gone' after her household was struck down with the deadly virus. Andrea Mason, 32, her son Stuart, 13, and one-year-old twin babies, Khloe and Keeva have all tested positive for coronavirus.

car and fleeing the scene.Cara McCarthy, 24, was left in “hysterics” when a black car being driven erratically ploughed into her Audi, near Barrhead, East Renfrewshire - leaving both vehicles badly damaged.Police are still hunting the occupants of the Vauxhall Omega - who ran off without trying to help Cara and left the wrecked car at the scene.Cara, from Barrhead, said: “They didn’t try to communicate with me at all.

Christmas tree. Emmet McCann, 24, who works in the acute medical unit in Paisley’s Royal Alexandra Hospital,turned into the green-eyed monster when he found his ex-partner Louise McDermott, also a nurse, in the company of another man.

Lanarkshire town from horrific injuries caused by wearing a collar. The grim discovery was made in a garden on Rosebank Avenue in Blantyre, south Lanarkshire on Wednesday, December 16.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A Wishaw couple have hit out at a GP practice after they and their sick five-month-old baby were stuck off.Lorraine Cooper and Scott Hunter’s daughter Bella was born prematurely at just 25 weeks in July.Bella survived and is now back home, however is deaf and requires 24-hour oxygen.Due to the traumatic birth and subsequent aftermath, both Lorraine and Scott have been diagnosed with post-traumatic

Paisley after a 'worrying' incident involving her daughter and two strangers. Natasha McCotter was walking with her toddler, Rowan, in Glenburn, when she noticed a couple watching them at 1.30pm on Monday.

Mrs Brown’s Boys creator Brendan O’Carroll has denied there was a 'row' which caused Scottish co-star Gary Hollywood to leave the popular show. The Irish star, 41, quashed rumours that the actor, who played gay hairdresser Dino Doyle, had quit the role over a pay dispute.

East Kilbride schoolgirl hopes to draw a line under a ‘gloomy’ 2020 after winning Nicola Sturgeon’s festive card competition.Sophie Blackett was one of 700 children across Scotland to submit artwork for the First Minister’s official Christmas card this year.Nicola Sturgeon was on the hunt for a design that “represents kindness” for the 2020 card.The 10-year-old's design celebrated the hard graft Scots citizens have put in to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus across the country.Her

coronavirus pandemic. Pupils at St Matthew's Academy in Saltcoats, North Ayrshire will take part in remote learning from Monday until the festive break officially begins on December 23.

police officer narrowly escaped serious injury after a knife-wielding man attempted to stab him with a blade. Cops were sent to a property on Abbey Park Avenue in St Andrews, Fife, at around 1.50pm on Tuesday, December 8.