Scots farmer 'trying to bribe locals with potatoes' to help save chicken shed plans

mum sits crocheting a baby shawl knowing she will not live to see the little one who will be wrapped in it. Mum-of-four Leah Gunn is just 32 but has terminal cancer – which she blames on a series of NHS bungles.

baby boy has been caged for 12 years. Brian Penn, 30, carried out the fatal attack on tiny Kaleb Penn at his home in Ayr on November 1, 2017.

family slept inside. The horror incident happened in Auchinleck on Beechwood Avenue at 3am on Tuesday.

food poisoning, Dorothy Byres was struck down on Tuesday evening after becoming violently ill after dinner with her daughter and son-in-law. But the 62-year-old from Edinburgh didn't call an ambulance as she feared being a 'nuisance' to the NHS.

police car, showering the driver with broken glass, a court heard Gerald McFarlane approached PC David Crighton in the Deans area of Livingston, West Lothian, Livingston Sheriff Court was told. He shouted and swore at the officer before repeatedly battering the driver’s side window of the police car, causing it to smash.

Falkirk has been locally named as Ella-Grace Rimington.

sex offender moved one step closer to a life sentence today after a judge called for a formal risk assessment on the danger he poses to the public. John Bermingham, 54, was found guilty of repeatedly subjecting under-age girls to horrific sexual abuse this year after being caged in 2002 for attempting to rape an 11-year-old girl and carrying out a sex attack on a teenage nursing assistant.

Sarah Everard. The 48-year-old former Metropolitan Police Constable appeared at the Old Bailey on Tuesday, when he pleaded guilty to the kidnap and rape of Sarah.

Edinburgh’s city centre, left the victim with cuts and bruises after the brutal attack. The city’s sheriff court heard on Tuesday how Walsh, 35, “accidentally” picked up the victim’s bag thinking it was his own, sparking an argument.

crash in South Africa while spraying crops and "living the dream" in his new country where he had become engaged to his girlfriend four months before. Stewart Graham, 25, from Edinburgh, was killed in the early hours of 19th January while spraying pesticide on Koos Moller's pear orchards in the town of Wolseley in the South African province of Western Cape.

heart damage. Research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) presented today found the 'simple' test could help doctors spot deadly damage to the aorta, the body’s largest blood vessel.

Davidson told Times Radio Breakfast that the Prime Minister is at odds with the rest of the G7 on aid. She said: “He’s about to have the biggest opportunity on the world stage that he’s had in his premiership, which is inviting the G7 in.

Nando’s this weekend - as long as they bring and elderly friend or relative with them. The restaurant chain will slash 50% off the total bill (up to the value of £20) when they dine in their local branch with someone over the age of 65 from June 7 to 9.Bosses say that the ‘NanGo’s free’ promotion is to celebrate our much-missed grandparents or elderly friends, who have spent the best part of a year in isolation.

cow named Margaret was rescued by specialists after being trapped in a Scots river. The massive black and white animal had escaped from her field before tumbling down an embankment and into the River Lochar near Dumfries.

Get the latest Scottish parenting news sent straight to your inbox each week with our newsletter.A brave little girl has celebrated reaching the end of gruelling cancer treatment – with medics ensuring she could ‘ring the bell’ by posting it to her.Dara Monaghan, from Dumbarton, was diagnosed with a rare low grade brain stem glioma when she was just six-years-old.She finished almost two years of intensive chemotherapy treatment in February but was unable to mark the milestone by ringing the bell

five-year-old boy at a Scots zoo - with just a sheet of glass between them. The incredible footage shows little Evan Kennedy screeching in terror as Jayendra the lion tried to get his claws on the youngster at Edinburgh Zoo on Friday, 28 May.

Kinghorn on Tuesday morning.

suicide survivor has opened up after losing all four of his siblings and a nephew to mental health battles over the last 28 years. Billy McAvoy, from Stevenston, Ayrshire, was forced to say goodbye to his brother John in 1993 after he took his own life aged just 24.

Edinburgh bar has angered locals who say it erected a pop-up beer tent in a communal garden at the back of a tenement without informing them. Locals woke up to find the white tent with picnic tables covering beds of plants, according to Edinburgh Live.