Scots home targeted as window smashed and cars vandalised sparking major police probe

bigoted tongue.Karen Mason, 49, verbally abused people in Bo'ness, West Lothian, “almost daily” for nearly two-and-a-half years.Many of her targets were neighbours of her elderly mother.In one particularly nasty outburst she called a man “a homosexual, flag-waving Jew”, a court was told.Prosecutor Kristina Kelly said: “Comments directed at other neighbours included, ‘That’s the black b******’.”Falkirk Sheriff Court heard Mason’s behaviour got so bad that a couple living in Links Road, Bo’ness,

conviction quashed on appeal. Glaswegian Adnan Ahmed - who called himself Addy A-game in secretly-filmed videos posted online - was convicted of threatening and abusive behaviour for approaching several young women, causing them fear and alarm.

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.

missing for four days said his disappearance is totally out of character. George Thomson was last seen leaving his home in the Douglas area of Dundee on Thursday afternoon.

miracle baby Annabelle Main, who was born with half a heart, is home after six life-saving operations. The tot has hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) and weighed just 4lb when she was born in January .

care home has admitted it was at fault over the death of a multiple sclerosis sufferer who choked on a sausage roll. Richy Passmore died after being left to eat lunch on his own, despite clear instructions that he should always have been supervised.

cops have told how they saved three people from a devastating house fire - minutes after watching four of their colleagues being injured in a street rammy. Constables Jordan Loughrey and Claire Coleman, both based at Paisley Police Station, have now been praised for their bravery by a senior Police Scotland officer.They had just finished responding to an incident in Belmont Road, Paisley, on Saturday, July 25, during which four of their colleagues were injured.A 20-year-old man was arrested in

coronavirus pandemic. The First Minister said home working remained 'the default position' during a briefing today.

Covid-19 in a Scots care home hopes legal action will prevent other families enduring a similar ordeal. Colin Harris passed away in April after catching the deadly bug.

gay' after weeks of torment from a teenage gang.Peter McCluskey, 25, said he endured weeks of homophobic abuse and violence from 'thugs' which led him to flee his flat in Greenhill Court, Rutherglen last week.The Scottish Government Civil Servant told how he was targeted any time he left his home by the gang of around 20 youths.He claims he was spat on, as well as being called a number of homophobic slurs, including 'gay boy' and 'p**fter*, several times a day.He added: "I tried to not let them

couple who lost their dog in a horrendous house fire has raised over £12,000.Callum Martin, 30, and wife, Melissa, 29, from Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, were left devastated when a horrific fire took hold in their home and killed their beloved Luna on August 10.The couple were out having lunch when they received a phone call from a neighbour to say their house was up in smoke after an electrical fault in their kitchen took fire.Despite best efforts from firefighters, the couple's home could not be

Covid-19. The cases were detected at Parkdale Care Home in Perthshire.

shopper has hit out after her hand got covered in human faeces whilst buying chicken nuggets from Iceland.Mum-of-four Lynne McCabe said she was horrified to discover she had been smeared in poo after putting her hand inside a freezer in the Saltcoats store at 3.30pm yesterday.Lynne, from Kilwinning, realised there was human excrement on the packaging of the nuggets she was buying for her children's dinner when she accidentally touched her nose.The 35-year-old said: "The smell was awful.

coronavirus in the past 24 hours. The First Minister also hit out at “selfish and irresponsible" Covid idiots after more than 300 people were thrown out of an illegal rave at a rented Scots mansion.Police  shut down the party at a £1625-a-night property in Midlothian on Saturday night.

Fife beach after bad weather saw the levels of bacteria skyrocket. Tests were carried out at the Silver Sands beach in Aberdour on August 17 and discovered a disturbingly high level of human and animal waste.

drug dealing has been jailed.Morag Yorston, from Dundee, was today locked up for five years and 11 months after pleading guilty to supplying heroin and cocaine and being involved in serious organised crime in July last year.Yorston failed to appear at the High Court in Glasgow for sentencing in September 2019.

dementia pensioner who recorded a charity single is back on the microphone after music 'saved her' during lockdown. We told how a video of Margaret Mackie performing Frank Sinatra's My Way at her care home in Edinburgh went viral in late 2019.

horrific cruelty at a former remand home.His nightmare ordeal included a sick sex attack by a woman guard after being sent to Calder House in Blantyre aged 11 for a minor misdemeanor he denies to this day.Yet after reporting his horrors to the ongoing Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, he was left furious as the home forms no part of the hearing.Now 62, he said: “I’ve repeatedly asked the abuse inquiry why they’ve not got it on their list but they just fob me off.“They’re not investigating and we’re

probe after a man smashed the window of a luxury car before setting it on fire in a late night attack. Police were called to the Smithton area of Inverness last night after the incident at around 12.30am.

Irvine earlier today. Jake Alcroft, 63, was driving on Bank street when he lost control and struck a parked car at around 10.45am on Thursday morning.He was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.