Scots lawyer banned from every court in Scotland for practising without a certificate is struck off

appeared in court charged with murder following the death of a dad in a Glasgow flat. Eduard Maslov, 47, is said to have killed Valerijs Litvins, 45, in a flat in the city's Parkhead area.Litvins was discovered dead in the property in Burgher Street, at around 11.15pm, on Sunday, March 7, 2021.

British Army soldiers on campus. Elizabeth Heverin says she was handed a two-week ban by the Aberdeen University Students' Association after she quoted the song during an online meeting.

Neil Oliver has shown off letters he's received addressed to 'the rightful King of Scotland', 'sanest man in Britain' and and 'impressive hair' . Neil presents BBC Coast and Vikings and the more recently the aptly named Neil Oliver’s Love Letter to the British Isles.

paint left handed – two days after a stroke left him unable to use his right.The 73-year-old Navy veteran collapsed at his home in Largs, Ayrshire, 10 months ago.His initial thought when he got to hospital wasn’t would he live or die but would he be able to draw and paint?Barry couldn’t feel his right hand so the first thing he did was ask for paper so he could try to draw with his left.He said: “I managed it very quickly.“It was very important to me to draw and paint again.

paralysed from the waist down after falling backwards on a promenade wall is fundraising for a new "chariot".Rosie Sinclair has been a paraplegic after breaking her back when she fell off a wall at the popular Portobello Beach in Edinburgh in April last year.The 29-year-old University of Edinburgh student had been sitting on the wall and fell backwards when she twisted around to stand up.The sheer drop caused her to smash her back on cobblestones, causing injury to her spinal cord.Rosie had four

puppy farmers who dropped her off lifeless on the doorstep of a Scots family. Little Skye was advertised for sale in Glasgow on Gumtree for £1000 and was bought by a family in Rutherglen.Mum Carolann Thomas, said the seller dropped the puppy off at their house on February 27 and everything seemed fine until they took Skye inside.She noticed immediately that the puppy was extremely underweight and could barely walk. Carolann said her paws and tail were covered in dog poo and urine burns.She told

cooking shows on TV is set to return to our screens this month.

Tik Toker Jimmy Stewart has challenged Gordon Ramsay to a mince and tatties cook off after the telly chef responded to one of his offbeat cooking videos.

jury that a rape accused “violated” her with a cold sausage while she was asleep on a sofa.The 51-year-old – who can’t be named for legal reasons – also claimed that Martin Dolan repeatedly raped her while she was in a relationship with him.Dolan, 55, from Falkirk, Stirlingshire denies a total of 16 charges which include repeated rapes and physical and sexual assaults against five former partners, three of whom were pregnant when he allegedly attacked them.He has lodged special defences claiming

Laura Whitmore looked in shock on Thursday morning as Lorraine Kelly appeared to let slip the gender of her unborn baby.The 35 year old is currently expecting her first child with husband Iain Stirling, 33, and has not announced the gender of their child. But as Love Island host Laura spoke to Lorraine on her mononymous daytime show, the Scottish host appeared to accidentally tell the nation Laura's news.

Aberdeen home last week reportedly lay undiscovered for years.We reported how cops launched a probe into an unexplained death after a woman's body was found at a property in Allison Close, Cove last Thursday.Her death is currently being treated us unexplained.An AGE Scotland spokesperson called the news "absolutely heartbreaking".Brian Sloan, chief executive of Age Scotland, said: “This is an absolutely heartbreaking case that should act as a reminder to all of us that we have an important role

Laura Anderson has revealed that travelling to Dubai during the coronavirus pandemic had a huge impact on her as she lost thousands of followers and also jobs.The 31-year-old, originally from Stirling, said she was trolled online as she documented her luxurious trip to Dubai on Instagram back in January.And her followers were so furious by her decision to travel that the Scot was forced to turn off the comments on her social media posts.Laura hopped on a plane to Dubai when the UK still had a

David Linden has called on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to make the Universal Credit uplift permanent as part of a wider post-covid recovery programme.The Glasgow East MP said axing the uplift - worth £1040 a year to claimants - at a time of rising unemployment would be "unconscionable".Linden, the Nationalists' spokesman on work and pensions, spoke out as the Tory Chancellor prepares to deliver a Budget like no other in recent history.The UK Government says it will set out "the next phase of the plan

social security payments.Glasgow South West MP said: “We are in the middle of a health and economic crisis, and the uplift in Universal Credit has provided a lifeline for many struggling families and households during these unprecedented and challenging times.

Perth.Police were called to the northbound carriageway near Kinfauns at around 3.50pm on Friday after the alarm was raised.It is not currently known whether the person has been injured or taken to hospital.One lane of the busy road remains blocked with heavy queuing traffic reported in the area.Motorists are being urged to expect delays by Traffic Scotland.They tweeted: “A90 RTC. Lane 1 (of 2) remains closed on the A90 N/B at Kinfauns due to an RTC.

cancer.Laura Mcaloon, 36, from Bathgate in West Lothian, was given the heartbreaking news that she had up to a year to live after she was diagnosed with the aggressive illness in August 2020.The devastating news left the mum-of-three's family broken, with her youngest - two-year-old Connor - unable to understand why he's not allowed to give mummy a cuddle because it makes her sore.But despite the bleak outlook, Laura's fiancé Mark Smith, 37, and their other children Tiegan, 20, and Demileigh,

coronavirus case number in all local authority areas in Scotland has been published by health officials.Public Health Scotland said that in the week between February 15 and 21, Scotland recorded a total of 5,736 positive cases of Covid-19 - which represents 5.0% of people tested for the virus.Scotland’s seven-day positivity rate per 100,000 population in those seven days stood at 105.0, according to the latest data.Falkirk recorded the highest number of cases per 100,000 population during this

indecent images of children was jailed for 14 months while his pervert son also found with sick photographs has waked free from court.Andrew Clark, 66, and Adam Clark, 34, had their property in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, raided in March 2019.Various devices seized from the pair contained over 1580 pictures of children aged between four and 16.Andrew, a widower, also wrote erotic fiction about kids and used photo editing software to create sick images.The pair pled guilty separately at

Laura Anderson has said she wants to take a fertility test just to check how her eggs are.The Scottish reality star who earlier this week revealed she'd been called a 'wrinkly, washed up has-been’ and said she had lost work because 'I’m the wrong side of 30', admitted it was important for her to check her fertility.Although she's said that there is no need to rush motherhood, it's clear that the issue has been playing on Laura's mind.