Scots 'MI5 informer' who infiltrated dissident republican groups in hiding after identity revealed

four-and-a-half times the drink-driving limit when he set off from his home through residential streets in the middle of the afternoon to visit his local shop.Police were alerted after another motorist noticed O’Neill’s silver Vauxhall Mokka “approaching very quickly from behind and appearing to sway”.The incident happened at about 2pm on June 22, on New Hallglen Road, Falkirk, near the former midfielder’s home.O’Neill pled guilty to drink-driving at Falkirk Sheriff Court.

cocaine bragged about his champagne lifestyle after jumping bail and fleeing Scotland.Security consultant ­Christopher Lawson posted photos of his jet-setting around the world as he spent three years on the run from justice.Lawson, who was shot in the line of duty in Afghanistan, regularly updated his social media with pictures from countries including Tanzania, Cambodia, the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates.But he was arrested at an airport when he returned to the UK from Dubai in June

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,

pervert was snared by cyber crime cops for possessing child sex abuse images after he accessed sick videos and photos through WhatsApp.

horror collision has been jailed for three years. Stephen Jones was at the wheel of a E.M.

Middle East movements, it has been claimed.Glaswegian Dennis McFadden - exposed last month as an M15 agent who was working as a resource officer with New IRA political front party Saoradh - is believed to have secured information that the terror organisation was being provided with weapons and finances after communicating with Hezbollah and some Palestinian groups.McFadden, believed to be a former special constable in his late 50s, is now understood to be under a witness protection programme

John Swinney has said that all exams are expected to go ahead next year after they were cancelled during the pandemic. The politician told the National Parents Forum of Scotland that the SQA was planning to run a ‘full diet’ in 2021.

serial killer Dennis Nilsen spoke of his remorse for his grisly murder spree – and felt guilty for smiling.His terrible crimes have been made into new ITV drama Des, starring David Tennant, which will begin next week.In a 2014 letter from his cell at Full Sutton prison in Yorkshire, he discussed a visit made to US jail Alcatraz and wrote: “Well you say it costs $15 to visit Alcatraz."The price of my permanent visit to Full Sutton has been much higher than that – in terms of the cost of the lives

policeman has relived the moment he and his dog were run down as they tried to halt car thieves.The officer and his four-legged partner Rudi had left their vehicle to chase three suspects who had ditched a car near London Road in the east end of Glasgow.But a second stolen vehicle was waiting to pick up the fugitives and its driver mowed the police pair down.The unnamed officer had to undergo two months of intensive physiotherapy for back and leg injuries before he could return to duty.Rudi

missing airman Corrie McKeague has said that police have been unable to reassure her that bones found in bin bags in a Suffolk river are not her son's. Nicola Urquhart said she was "trying to keep a sensible head on" after the discovery of human remains in the River Stour in Sudbury on August 27.Mr McKeague, of Dunfermline, Fife, was 23 when he vanished on a night out in Bury St Edmunds, around 16 miles north of Sudbury, on September 24 2016.

cystic fibrosis patient is enjoying her best period of health for three years.Hailey Mann, 24, had been told she was looking at end of life care even though she knew there was a drug, Kaftrio, which could help her.But because the drug - a real game changer - wasn’t licensed in Europe she could only get it on compassionate grounds from drug company Vertex.However, just days after the Daily Record began to campaign on her behalf, Vertex agreed she could get the drug.Cystic fibrosis causes a

incredible tot, from Drongan in Ayrshire, looked the part as she used a stick to help her scale 3000ft Ben Lawers - Scotland’s tenth heighest munro - and neighbouring Ben Ghlas at the weekend, only asking to be put in her carrier on the way back down.Her proud mum Amy Boyd said: “She just kept saying ‘I made it to the top of this mountain’.

sex club has reopened after closing its doors during lockdown. Dundee's Club Kudos, which calls itself 'the only 7 day alternative lifestyle club for the Gay, Bi, BDSM and Swinger community in East Scotland', has thrown open its doors once again.

Hospital, were smashed in the early hours of Sunday morning. Cancer patients had their appointments cancelled at the facility after the charity was forced to cancel their slots.

battle of his young life. Three-year-old Archie was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a cancer of the while blood cells, in March, after it was first thought he had a bad case of tonsillitis.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A grandmother who wiped out her own mother's £6,000 savings in a month to fund her gambling habit has been told that only her grandchildren can save her from prison.Desperate Lynne Cree stole her mother's bank card and emptied more than £6,000 from her 82-year-old mother's Post Office account as she chased her losses.Today Sheriff John Rafferty told Cree she should be jailed but might get a chance to walk

jail.Scott McAllister and his accomplices were arrested by police following evidence from a supergrass.The 46-year-old was behind the plot to bring shipments of Class A and B drugs, which also included cannabis and amphetamine, north of the Border from Liverpool.McAllister, from Cumbernauld, was jailed for 14 years and four months after admitting trafficking offences at the city’s Crown Court.But while fellow Scots gang members have been transferred to prisons closer to home, McAllister’s