Scots 'missing out on millions' in unclaimed benefit payments, say Labour

arrested in connection with the disappearance of a missing mother following a raid on a plush Scots pad.

Get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our Criminal Record newsletter.Police in Paisley are making an urgent appeal to trace a man missing following a road smash last week.David Roach, 32, is believed to have been involved in a road crash on Stanley Road, in the town, at around 9.20am on Saturday, February 27.

Scotland.Bennylyn, 25, was last seen at her South Gloucestershire on February 17, but is thought to have since travelled to the Dundee area.The mum was reported missing along with her daughters on Monday, March 1.Police are becoming "increasingly concerned" for the family's safety.Avon and Somerset Police said: "We’re appealing for the public’s help to locate a woman who is missing with her two young daughters."Bennylyn, 25, was reported missing on Monday (1 March) having last been seen at her

Police have launched a frantic search for a missing Scots teenager after she vanished from home.Courtney Leigh Simpson, 14, was last seen in the Granby Avenue area of Livingston at around 10.45am yesterday morning.The youngster is described as being around 5ft 5in in height, of slim build with long brown hair.She was last seen wearing a long white puffer coat with a fur hood, black trousers and black ankle boots.Police in West Lothian are appealing for information to help trace the teenager and

gave birth to a surprise baby.Siobhan Buchanan, now 19, of Perth, Scotland, had no idea she was pregnant as she had no bump and would bleed monthly.She and her then boyfriend, Kieran Millar, now 21, also practised safe sex, using condoms.In March 2019, Siobhan was at work when she had excruciating back pains and the next day, she was rushed to hospital.There, doctors told her she was in labour, and just minutes later, Siobhan gave birth to baby Oscar, now 23 months old.Shocked Siobhan, says:

missing teenager from London who is believed to be in Scotland.Alfie Whelan, 17, has been reported missing from the English capital but is believed to have been in the Falkirk area since Tuesday, February 23.Alfie has not been seen for several days and police say there are 'growing concerns' for his welfare. The youngster is described as being 6ft 3ins, medium build, brown eyes and has dark hair in dreadlocks which he sometime wears tied back.

Brazil Covid-19 strain.Six cases of the concerning P.1 variant were confirmed in the UK over the weekend - three in Scotland and three in England.Health officials have identified five of the cases but are urgently scrambling to find the sixth as their identity and location is unknown.The infected individual failed to complete their test registration card so their contact details are absent sparking a a hunt to track them down, according to Public Health England.No vaccine data currently exists

missing Scot, Jackson Mason. We told how the 31-year-old was reported missing in December sparking a massive police search.

teenage girl has suddenly vanished from Bathgate sparking a frantic police search to find her.Demi Lee Middleton has been missing for two days after being last seen at 4.30pm on Thursday 25th February.Police are worried about the safety of the 15-year-old schoolgirl who disappeared from the Old Deans Road area after heading towards the town centre.Demi is described as around 5ft 6 inches tall, slight build, with light brown shoulder length hair.

Borders say they are "very worried" about her.Endellion Nagel was last seen in Greenlaw at around 6pm on Wednesday 24th February 2021.It is believed the 51-year-old may have been driving a White Mazda 2 hatchback, registration FP67YJC.Police are now appealing for information and have released a description of Ms.

Lotto’s Set For Life game.Instead, the taxi driver won just £250 after being one number out.It happened nearly a year after he lost out on winning the £500,000 Thunderball jackpot.After reading about Clydebank lad Aidan Murray, who missed out on a £157million EuroMillions win by just one number last week, Gregor said he knows the feeling.The 48-year-old, from Wormit, near Dundee, said: “On November 16 last year, I picked the numbers 6, 17, 21, 38 and 39 and life ball number 6.“If I’d picked 13

Paisley man.Officers from Police Scotland confirmed they discovered a body at around 2.40pm today in the woods near Bridge of Weir.Formal identification has yet to take place but the family of David Letham, reported missing earlier today, has been informed.The 31-year-old was last seen at around 3.30am this morning in Paisley as police launched an extensive search for him.Police confirmed to the Daily Record that his disappearance at the time was also linked to a major incident in Bridge of Weir

Jackie Baillie, made the call as part of a wider campaign to improve pay and conditions after a “heroic” year of effort.She based the calculation of figures showing 206,400 people in the sector are on the median wage of £9.50 an hour.Baillie said: “Our heroic social care workers, on whom we have all relied during this pandemic, have been undervalued and underpaid for too long.“Hundreds of thousands of predominantly female social care workers are languishing on poverty pay, while many of those

police search in Fife.Kieran Low was last seen at his home in the Rosyth area at around 4pm on Friday.The 15-year-old has links to the Dunfermline, Kircaldy and Glenrothes areas.Police searching for Kieran say his family are becoming increasingly concerned for his welfare.Kieran is described as five foot, two inches tall and of a slim build.He has long overgrown red, auburn hair and brown eyes.Kieran was last seen wearing a bright Blue Stone Island jacket with Stone Island badge on the upper

£157m Euromillions win by just one number.Aidan Murray from Clydebank went viral after posting a picture of his lottery ticket on Twitter.It showed he almost had the exact matching numbers for Tuesday's £157,644,778 jackpot, but had agonisingly missed out on the grand prize.His ticket had 05,09,15,25,29, with lucky stars 06 and 07.But the winning numbers came in at 05,09,25,29,30, with lucky stars 06 and 07.It means that had unlucky Aidan landed a 30 instead of his 15, he would have been an

missing Scots man with vulnerabilities after his 'out of character' disappearance.The family of 38-year-old Joshua Robert Holland - known as Robert - are growing 'increasingly concerned' after he vanished from his home in Ardrossan on Tuesday.He was last seen on Glasgow Street in the Ayrshire town at around 1pm on Tuesday.Friends and family have not heard from him since.He is described as 5' 6'' in height, average build with short dark hair.Robert was last seen wearing a black hooded top, black

benefit fraud has started paying off the huge debt in £500 monthly instalments.A court gave Nadia Begley, 43, six months to prove she can afford to keep making direct debit payments from her bank account.Livingston Sheriff Court heard it will take her around four-and-a-half years to repay the taxpayers' money she fiddled by making false claims for five-and-a-half years.A sheriff earlier calculated it would have taken Begley 15 years to pay off the outstanding amount through the compulsory