Scots playpark torched for second time as cops hunt blaze yobs

A woman who plunged into a freezing Scots loch was just ‘30 seconds from drowning’ before being plucked to safety by two hero cops. The Ministry of Defence police officers were called to the scene in Loch Long, Argyll and Bute, after reports four people had fallen into the water when their dinghy capsized.

Cops have launched a frantic search for a Scots woman who vanished on Friday morning.

Flood-hit streets have been swept by Scots cops as part of an exercise with the Coastguard while extreme weather continues to bring chaos and halt travel across the country.

Alison Hammond has left fans wowed with her latest Instagram post with many people commenting on how incredible she looks.

Campaigners and Scots politicians have demanded Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt ditch plans for over £30bn of public spending cuts.

Communities will be left on "the brink of destitution" if Jeremy Hunt carries out plans to slash billions of pounds in public spending, the deputy leader of Scotland's largest council has warned.

Jeremy Hunt will deliver the Autumn Statement on Thursday, where he is expected to raise taxes and cut public spending in order to balance the books. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has warned that everyone will have to pay "a bit more tax" and that "sacrifices" will have to be made following the disastrous mini-budget in September.

A body has been found in a river in Dumfries and Galloway, sparking a police investigation.

There is a "direct link" between Scots struggling to pay fuel bills and rising food insecurity, a leading charity has warned.

Police and Trading Standards seized £1m of fake designer gear and arrested a man during a raid of storage units in East Kilbride.

An alleged drug driver was found asleep at the wheel by cops during a bust in Fife. The discovery was made in Kirkcaldy by Road Policing Officers, who approached the vehicle to investigate after coming across it in the Pathhead Sands area.

An IT expert who worked for a company providing services to the UK Government was caught with a ­sickening stash of child abuse films.

A body has been found at a disused Scots quarry.

Police are investigating after thugs stole a minibus from a care home in Glasgow and set it alight before boasting about their exploits on TikTok. Footage on social media has shown the vehicle, which belonged to Balmano House Care Home, ablaze on a grass verge between tenement blocks in Skirsa Square, Glasgow.

Two men have been arrested after a lit flare was thrown during Kasbian's gig in Glasgow on Bonfire Night. Fans were shocked to see the lit pyrotechnic being lobbed through the crowd inside the OVO Hydro on Saturday.

Police seized fireworks worth £10,000 following a raid ahead of Bonfire Night. Officers from Police Scotland targeted the premises in Wishaw as part of a joint operation with North Lanarkshire's Trading Standards.

A man has been found dead at a property in Aberdeen. Emergency services raced to Hayton Road in the Tillydrone area of the city after the alarm was raised at around 11.50am on Friday.

Cops have reported a new sighting of a Scots man who vanished from Kilmarnock, having been last seen in the early hours of Sunday.

Scots cops have issued an appeal for information to trace a missing man from Lanarkshire who may have travelled as far afield as Glencoe.

Two men have been found dead at a set of high rise flats in Edinburgh.