Scots punter plugs in his own electric heater at pub and causes power cut

Chistmas presents from under the tree of a Lanarkshire home before making off in the family's car. The callous criminals hit the home on Hamilton Road in Larkhall on Thursday morning.

care home has combated Covid restrictions by building an outdoor visitor hub for residents to see their families. Abbeyfield House, in Irvine, has created a safe space for the old folk to meet their families in a garden setting - while managing to be undercover and warm in the winter.

Jason Leitch has urged Scots to wear a face covering when they are sitting down to their Christmas dinner. The Senior Clinical Advisor says the Scottish public should do so in accordance with guidance set out by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

caught out by the trail of prints he left on the freshly varnished bar. Daniel Sweeney also admitted spitting on a police officer and he was ordered to carry out 120 hours unpaid work in the community today.

Jeane Freeman said nothing on sale in shops could be worth the "risk" of mingling in large crowds. But the SNP minister - standing in for Nicola Sturgeon at today's media briefing - remained tight-lipped when quizzed on the likelihood of tougher lockdown restrictions being introduced in late December or early January.

First Minister of Scotland in the middle of a pandemic.Everybody can see how hard you are working to save lives.But there’s no doubt you took your eye off Scotland’s other epidemic – the shameful and lingering one that has unfolded and accelerated on your watch.It has been signposted at every grim turn, not just in death stats but in the pages of the Daily Record.We’ve campaigned solidly for more cash to fund different kinds of treatment programmes and to raise awareness of the extent of the

Health chiefs have launched a new blitz to combat so-called ‘ Long Covid ’ in Scotland.

Christmas gift, a new survey has found. Four in 10 (40%) people in Scotland prefer to give cash gifts and that same percentage would prefer to give money in the form of coins and banknotes, the YouGov research carried out in December for ATM network Link discovered.

lockdown parking row turned violent.Craig McCarroll, 29, stabbed Thomas Nelson, 24, to death in April over a dispute described in court as “ridiculously trivial”.The pair lived next door to each other in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, and had been friends.But they fell out when people visiting Thomas’s home began leaving their vehicles next to McCarroll’s house.In the hours before the killing, McCarroll made “derogatory” remarks about Thomas and “repeatedly threatened violence” towards him.It appeared

lockdown, latest figures have revealed.A rise in figures has sparked a warning from child abuse charity NSPCC, who say the cumulative impact of the effects of the pandemic meant young people would be “cooped up” with their abusers over the festive period.The number of referrals from the charity's helpline are up by over 50% compared with before the first lockdown in March.Since then over 900 referrals have been made to external agencies such as Police Scotland and social services.The NSPCC's

Christmas present yesterday – when he got to go home.Oscar Edgar waved goodbye to the hospital he has called home since birth – leaving the ward to the cheers of his medical team.He has spent all his life in the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow with an undiagnosed respiratory condition which meant he could not breath unaided.He also has a separate liver condition which doctors are still trying to identify as well as a bowel problem.He was ventilated until he was four-and-a-half and is

gran who spent decades working in the care sector has been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease just days before Christmas. Sandra Craig, from Carmyle in Glasgow's east end, was given the horrific diagnosis on December 4.

Christmas trees in a bid to give Scots some ‘much-needed’ festive cheer. The Swedish furniture firm says that footfall has been hit by current Covid travel restrictions at its branches in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Perth girl Allmeria Oliver, 9, died on Friday December 11 having suffered the cardiac arrest two days before. She was rushed to hospital but medics sadly could not save her.

mum -of-four is refusing to send her kids to school 'until Covid is completely gone' after her household was struck down with the deadly virus. Andrea Mason, 32, her son Stuart, 13, and one-year-old twin babies, Khloe and Keeva have all tested positive for coronavirus.

car and fleeing the scene.Cara McCarthy, 24, was left in “hysterics” when a black car being driven erratically ploughed into her Audi, near Barrhead, East Renfrewshire - leaving both vehicles badly damaged.Police are still hunting the occupants of the Vauxhall Omega - who ran off without trying to help Cara and left the wrecked car at the scene.Cara, from Barrhead, said: “They didn’t try to communicate with me at all.

sex attacks on two female officers. Married Austin Barrett was placed under social work supervision and on the Sex Offenders Register for a year yesterday as his 19-year police career ended in disgrace.

Christmas tree. Emmet McCann, 24, who works in the acute medical unit in Paisley’s Royal Alexandra Hospital,turned into the green-eyed monster when he found his ex-partner Louise McDermott, also a nurse, in the company of another man.

Lanarkshire town from horrific injuries caused by wearing a collar. The grim discovery was made in a garden on Rosebank Avenue in Blantyre, south Lanarkshire on Wednesday, December 16.

Scottish Affairs Committee. They are investigating the effect of the benefits system on people’s lives and on levels of hardship in Scotland.