Scots share gruesome Halloween food creations including severed fingers and dead body buffets

pranksters used to spark a police probe amid fears of a brutal murder. The hoax creation, fashioned from bin bags, gaffa tape and rubbish, was seen hanging from a bridge by rope in Kilmarnock at the weekend.

Edinburgh restaurant owner has shown how 'dead' his business has become in the current measures by filling tables with skeletons. Chris Doherty, owner of Hemingway's in Leith, responded to the latest lockdown restrictions in the tongue-in-cheek way after the First Minister extended the hospitality closures in the central belt.

Halloween yesterday as the Scottish Government urged families not to go guising this year in a bid to help stop the spread of coronavirus.The news was met with mixed reaction from those worried about the spread of the virus while also concerned about the impact the pandemic is taking on children.Yesterday deputy First Minister John Swinney said the move was necessary to ensure people stick within the current restrictions on indoor and outdoor gatherings.Families have instead been encouraged to

pranksters are believed to have sparked a hanging body scare that saw police attend an incident in Kilmarnock. Video emerged of the gruesome-looking find showing a body-shaped figure dangling from a bridge in the Ayrshire town.The discovery shortly before 10pm last night led to an emergency response with police and firefighters racing to the scene after concerned members of the public dialled 999.One onlooker said: "Unreal.

Ayrshire home. The 36-year-old was discovered at a property in Gottries Road, Irvine in the early hours of Thursday, October 22, morning.

out-of-date appointments.And one health board has had to cancel its vaccination roll-out after admitting it was struggling to meet demand.Elderly Scots told how ­appointment letters arrived days after the date and others have to travel long distances to get a jag.Ann Booth, 74, normally gets hers at her local health centre but has been told that this year she will have to travel from her home in Germiston, Glasgow, to Bridgeton, meaning she will need to take three buses each way.The retired

Glasgow man was left furious after discovering 'scumbag' thieves had robbed his house before making off with his late wife's jewellery.Steven Cowan, 33, returned to his Darnley home last Saturday night at around 10.30pm to find two men ransacking the property he shared with his wife Nicole, who died in May after a long battle with cancer.Steven said the 'rats' had broke down the front door using a crowbar and were raiding the place as he pulled into his driveway.The suspects had already been

disappeared in Montrose on Monday afternoon. John Flett, 78, was last seen in the Angus town’s Wellington Park at about 4.30pm.

Halloween -themed freak-fest. Mum-of-three Jolene Biggins has forked out thousands over the years building up her menagerie of the macabre in Barrowfield, Glasgow.

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raping her has died behind bars.A probe has been launched after evil Gary Gallagher was found dead at HMP Glenochil earlier this week.The 39-year-old was jailed for a minimum of five years after being found guilty of sexually assaulting and beating three separate women in a terrifying campaign of violence.The sex beast, from Ayr, carried out his first attack when he was just 13 and carried on offending until at least 2012.In 2016, he was jailed at the High Court in Edinburgh after his brave

Nicola in a wheelie bin and dumped her in undergrowth yards from her home in Lewes. He stood with his thumb to his lips in the dock at Hove as the jury returned their unanimous verdict after around three hours deliberation.

bogus online fundraiser trying to raise cash in the name of their tragic loved one. Tragic Kieran Paul Murray died in hospital on Friday morning after being found seriously injured on an East Dunbartonshire road on the outskirts of Glasgow on Wednesday night.

Kilmarnock.The 27-year-old, named locally as Robbie Roy, was found in the town on Wednesday evening around 4.50pm.Police confirmed the discovery and said there is not believed to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.Our sister title The Kilmarnock Standard reported the body was found near near Kennedy Drive.Tributes have flooded in across social media in honour of the dad-of-two.His heartbroken partner Jodi Sloan wrote a public post saying she felt “lost” without him.Paying

teacher who received threats to his life is to be reinvestigated.Ramsay Urquhart, 33, was found covered in blood with his body wrapped tightly in a duvet two weeks after he moved to London.Police described the tragedy in April last year as “unexplained but not suspicious” and a post mortem found the death was “unascertained”.But his dad Murdo, from Keith, Moray, believes Ramsay may have been attacked and has been campaigning for a full ­investigation.Murdo, 67, has now secured a fresh

Police are investigating after a man in a wheelchair was found soaked in blood with a serious head injury in Aberdeen.

discovered in the search for missing teen Andrew Baird.The 16-year-old vanished from the Forfar area at around 4.30pm on Saturday evening.He was last spotted in the Reid Park area of the town.When he was last seen, he was wearing a black leather jacket, sandy coloured camouflage trousers, a black hooded sweatshirt, dark green walking boots and carrying a navy 'Superdry' backback.A Police Scotland spokesman said today: "Police Scotland can confirm that a body was found on the morning of Sunday, 4

charity in her memory.Seven-year-old Freya Skene and mum Brooke Reid were dragged down a series of waterfalls in the River Braan near Dunkeld on July 9.Despite Brooke and her partner Sean McKiddie's best efforts to save her, Freya sadly passed away.Heartbroken Brooke has now set up a fundraising page in the hope of starting up a charity called 'Freya's Wish' in her daughter's honour.She said: "Like a flash of a light, a current dragged us both down multiple waterfalls."I was lucky to survive,

Covid-19 tracing.Ziggy’s in St Andrews, Fife, told how the two dine and dashers even left behind a pair of kids’ wellies in their rush to flee the table.