Scots street turned into winter wonderland for annual charity event

A charity has warned that council tax arrears could soar this year after new data showed its clients need help clearing debts almost three times higher than the average bill amid the cost-of-living crisis. Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) revealed that its clients owed a cumulative £12.7million to local authorities for unpaid tax bills between September 2021 and September 2022.

A veteran spent Christmas Day alone in intensive care after a dream festive holiday to Thailand turned into a nightmare.

Christmas may be over, but there is plenty of time left to book a cosy winter getaway to escape the colder months.

Police probing a ‘targeted’ Christmas Day attack on a woman say the getaway car used by the suspect was found on fire just hours later. An investigation has been launched after a 32-year-old was assaulted in the Graysknowe area of Edinburgh at around 6pm on Sunday.

A Scots shop owner has been handing out free 'sleeping pods' for homeless people in a bid to save lives this winter.

Penny Lancaster appeared on The Great British Sewing Bee last night (Thursday) and gave viewers an insight into life with Rod Stewart as she made him a personalised gift.

Police in Renfrewshire are hunting a motorist who knocked down three teenagers in Linwood before fleeing the scene almost a month ago.

A Scots inmate threatened to kill his partner after she dumped him over a prison video call.

A woman has been arrested after a 'disturbance' broke out on a residential street in Edinburgh.

A man has been rushed to hospital after a horror attack on a Scots street.

The heartbroken dad of tragic teen Grace Handling is ramping up his campaign for a law change targeting drug dealers. Stewart Handling will directly lobby law chiefs undertaking a review of homicide laws.

A woman who tragically died after being knocked down in a suspected 'hit and run' near Falkirk has been named.

A woman has been rushed to hospital after being struck by a van in Rutherglen.

A woman has tragically died after being knocked down in a suspected ‘hit and run’ near Falkirk.

Emergency services rushed to a Scots street this afternoon after a car burst into flames. Fire crews attended a road in the Duddingston area of Edinburgh on Wednesday.

The £10,000 reward for the arrest of Scotland’s most wanted men has been dropped after they were posted missing, presumed dead. Charity Crimestoppers put up the bounty for the capture of alleged kingpins James and Barry Gillespie – dubbed The Pablo Escobar Brothers. They are wanted as part of a global probe into money laundering, drug dealing and gun trafficking.

A barber who called his salon Prov-City after the US city he grew up in has been subjected to an eight-month campaign of sectarian abuse. Graffiti has been daubed on the door of Stuart Pelletier’s salon and stones thrown at the ­window, and he has been subjected to abuse by strangers, who believe he is an IRA sympathiser, shouting: “C’mon the Provos.”

A trailer with faulty brakes turned into “an unguided missile” when it detached from the Land Rover towing it, a judge said today. Lord Mulholland told driver Mark McVay he was criminally responsible for causing the death of 38-year-old Michelle Russell because he had failed to make sure the trailer was hitched securely to his vehicle before the accident near Saline in Fife August 30 2018.

A Loch Ness visitor centre has been "transformed into a winter wonderland" with a range of activities set to take place across December.