Scots swimmer nearly died after being stung by monster jellyfish

family their son had died in a horrific crash. The (unnamed) 18-year-old was badly hurt when a red Ford Fiesta veered off the road into a field in Aberdeenshire.

coronavirus cluster at a Scots primary school has now grown to seven cases, health chiefs have confirmed. Staffing shortages now mean Carnegie Primary School in Dunfermline will be closed from today until after the October holidays.

crash in Aberdeenshire has left one teen dead and another fighting for life in hospital. Police and paramedics were scrambled to the A90 between Crimond and St Fergus gas terminal at around 7.30am this morning.

cinema chain after the news of site closures and potential job losses broke over social media. The Sunday Times reported that the firm could close theatres across the country due to the coronavirus pandemic.

dogs went missing at the top of Ben Donich.Frankie, a collie, and Griffin, a bearded collie, were last seen at the Brack at the top of Ben Donich, near the Rest and Be Thankful in Argyll, on Friday.Worried owner Gael Fletcher issued an appeal on Facebook after her family searched the for five hours for the dogs.She said she and partner Gordon are becoming “frantic with worry” and their children are “devastated”.She had been missing since Friday, October 2 and “last seen heading for the river or

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,

NHS Ayrshire & Arran patient has died after testing positive for coronavirus, it was revealed today.The person's death was announced alongside six others across Scotland this afternoon.

fisherman who tragically died after falling overboard into the North Sea.The 45-year-old, who has been named locally as John Mctaggart, fell into the water shortly before 2am on Tuesday around four miles off the Stonehaven coast.A massive search and rescue operation was launched to try and save the stricken sailor, who has been described as an ‘amazing man’.An HM Coastguard helicopter was joined by RNLI crews from Stonehaven and Aberdeen but John tragically died after being pulled from the

heartbroken mum of a young Scots nurse who tragically died in her sleep says she doesn’t know how their family will “cope without her”.Tragic Andrea MacDonald, 32, passed away while staying at a friend’s house in Inverness on Thursday night.Devastated mum Allison, from Fort William, described her daughter as a “very special, unique and wonderful girl” who was the “kindest soul you’d ever meet”.Her cause of her death has not yet been established.She told the Daily Record: “It’s just unbelievable,

Tributes have poured in for a “lovely” and “wonderful” Inverness cafe manager who died suddenly in her sleep. Andrea MacDonald, 32, ran a popular social enterprise cafe in the Highland town where she was a much-loved member of the local community.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.An 11-year-old Wishaw schoolgirl is the inspiration behind an innovative new collection of jewellery.Sarah Mcgough, 33, named her online business after her daughter Summer Jane, a P7 pupil at St Thomas’s Primary.Sarah’s husband Michael runs Peter Francis Jewellers in Caledonian Road, Wishaw.The couple met after she moved to Scotland from Cork 15 years ago.Last year she launched Summer Jane, an online

uni have been basted as 'draconian' after emailing students threatening huge fines or even expulsion if they're caught in each other's flats. Aberdeen University has warned students of the consequences facing them if they breach national Covid-19 related guidance.

Scots fishing Loch. Two helicopters and a number of fire engines, ambulances and police vehicles raced to Loch Snipe outside the village of Coylton in Ayrshire at about 6.35pm on Sunday night.

Indian summer could soon be shattered – by the first named storm of the season.Much of the country has recently basked in day-long sunshine, while nights have been notable for their plunging temperatures.But this quiet autumn weather may soon be replaced by 70mph winds swept in by Storm Aiden.The Met Office is tracking no fewer than three low pressure systems, expected to make landfall in the UK by Friday.Each one of them has the capacity to deepen before it arrives, which would produce

tot was rushed to hospital at around 5.05pm yesterday, Saturday, September 26, after cops and paramedics arrived on the scene on Ravelston Street in the Carntyne area of the city. The child then sadly passed away at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.

son of a Scots mum killed in a deliberate house fire says his unborn baby has been robbed of the gran she will never know.

car crash has branded the driver who tried to frame her a 'toxic monster'. Ellie Plenderleith, 20, said she has lived in constant anxiety since the horror crash which killed friend Jack Frame, 16, on New Trows Road, Lesmahagow on February 10, 2019.

breast cancer just weeks after giving birth. Rebecca Broughton, who is just 26, has challenged herself to see 30 and watch her two baby sons' first days at school.

bigoted tongue.Karen Mason, 49, verbally abused people in Bo'ness, West Lothian, “almost daily” for nearly two-and-a-half years.Many of her targets were neighbours of her elderly mother.In one particularly nasty outburst she called a man “a homosexual, flag-waving Jew”, a court was told.Prosecutor Kristina Kelly said: “Comments directed at other neighbours included, ‘That’s the black b******’.”Falkirk Sheriff Court heard Mason’s behaviour got so bad that a couple living in Links Road, Bo’ness,