Scots teens blown out to sea on giant pink doughnut rescued on camera

mum -of-five says her family had a lucky escape after they were roused by a fire as it ripped through their back garden. Kat Roy, from Kilwinning, was woken by the inferno just inches from her home as her family slept in their beds.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterSecondary school pupils in Ayrshire will be told to wear face masks from Monday (August 31).The Scottish Government confirmed this morning that they would be implementing the guidance following a review of safety measures.Pupils will have to wear face coverings in corridors and communal areas but there will also be exemptions, the Government has said.Education Secretary John Swinney told BBC Good

mum has launched a bid to stop her dead transgender child’s frozen sperm being destroyed.Louise Anderson, 45, plans to go to the highest court in Scotland after learning that samples saved by her daughter Ellie, 16, who died suddenly last month, could be destroyed in days.Ellie, of Stirling, who was born a boy, identified as a girl from the age of three, and planned to have gender reassignment surgery at 18.The teenager, who identified as a straight female, delayed taking hormone blockers to

words is well-known.From Burns to Scott we've introduced the world to some it's best stories and verse.Tourist and fellow Scots alike tend to discover their favourite new word from our bonnie wee country.Though many of them may sound beautiful their meaning can often be surprising...Meaning: to cuddle or snuggle inYou might often hear a wee Scots granny telling everyone to coorie round so they can show you something.

mountain with his daredevil antics caught on camera by a Glasgow snapper. Tim Howell, 31, was videod leaping from the 4,000ft peak of An Teallach in the northwest Highlands by photographer Hamish Frost.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.South Lanarkshire Council have slammed the 'animal' behaviour of visitors who dump human waste in rural areas.The local authority hit out at increasing litter problems around countryside lay-bys – including human waste.Posting on their South Lanarkshire Facebook page they wrote: “We are getting reports about increasing litter in and around lay-bys in rural areas.“This includes human waste, which is

nurse fears she won’t get a mortgage after being hit with nearly £700 of parking tickets.Vicky McGuire - who was ticketed while working at a coronavirus testing facility in Dyce, Aberdeen -  was reassured by contractors that they’d be waived.She has spent her weekends during the pandemic carrying out vital tests on offshore workers at the oil and gas firm Aker Solutions, in addition to her job at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.However, despite filling out the appropriate paperwork before she

cops on a Scots street during an early morning incident this weekend. Officers from Police Scotland swooped on Aberdeen's Holburn Street at around 2.25am on Saturday, August 23, amid reports of a man with a knife.

Covid-19. The youngster at Newburgh Primary School and Nursery is now self isolating at home with other relatives for 14 days.

children to return to schools at this stage of the pandemic, according to a new major survey.The Daily Record’s Back to School Survey spoke to 1,452 people up and down the country ahead of the schools returning earlier this month.Reopening of schools has been a controversial topic of discussion during the coronavirus pandemic.There are fears that Scotland’s children will miss out on a thorough education if they remain closed, while there are concerns schools could become breeding grounds for

locked up.Karen Aim, from Orkney, was battered to death by psycho Jahche Broughton, in New Zealand, in 2008.The killer - who attacked 26-year-old Karen with a baseball bat - applied for parole from his life sentence last week.But Karen’s friends in the town of Taupo where she was murdered hit-out at the move and demanded Broughton is never let out of jail again.One described his sentence with a minimum non-parole period of just 12-and-a-half years as “not enough.”Broughton - who was 14 at the

2 Sisters chicken factory and 14 community contacts had all tested positive. Earlier in the week  Nicola Sturgeon  ordered every worker at the  processing plant  to self isolate and get tested immediately.

Edinburgh Live. He had spent 17 weeks on the Isle of Mull, where shoppers patiently queued to go into the town's Co-Op, and couldn't believe the differrence.

crash on the A92 in Tayside. The 53-year-old driver was pronounced dead at the scene while a female passenger was hospitalised with serious injures.

terrorism offences as police investigate 'the New IRA'. Officers had been probing the dissident republican group when they accused the pair of bring members of a proscribed organisation.

Boris Johnson’s staycation at a £1200-a-week Highlands cottage have been revealed. Fiancee Carrie Symonds shared a series of photographs which showed the Prime Minister carrying baby son Wilfred in a sling while out on a walk.  Another family pic showed 32-year-old Carrie holding her young son in front of the water near their holiday cottage in Applecross.The couple were joined by their rescue dog Dilyn who accompanied the family on several enjoyable walks in the surrounding countryside.

blood-sucking fly on the door of her car escaped a nasty bite by chasing it away with a towel.The dark giant horsefly was discovered by Nicola Harrison during a visit to Corrie, Arran, on Thursday afternoon.She quickly snapped a picture of the terrifying beastie - which was around 2.5cm long - before safely coaxing it onto a towel.In a bid to find out what the insect actually was, she turned to the Arran Ranger Service for help.She soon discovered that she had been lucky to escape a painful bite

rescue their stranded dog. Two lifeboats and a helicopter were involved in the dramatic rescue with the pair were airlifted to hospital after the drama on Aberdeen beach last night.