Secret urban badger baiting groups operating in woods of Scots towns

Scots mum found dead in woods after vanishing from her home say her sons have been left devastated after going back to school without her there to see them off. Natasha Harrison's body was discovered on Saturday, August 8, two days after she went missing on Thursday the 6th.  This week her two boys went off to school as Kendrick, seven, returned for P3 and little Haiden, 5, faced his first day of primary one without their doting mum.

police has been taunting them on social media – claiming he’s “gone fishing”.Fife Police put out a missing persons alert for Brandon Robb on Thursday and warned the public not to approach him.But the 23-year-old told people sharing the alert on Facebook he wasn’t missing and was in England.He told one poster: “No need to share am fine in Bishop Auckland fishing.”Robb, who comes from Leslie, gained notoriety when he posted pics of himself and his dog hunting deer in the Scottish countryside.He

school yesterday after two teens got trapped on the roof. Scottish Fire and Rescue sent two fire engines to the scene of Northfield Academy in Aberdeen after the pair were left stranded on the top of the building.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterA £1.1 million project is to revamp the layout of Ayrshire’s main towns in a bid to make them “safer” after Covid-19.Pavements will be widened and road space “reallocated for cycle tracks” as part of temporary social distancing measures.Sustrans, the walking and cycling charity, is to lead on implementing the scheme funded by the Scottish Government.A public consultation begins this week.But

River Carron after a large scale overnight search and rescue operation. The grim discovery was made near the viaduct in Larbert, near Falkirk, on Thursday morning in the search for a missing fisherman.

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.THE Scottish SPCA is appealing for information after a badger was found in an illegal snare in Airdrie.The Society’s special investigations unit was alerted to the disturbing discovery in the Lily Loch area on July 5.The snare that killed the badger – who has been dead “two or three months” – was illegal as it had been set on a fence line.This is unlawful due to the risk of an animal trapped being wholly or partially

CIA agents have kept tabs on Scotland.Declassified documents range from paranormal research to political intrigue - lifting the lid on the Scots ‘X-files’.Dusty files locked away include UFO sightings, psychic powers and Cold War espionage over decades of spy games.Some of the weirdest records relate to the controversial Stargate programme which has long fascinated conspiracy theorists.The shadowy work was widely credited for influencing the 2009 movie The Men Who Stare at Goats - starring

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.The number of operations carried out in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) dropped by more than 12,000 during lockdown, figures have revealed.Recent statistics from ISD Scotland show between March and May this year, 4,998 scheduled elective operations took place, compared to 17,314 in the same period last year.Now MSP Maurice Golden has called on the Scottish Government to outline plans to deal with a backlog of

missing Scots mum who vanished in Clackmannanshire. Joanne Walker was last seen leaving her home in Stalker Avenue, Tillicoultry, at around 10pm on Friday.

reported plans from the Cambuslang Britannia Flute Band for a 'closed door' event to mark July 12- despite lockdown restrictions.

dad-of-two who was facing trial for attempting to abduct a six-year-old boy. Craig Derrick, 31, Brian Laing, 27, and David Till, 33, attacked Darren Brownlie in a cell at Low Moss prison, Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire, on January 6, 2020.

Johnny Beattie was one of the pillars of Scottish entertainment. He, along with fellow Glaswegians Rikki Fulton, Jack Milroy, Jimmy Logan and Stanley Baxter, were the blueprint of post war Scottish comedy.

coronavirus.Norma and John Wiggins, from Hamilton, escaped the deluge of storm Dennis in February for an extended break in Tenerife but were left confined to their room when sand from the Sahara desert engulfed the Canary Islands, grounding hundreds of flights.And just four weeks later they found themselves stranded in their Tenerife apartment once again by the coronavirus lockdown.Their trip was originally supposed to last six weeks, but the retired couple only made it back to Scotland