Shocking levels of human and animal waste found at award-winning Scots beach

baker on the Channel 4 show, has already won the hearts of fans - with some calling him "adorable". The 20-year-old Edinburgh student was crowned the first episode's 'star baker' for his incredible 3D edible bust of Scots cycling legend Sir Chris Hoy.

baker on the Channel 4 show, has already won the hearts of fans - with some calling him "adorable". The 20-year-old Edinburgh student was crowned the first episode's 'star baker' for his incredible 3D edible bust of Scots cycling legend Sir Chris Hoy.

eye test for a new pair to reveal a giant deadly brain tumour. Beth McKendrick Rafferty, 14, who has worn glasses since she was a toddler, was blighted with 'stabbing' headaches and assumed it was a sign she needed her prescription upgrading.During a routine eye appointment at Specsavers, Beth, then 12, passed the reading tests with flying colours so was baffled by what was causing the crippling pain.

car crash caused by a show-off driver high on drink and drugs have described their "torment". Jack Frame's parents first thought the tragedy in Lanarkshire in February last year was an accident but said finding out that the driver acted illegally "just turned everything upside down".

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A COATBRIDGE actor is buzzing about the release of a gangster film touted as Scotland’s biggest independent movie since Gregory’s Girl.Alastair Thomson Mills hopes the award-winning Schemers, set in Dundee and in cinemas this weekend, will prove a hit with Monklands moviegoers.The 53-year-old from Kirkshaws now lives with wife Maria and their three children in Hampshire and plays villain Des Fergie, who he

coronavirus cases continue to rise, according to a new poll. A study carried out by  YouGov  spoke to 2,690 people across the UK about a possible return to restrictions seen over March, April and May.

Police Scotland for his dedicated service. Inspector Chris Mutter, from Dunfermline, Fife, tragically passed away on June 29 after an eight-month fight against oesophageal cancer.

jail. Connor McHugh passed away suddenly at HMP Kilmarnock on September 8.

missing for four days said his disappearance is totally out of character. George Thomson was last seen leaving his home in the Douglas area of Dundee on Thursday afternoon.

'national treasure' Caledonian pinewood forest as visitors have been warned to leave their barbecues at home. Images released by the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) show burned bushes and scorched trees as the blaze spread earlier today.

dog was found distressed and riddled with wounds from a pellet gun in Lanarkshire. The tan-coloured lurcher had 60 wounds on his body when he was found in Newhouse on August 19.

Ian Blackford has accused Boris Johnson of being prepared to see unemployment at levels last seen under Margaret Thatcher by withdrawing the furlough scheme in October. Scots can see a "tale of two governments" in response to the economic fall-out from the coronavirus crisis, the SNP Westminster leader claimed.

dementia pensioner who recorded a charity single is back on the microphone after music 'saved her' during lockdown. We told how a video of Margaret Mackie performing Frank Sinatra's My Way at her care home in Edinburgh went viral in late 2019.

police investigation. Officers were called to Fortrose Gardens in Strathaven at around 3.10am on August 16.

horrific cruelty at a former remand home.His nightmare ordeal included a sick sex attack by a woman guard after being sent to Calder House in Blantyre aged 11 for a minor misdemeanor he denies to this day.Yet after reporting his horrors to the ongoing Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, he was left furious as the home forms no part of the hearing.Now 62, he said: “I’ve repeatedly asked the abuse inquiry why they’ve not got it on their list but they just fob me off.“They’re not investigating and we’re

crime king Arthur Thompson.Thompson wanted The Caravel and McGraw wasn’t giving it up so easily. He was making plenty of money from late licensing – with the Caravel open until 3am – and Thompson wanted in.Pubs were where the money was.

woman found dead on a golf course months after she went missing has made an emotional appeal for information five years on from her disappearance. Saima Ahmed is believed to have taken a train from London to Edinburgh, via Hemel Hempstead and Birmingham, when she was reported missing on Sunday August 30, 2015 as the Edinburgh Festival season was coming to a close.

pen pals for lonely residents hoping to make new friends after lockdown restrictions eased. The Dalmellington Care Centre in Ayr has issued a public appeal for open letters and pictures to be sent to their residents after visiting was prohibited for months during the coronavirus pandemic.