Sick Scots pensioner caged for decade-long abuse of eight-year-old girl in Asia and Aberdeen

school after gas was found in the building this morning.All kids and teachers from the 950-capacity Harlaw Academy in Aberdeen were taken from the school earlier today after the find.It is currently closed as a probe takes place and it is unclear exactly how many were inside.Parents of pupils at the Victorian-era school were texted by education bosses this morning warning that 'trace amounts' of gas had been found.A council spokesman confirmed that the school had been closed with gas detected

Police are investigating after a man in a wheelchair was found soaked in blood with a serious head injury in Aberdeen.

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.

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,

wee boy’s superhero cuddle saved his granny’s life.When little Aidan Lewis, eight, launched himself at his granny Noreen, 67, she recoiled with the pain in her chest.And when the pain hadn’t subsided the next morning, she instinctively knew there was something more than an over exuberant cuddle to blame.Despite lockdown, Noreen was able to see her GP the very next day and less than six weeks later, on August 19,  she underwent a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with cancer in both

son to spend his 21st 'birthday in heaven' over a year after his body was found.Rhys Bonner was just 19 when he was found dead, half naked, on August 8 last year, on marsh ground between Glasgow's Easterhouse and Gartloch Village.The teenager had been reported missing on July 24 sparking a massive search.His death is being treated as unexplained. Mum Stephanie today has been reflecting on what would have been her son's 21st birthday- including putting a bottle of beer on a special memorial bench

Police have launched an urgent appeal after a 15-year-old girl was reported missing in Fife.Chloe Whyte was last seen around 9.50pm yesterday, September 28, at the Prominade area of Leven.Officers believe members of the public may be able to help in the search.Chloe is described as 5 feet 5 inches tall, average build and White Scottish in appearance.She has short brown hair and often wears a baseball cap.Anyone who may have seen Chloe, or who has any information on her whereabouts, is urged to

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterA 21-year-old man has died after his boat overturned in a loch.The tragedy unfolded just after 6pm last night after a major rescue operation got underway at Loch Snipe outside the village of Coylton.Two helicopters and a number of fire engines, ambulances and police vehicles raced to the fishing loch - which is located about five miles from Ayr on the B742.A Scottish Fire and Rescue boat was seen

seriously injured after three women jumped from a car and attacked him in a residential Scots street. The three thugs assaulted their victim outside a home in Florence Street, Greenock, at around 10.30pm on Saturday, September 26.

Court in Edinburgh heard Singh, 54, was brought back to Scotland to face prosecution after being detained by authorities in Canada for an alleged shoplifting offence. A judge told Singh: “You have pled guilty to the rape of a 12-year-old child in 2016.

Middle East on drug charges, have raised more than £12,000 to support his family.We told how Lothian man Conor Howard, known to pals as 'Milky', had been arrested in Corfu when flying over to visit his mum in August.He had been arrested on an Interpol notice after Qatar authorities say they found drugs on the 27-year-old when passing through the Middle Eastern state last October on the way back from a work trip to Australia.His devastated friends and family say a clean cannabis grinder was found

sexual and physical abuse that left them permanently injured and suicidal.Victims say they were regularly attacked by staff members at remote Fornethy House after being told they were going to a holiday camp.Detectives are investigating allegations of sexual and physical assaults at the girls-only facility which was run by Glasgow’s local authority in Kilry, Angus.Poorly youngsters from working- class families were taken to the school 90 miles from the city for “convalescent” breaks after it

conviction quashed on appeal. Glaswegian Adnan Ahmed - who called himself Addy A-game in secretly-filmed videos posted online - was convicted of threatening and abusive behaviour for approaching several young women, causing them fear and alarm.

Police are searching for a missing Scots teenager who vanished earlier this morning. Rachel Allan, 13, was last seen at around 12.30am today at her home in Paisley.

raped an 80 year-old woman in her own home has been locked up for eight years. John Laming struck last Christmas Eve just 12 days after he had been freed from jail.

Police are hunting a sick flasher who indecently exposed himself near a Scots school. An investigation has been launched after the man was seen near Tayport Primary School in Fife at around 11am on Wednesday.

tumour to “light up”, allowing her surgeon to remove more of it than would normally have been possible.Catherine, from East Kilbride, had been having headaches and, in agony, went to Hairmyres Hospital in April 2019.After a brain scan, she was shocked to learn her growing confusion and headaches were caused by the most aggressive type of nervous system tumour, a grade 4 astrocytoma.Catherine was transferred to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.

cancer since February 2019.The cancer affects just one in 250,000 children. It affects bone marrow and, without transplant, Adeline's bone marrow failure could turn into acute myeloid leukaemia, an aggressive cancer she won’t be able to cope with alongside her other diagnosis.Last night, the sick youngster, from Inverness, was on her way to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow to be treated for possible sepsis.Her mum Steph, 26, said: “Even a cold could mean Adeline could die.

mum has lost eight stone for the second time after comfort eating to deal with eight miscarriages before finally having a baby boy. Mum-of-two Sandra Malcolmson tipped the scales at a whopping 21 stones after years of unhealthy eating and in 2017, at her heaviest, she suffered four heartbreaking miscarriages.