Sick Scots wrestling referee sent graphic sexual messages to 'young girls' he tried to groom online

The daughter of panto star Andy Gray has spoken of her emotional return to the stage without her late dad.

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road and overturning his boss's van in a field, has dodged jail.Ross Cochrane, 56, was over three times the legal limit on a Tuesday afternoon when the incident occurred on a country lane between Myothill Road and Karries Court, near Little Denny Reservoir, Stirlingshire.Falkirk Sheriff Court heard (on Thursday, September 30th) that about 12.15 pm a walker, named as Claire Jack, noticed a white Citroen Berlingo van coming "at speed" towards her along the lane.Prosecutor Sarah Smith said: "The

suicidal racist doused his flat in petrol with the intention of setting it on fire. Garry Smith was dragged out of the ground floor flat before he was able to torch it and endanger the other residents of the block.

mum who lost her teenage son has started her own funeral care business in an effort to give added comfort to anyone grieving the loss of a child. Samantha Merrilees, 41, had her world shattered when her son Scott Martin took his own life on New Years' Day this year.

pensioner Martin Marley followed a vulnerable young woman, pestering her to get inside his car. Marley, from Balloch, West Dunbartonshire, who admitted repeatedly pursuing the teenager, standing outside her home and blowing her kisses, asks her to take a lift saying: “Do you trust me?”.

assaulting teenage schoolgirls with his drumsticks, subjecting a sixth-form girl to sex-talk, and engaging in a months-long "illicit affair" with a 17-year-old girl pupil. James Clark, a former cowhand who joined the services when he was 20 and rose to be chief instructor for pipes and drums for the entire British Army, had taught drumming at the "traditional" Perthshire school since 2012.

campervan with their dogs. Victoria MacDonald, 28, and Scott Ross, 32, lived in a swanky three-bed pad which even had a ballroom - but found the pressure of their careers was bringing them down.

Edinburgh hotel.Emergency services were called to the scene at around 5am on Saturday after the alarm was raised in the Grassmarket area of the capital. Police have confirmed that a 22-year-old was rushed to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for treatment however his current condition is not known.

dogs sent well wishes to a brave cancer tot in a series of adorable video clips. We previously told how four-year-old Archie Galloway was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a cancer of the white blood cells, in March 2020, after it was first thought he had a bad case of tonsillitis.

Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletterTHREE teenagers from Scotland have made it to the final of a UK driving competition – despite not being old enough to hold a driving licence.Millar McGovern, 13, from Dunfermline, Liam Shields, 14, of Cumbernauld, and Scott Simpson, 15, from Eyemouth, have all been awarded a place in the final of the Young Driver Challenge 2021, having beaten off stiff competition from hundreds of others.The contest is run by

drugs after cops spotted him “sweating profusely” in Edinburgh’s Waverley train station. Lee Brunton was approached by officers in the station who suspected he and a pal were “under the influence of something”.The 28-year-old was searched and 104 benzodiazepine tablets were recovered from his rucksack.Police also found four screwdrivers in the bag and Brunton, a painter and decorator, was arrested.

missing Scots pensioner last seen two weeks ago. Graham McCausland has been reported missing from his home address in Elgin and was last seen around 8pm on Tuesday September 7.

Tesco manager who trawled social media accounts to find local children he could bombard with sexual images has avoided a prison sentence. Paedophile supermarket boss Steven Gibson trawled countless Facebook pages to find random young girls who lived near his home.

cars in a text message he sent to former workers. Out-of-pocket staff claim they are owed thousands of pounds in wages after his building firm went bust with debts of almost £1million.

Love Island Scot Harry Young has returned to his day job as a car salesman after stepping away from the limelight. The 24-year-old, who entered the ITV2 dating show's Casa Amor, is a product consultant at at Arnold Clark in Motherwell.Sharing a snap of his Arnold Clark business card, the salesman joked: "So back to the grind."Swipe up to shop our stock or DM for appointment." The Glaswegian hunk entered the dating show after being discovered by ITV2 bosses on the dating app Tinder.

jailed today. Jack Ferry, 24, grabbed Good Samaritan Emma Laird, 27, by the hair and pulled it, punched her on the head, and repeatedly attempted to land further blows on her.Falkirk Sheriff Court heard that Miss Laird and three pals - one them Ferry's cousin - had been socialising in a garden in the St Ninians area of Stirling in May (2021).