Sister of Grenfell Tower fraudster fails in bid to keep heroin dealer brother's Edinburgh flat

Ulster have beaten Edinburgh 22 points to 19 in their Guinness Pro14 semi-final in the Scottish capital tonight.

Edinburgh Airport. Sean Clerkin, 59, was arrested by cops at 7.30am at his home this morning, after an incident at Scotland's largest airport on August 20.

gin fans. The Old Curiosity distillery has launched its first non-alcoholic spirit, created with six natural gin botanicals to deliver a "guilt-free tipple that perfectly captures the genuine flavour of a real gin".

drug dealing has been jailed.Morag Yorston, from Dundee, was today locked up for five years and 11 months after pleading guilty to supplying heroin and cocaine and being involved in serious organised crime in July last year.Yorston failed to appear at the High Court in Glasgow for sentencing in September 2019.

EDINBURGH, Scotland -- Francesca Moody is spending August the way she always does: in darkened rooms in Edinburgh, watching some of the best new theater and comedy the world has to offer.All that’s missing are the hundreds of thousands of other people who usually do the same in Scotland's capital.“It’s strange to be in a city that you’re so used to being saturated with culture and arts and people,” Moody, a theater producer, said backstage at the city’s shuttered Traverse Theatre.Usually the

jail.Scott McAllister and his accomplices were arrested by police following evidence from a supergrass.The 46-year-old was behind the plot to bring shipments of Class A and B drugs, which also included cannabis and amphetamine, north of the Border from Liverpool.McAllister, from Cumbernauld, was jailed for 14 years and four months after admitting trafficking offences at the city’s Crown Court.But while fellow Scots gang members have been transferred to prisons closer to home, McAllister’s

It sounds like a backhanded compliment, but Get Duked! – which was titled Boyz in the Wood until a few weeks ago – is much better than it initially seems.

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.

Edinburgh beauty spot as cops locked down the area.Emergency services, including officers from Police Scotland and the Scottish Ambulance Service, raced to the scene this afternoon, August 27, at around 1.20pm.Cops and ambulance services were seen lining the streets next to Arthur’s Seat and Holyrood Park.Sadly a body was found on Salisbury Crags on Queens Drive in the capital.A Police Scotland spokesperson told the Daily Record: “Police were called around 1.20pm today, August 27.“A body was

Edinburgh. Police and ambulance services are currently in attendance at the beauty spot near Holyrood Park.

toddler has celebrated her third birthday wearing a special dress in tribute to her sister who died of rare condition when she was the same age.Summer Pipe turned three on Sunday and wore a specially-crafted dress which was printed with one of the only pictures every taken of her with her big sister Meadow, who passed away in 2018.Meadow battled for life for three-and-a-half years after being born with an incurable blood disease and Microcephaly disorder - a rare condition which causes

interactive online map will see Scots add their recommendations for outdoor and cultural trips, as well as food and drink, books and music - to help inspire everyone to discover what there is to do across Scotland.Robert Wight, Editor of The Scots Magazine, said: “While Scots have crowned Edinburgh ‘Capital of Adventure’ - which is a very worthy winner - we have launched our fantastic  ‘Adventure Is On Your Doorstep’ map to show people that wherever you are in Scotland, and whatever you’re

Alex Neil warns voters will reject independence if it means rejoining the EU and erecting "customs barriers" at the border. The ex Scottish Government minister was the only one in Nicola Sturgeon's cabinet to support Brexit.

Edinburgh Waverley Station in response to an ongoing incident. A number of streets have been sealed off and trains may be delayed as a result of the incident.

Edinburgh. Officers were today seen standing guard at a wooded area in the Craigmillar area of the capital after the grim discovery was made near Old Dalkeith Road around 1pm on Saturday.Police Scotland are treating the death as unexplained and have also closed off the nearby Craigmillar Recycling Centre.

Edinburgh, sparking a major police investigation. At around 1pm on Saturday the man was found dead near Old Dalkeith Road, in the Craigmillar area of the city.

Scottish Government, Public Health Scotland, Citizens Advice Scotland and Shelter Scotland have collaborated to publish a resource for private tenants during the coronavirus pandemic. The Private Rented Sector Tenant Support booklet contains advice and information about tenants rights in the private sector.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Edinburgh TV Festival’s advisory chair Patrick Holland has said that this year’s event has been transformed into a popup television channel after the industry’s annual trip to Scotland was scotched by the coronavirus pandemic.Holland, whose day job is running BBC Two and BBC Four, said he and the festival’s full-time team have curated a four-day event in the same way he shapes the schedules of the channels he oversees.

campaigner has been branded "despicable" for his latest stunt which saw him unveil an anti-English banner at Edinburgh Airport.Sean Clerkin of the Action for Scotland activist group was condemned by politicians and aviation authorities after he yesterday unfurled a sign proclaiming "England Get Out of Scotland" close to the terminal at the country's busiest flight hub.The campaigner, who has a history of staging small-scale demonstrations, said his group wanted the border between Scotland and

Eilidh MacLeod have told a court of the devastating impact the bombing has had on their lives. Roddy and Marion MacLeod - whose talented daughter was just 14 when she died - said they are living with “anger, fear resentment and heartbreak.” The couple’s heartbreaking statement was read out at the sentencing hearing of jihadi Hashem Abedi at the Old Bailey in London.