Teenage girl, 17, allegedly 'raped' in Greenock as police launch probe

Police have issued CCTV showing a woman last seen leaving a hospital in Edinburgh on Saturday morning.

Nineteen activists have been arrested ahead of plans to disrupt the Epsom Derby on Saturday, police said.

A heartbroken mum has paid tribute to her daughter who died in after getting into difficult while swimming with friends. Kirsty Madden said her 15-year-old daughter Erin was "capable of anything" and had her "whole life ahead of her" before her death in an emotional tribute posted online today.

A wiley police dog managed to track down a missing Scots pensioner with dementia in woodland after the alarm was raised by his family.

A taxi firm has been forced to respond after footage circulated on social media allegedly showing one of its drivers holding a passenger at gunpoint.

A teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 21-year-old man died on Wednesday evening.

More than two years after it launched an investigation of actor Armie Hammer over sexual assault allegations, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said today that the actor won’t be charged.

Homlessness campaigners are demanding an investigation into the evacuation of 40 Africans from a dangerous “building site” blocks of flats.

The death of two teenagers who tragically took their own lives at a Scots young offenders institution are set to be examined by a sheriff after a five year wait. Katie Allan was just 21 when she died at Polmont Young Offenders Institution, near Falkirk, in June 2018 while serving a sentence for a driving offence.

Police officers investigating a deliberate car fire say it was only luck that nobody was hurt.

Two teenagers have been arrested and charged following a fire at Ayr’s Station Hotel.

The family of a young woman who died after medics failed to spot a silent condition that kills thousands of Scots every year have spoken out two decades after her death.

Police Scotland could struggle to find a replacement for its outgoing chief Iain Livingstone after his bombshell comments about the force being institutionally racist, it has been claimed.

A teenage boy has tragically died on the opening day of a music festival. Police confirmed a 16-year-old died at the In It Together festival in Old Park Farm, Neath Port Talbot, on Friday.

Scotland’s police union has accused the outgoing chief constable of making cops’ jobs harder by branding the force ­institutionally racist.

A police officer involved in the arrest of Sheku Bayoh has denied ever wanting to join the BNP. The pre-recorded testimony of Alan Paton, who has since retired from Police Scotland, was played to the inquiry into the death of Mr Bayoh, which occurred in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in 2015 while he was being detained by police.

The chief constable of Scotland's police force has accepted his public admission that the service is "institutionally racist and discriminatory" could have come sooner.

Police are appealing for the public's help to trace a man who has not been seen in more than two weeks.

A frantic search has been launched for a man who vanished over three days ago.

An urgent search is ongoing for a Scottish schoolboy who disappeared five days ago.