Thug who murdered his friend dies behind bars at Lanarkshire jail

Crazed torturer Colin Coats has been hit with more jail time after being caught with a mobile phone.

A murderer who killed a pensioner by repeatedly stabbing her in the neck with a pair of scissors in her own home has admitted battering a fellow prisoner with a snooker cue.

The sister of a teenage girl who was murdered and set on fire was terrified she would be the killer's next victim after he showed her the body, a new TV documentary has revealed.

Emotional tributes are pouring in for a Scots pensioner who died following a crash at a retail park.

Actor Martin Compston has been given odds of 50/1 to become the next James Bond, joining fellow Scottish thespians including Richard Madden and Sam Heughan on a bookies’ list of potential names to fill the iconic role. Mr Compston, the Greenock-born Line of Duty star, has been given the quote by betting firm Skybet after being tipped by fans to take over from Daniel Craig.

Cadbury has announced its first ever range of vegan chocolate bars - and Scots will be able to get their hands on them from as early as next month.

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James Bond film, No Time to Die, has finally hit cinemas across the UK and it's Daniel Craig 's last stint as the 007 agent. With Sean Connery often touted as the best incarnation of all time, the experts at the language learning app Babbel have explained how at first the author Ian Fleming wasn't sure about his accent.

iOS - Android Joe's family are concerned for his wellbeing.Inspector Morven Sutherland, based in Dumbarton, said: "We're appealing for anyone who has seen Joe to contact us."Our enquiries have established Joe may be in the Uddingston area, but we are keeping an open mind so anyone who has any information should let us know."Anyone with information should contact Police Scotland on 101 quoting incident number 3195 of 29 September.

iOS - Android Wishaw MSP Clare Adamson said: “People are struggling even with the uplift. Yet the Scottish Tories have the temerity to defend this abominable cut."They are failing in a basic duty as MSPs to advocate for our most vulnerable constituents.

iOS - Android Robby McCann, 20, who won the Print Administration, followed in his father’s footsteps by joining him at CCL Labels in East Kilbride.He enjoys learning many new skills and the variety of the work and once qualified wants to get involved in the company’s graphic design department.He said his print apprenticeship offers a "great opportunity to learn new things and the variety of the work".

died behind bars. Darrin Callander punched, kicked and stamped on a frail pal Brian Scott and left him to die at a property in Dumfries in April 2013.

James Bond star Daniel Craig has revealed his joy at getting to film in the Scottish Highlands - and how he coped with our notorious midges. The 53-year-old filmed scenes for new Bond flick No Time To Die over the summer.The film, the 25th Bond release, features thrilling action scenes, including one which shows a car chase resulting in vehicles flying through the air.

The plot for “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” adapted from William Shakespeare’s classic play, is almost too familiar to waste space for explanation. Even so, the basic premise sees Lord Macbeth (Denzel Washington), a well-respected soldier, spurred by three witches’ prophecy and the aspirations of his wife, the Machiavellian Lady Macbeth (Frances McDormand), transfixed by an ambition for the Scottish crown.

iOS - Android Health chiefs say that they hope to have cleared the waiting list by March 2023, and added that services are still reeling from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.The figures have been described as "a crisis" by politicians. Pam Duncan-Glancy, the Labour list MSP, told Lanarkshire Live : "These figures need to be a wake-up call for the Scottish Government.

iOS - Android The global pandemic also presented significant challenges to supporting people faced with homelessness.Changes in legislation to prevent landlords evicting tenants for rent arrears were also introduced across Scotland in response to COVID-19.

iOS - Android This can cause trains to overshoot signals or platforms and affect signalling systems - making it harder to track where trains are on the network.From this week until December, Scotland's Railway's fleet of specialist rail-head treatment trains will be in operation around-the-clock, using high-pressure water jets to clean tracks before coating them with a special adhesive.At a further 110 locations across the network, special "traction gel applicators" have been installed to help

iOS - Android It will offer sit in, take away, drive-thru, deliveries and mobile order and will complement Hamilton's existing Starbucks drive thru on Palace Grounds retail park.Starbucks latest drive-thru is being brought to the town again by Glasgow-based OCO Westend, one of the firms longest licensed partners in the UK, who recently opened another new store in Polmadie.Recent growth means OCO Westend, owned by JJ O'Hara, now employs 273 people across 13 stores in Scotland including Rutherglen

The Mirror reports that the news came following a mammogram she booked in July on an annual recall after last year found a lump which proved to be a cluster of benign micro-cysts.

behind bars for the rest of their lives. Teenager Dean Ryan and his older brother Steven were convicted of killing the 34-year-old Glasgow procurator fiscal in 1994.