Top Scots footy scout fined and banned from driving after boozing while on furlough

mum has vowed to fight to see her little boy grow up after being given less than 12 months to live - just weeks after being told she had beaten cancer.

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,

mum has started a petition after she was banned from TikTok for posting video of her breastfeeding her baby.  Emma O'Donnell, 33, posted the helpful video of her feeding five-month-old baby Harry to show how to breastfeed discreetly after receiving messages from anxious new mums who were unable to access breastfeeding help or classes due to Covid-19.

blind in one eye and in excruciating pain after a tap water parasite burrowed into her eye. Charlotte Clarkson was working as a summer camp director in Canada when she picked up the horrendous infection but waited months to get a proper diagnosis.

Amazon office was evacuated as bomb disposal team moved in to deal with a 'suspicious package'. Police taped off the Dunfermline depot having been called to reports of the package at around 3.25pm on Sunday September 27  The Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit then moved in and 'made it safe'.

Amazon warehouse has been locked down after a ‘suspicious package’ was discovered. Emergency services were called to the scene in Dunfermline, Fife, at around 3.25pm on Sunday.

Glasgow and beyond.Some of the thought-provoking notes have been shared on Twitter by TV host Calum Best and ex-Love Island contestant Malin Andersson.Nicole, from Drumchapel, said: “I took the start of lockdown pretty bad.

miscarriages. Jodi Gray, who is more than 16 weeks pregnant, began having contractions on Tuesday afternoon and called the maternity unit at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.The 25-year-old was told medics would not be able to see her in person because she was just days short of the 17 week cut off point.

breast cancer just weeks after giving birth. Rebecca Broughton, who is just 26, has challenged herself to see 30 and watch her two baby sons' first days at school.

self-isolation rules.

cocaine bragged about his champagne lifestyle after jumping bail and fleeing Scotland.Security consultant ­Christopher Lawson posted photos of his jet-setting around the world as he spent three years on the run from justice.Lawson, who was shot in the line of duty in Afghanistan, regularly updated his social media with pictures from countries including Tanzania, Cambodia, the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates.But he was arrested at an airport when he returned to the UK from Dubai in June

criminal convictions during the bitter strike of the 80s are set to be pardoned.An independent review established by the Scottish Government has proposed the move, which would also cover miners who have since died.The review team, chaired by John Scott QC, reported that most of the miners’ actions were unlikely to lead to ­prosecution today and said those affected believed they were punished in a “grossly excessive manner”.The report concluded: “It is hard to disagree.”The year-long nationwide

bigoted tongue.Karen Mason, 49, verbally abused people in Bo'ness, West Lothian, “almost daily” for nearly two-and-a-half years.Many of her targets were neighbours of her elderly mother.In one particularly nasty outburst she called a man “a homosexual, flag-waving Jew”, a court was told.Prosecutor Kristina Kelly said: “Comments directed at other neighbours included, ‘That’s the black b******’.”Falkirk Sheriff Court heard Mason’s behaviour got so bad that a couple living in Links Road, Bo’ness,

pervert was snared by cyber crime cops for possessing child sex abuse images after he accessed sick videos and photos through WhatsApp.

style icons by young Scottish females. Rihanna, Kylie Jenner and singer Dua Lipa were also voted into the top five celebrity fashion favourites, according to new research by Laybuy.

online has been branded “a danger to women” after he returned to a dating app following his release from jail.Pervert Steven McGinley joined Tinder just weeks after he was let out of jail for attacking a woman on their first date.They had arranged the meeting on an online dating app but after tricking his victim into a flat, he sexually assaulted and spat on her.The victim had to flee to a nearby chip shop to get help after escaping his clutches.McGinley, 35, was sentenced to 15 months inside –

missing man after his work vehicle was found in a Scots woodland. Andrew Gardiner was reported missing from his home in Dumfries and Galloway having been last seen at around 11am on Monday.

Scots tot left his family hallway looking like a ‘murder scene’ after smearing melted red wax over the halls and carpet.Archie Lees had swiped one of his big sister’s makeup brushes and dipped it into a wax burner before ‘redecorating’ the room with fragrant red goo.Not content with just using a six-metre stretch of the wall, the one-year-old also flung dollops of wax onto the carpet at the family home in Fettercairn, Aberdeenshire.Mum Emma Smith first became aware that her ‘feral’ child was up

mum sought a second opinion.On June 1, doctors told Karen and Andrew Stirrat that their four-year-old son Caleb only had months left to live when his atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumour (ATRT) returned weeks after he had been given the all clear.Refusing to give up hope, the devastated Clydebank family searched for treatment for their son.Within days they found an oncologist in Manchester who agreed to put Caleb on a clinical trial - after the growth was removed.Glasgow Royal Hospital for Children

Covid-19. The cases were detected at Parkdale Care Home in Perthshire.