Two Scots ‘puppy farms’ raided by cops with 80 animals taken into care by animal welfare chiefs

car and fleeing the scene.Cara McCarthy, 24, was left in “hysterics” when a black car being driven erratically ploughed into her Audi, near Barrhead, East Renfrewshire - leaving both vehicles badly damaged.Police are still hunting the occupants of the Vauxhall Omega - who ran off without trying to help Cara and left the wrecked car at the scene.Cara, from Barrhead, said: “They didn’t try to communicate with me at all.

Cockapoo  puppy who 'works' in a secondary school has helped children struggling with anxiety after the lockdown. Willow, aged 15 weeks, attends Glenrothes High School in Glenrothes, Fife, from Monday to Friday, and in the two weeks she has been there the school has seen attendance improve.

Kaleem Aftab British film “Limbo,” a wry refugee drama, directed by Edinburgh-born director Ben Sharrock and produced by Spain’s Irune Gurtubai, won the Golden Pyramid for best film at the Cairo Film Festival on Thursday.Told in a pleasing deadpan style, “Limbo” recounts the story of a Syrian musician, played by the BIFA nominated rising star Amir El-Masry, who is placed on a Scottish island when awaiting his request for asylum to be processed.

missing Scots dad has sparked a re-appeal from police probing his disappearance. We told how Graham Hilton Brady was last seen by his family on the evening of Tuesday, December 1 at his home in Carluke, South Lanarkshire.

police - because it is not “essential travel”. The Scout Scotland Santa Run in Stewarton, which has been running for decades, was halted after officers said the sleigh ride through the town breached lockdown rules.

police officer narrowly escaped serious injury after a knife-wielding man attempted to stab him with a blade. Cops were sent to a property on Abbey Park Avenue in St Andrews, Fife, at around 1.50pm on Tuesday, December 8.

Christmas. Hundreds of pounds and food were snatched during the break in at Moray Food Plus in Elgin on Sunday morning.

bulldog has given birth to an astonishing 13 puppies, equalling what the owner believes to be a world record. Wee trouper Roxy was due to have between four and six pups - but when she started squeezing they just kept coming.

gangsters targeted mostly at young men. Organised crime groups, mostly from overseas, are luring people to commit sex acts on camera.

Cops have uncovered a drug s stash worth up to £1million in an abandoned bingo hall in Inverclyde. A c annabis cultivation worth an estimated street value of £600K to £1million was seized from the scene.

dog died in a hit-and-run in South Lanarkshire. Beloved dog Jerry was killed close to 3 Glasgow Road in Chapleton on November 20.

puppy farms in East Ayrshire.A total of 80  animals  including dogs, puppies, cats and kittens were seized from the addresses during a major operation on Friday, November 27.The news comes as animal welfare charity the Scottish SPCA said it had launched 78 investigations into puppy farming in October alone.Now a spokesperson for the police has confirmed that one person has been arrested following the incident.The raids were part of Operation Delphin - a specialist task force set up to catch

airman Corrie McKeague claims police mistook CCTV footage of her son for a woman in a miniskirt.Nicola Urquhart says the unpublished shots prove he walked out alive from the area where he was last seen.She was shown footage by cold-case cops focusing on a vehicle seen in a grainy film.She is convinced it shows Corrie walking away from bins which officers believe he climbed into before being emptied into the back of a refuse lorry.Police believe the person captured leaving the area, alongside two

torched outside a Scots home. Firefighters from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service were spotted at around 6am this morning, November 27, on Duntocher Road in Clydebank.

coronavirus outbreak at a Scots nursing home branded “weak” for its Covid-19 response. Mavisbank Care Home in Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, confirmed the deaths and said 11 staff members and seven residents remain positive for the virus following an outbreak in recent weeks.

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puppy farm in Perthshire after being discovered in appalling conditions. Three pregnant bitches were among the animals rescued by animal welfare officers from the property, along with three litters of puppies.