Woman and four kids trapped after boat fills with water on Scots loch sparking helicopter rescue

Police have launched an attempted murder probe after the terrifying incident happened on Longbar Avenue in Beith at around 4.15am on Monday, May 24. A 33-year-old man was asleep inside at the time of the blaze and he had to jump from the upstairs window to avoid the flames.

Kilwinning on Saturday morning. Police raced to the scene in Ladyford Avenue at around 2.30am after locals reported a noisy disturbance in the street involving youths.

murdered a vulnerable young man by attacking him and throwing him into a river has been handed a life sentence. Sebastian Smith, from Hawick, who was previously known as Luke Greenland, was found guilty of killing tragic Joe Pooley in August 2018 and must now serve a minimum of 21 years behind bars.

the Sun of the moment wife Nicola opened the bedroom door and shouted ‘fire’.He said: “I ran out and the whole hall was orange. I managed to run out with my wife then went back in for my son who, of course, never heard anything.

Police say concern is growing for the safety of a woman who vanished overnight in a Fife town. Kathleen Ritchie was last seen at around 8.20pm on Friday, May 21, in the Annandale Gardens area of Glenrothes.

school girl. The 11-year-old was targeted in Caberston Road, Walkerburn, at around 8.55am on Wednesday, May 19.

Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletter.A troubled 20-year-old “borrowed” his dad’s van to give a friend a lift home but was caught driving while more than three times the legal booze limit.Luke Macdonald, who had also flouted a curfew restricting him to his home, was spared jail when he appeared for sentence at Perth Sheriff Court this week.Instead, he was given the “direct alternative” of

doctors gave him just a 20 per cent chance of survival and advised his mum many times to terminate. His tiny heart and lungs were being crushed by his intestines, which had escaped through a hole in his abdominal wall and into his chest cavity.

Gail Porter has said she is 'ready to come home to Scotland' after a traumatic year.The 49-year-old recently lost her dad and has made plans to come home this weekend.

beach. A frantic three-hour long search was carried out after a panicked local thought his board was found ‘washed up’ on Whitesands beach in Dunbar yesterday.

cannabis and a stash of weapons after pulling over a car in a Scots city. Police stopped the black BMW 1 series around 11.15pm on the eastbound section of the A90, Kingsway West in Dundee on Friday night.

cannabis farm inside. Police were alerted the blaze on Monday at the Manse on the Square in Lumsden- a small village in rural Aberdeenshire.

police station in Midlothian. The words were seen scrawled across the Dalkeith station alongside the slur 'ACAB' which stands for 'all cops are b*******'.The damage follows a string of similar incidents after a Channel 5 documentary on the murder of teenager Jodi Jones, who's body was found near her home in Easthouses, Midlothian in 2003.

Cops have launched a probe after a van was torched in an early morning blaze in a Scots town, destroying thousands of pounds worth of tools. The Ford Transit Tipper was targeted in the early hours of Thursday, May 6, in Larkhall - and cops believe a cyclist may help them crack the case.

Emergency services raced to the reports of a house fire in the Dores area near Inverness in the Highlands at around 10pm on Monday night.

Scots munro after a smart watch was used to raise the alarm - via America. A member of the group used the hi-tech gadget's emergency SOS setting which triggered an alarm in Houston, Texas, before authorities were notified in Scotland.

Fife this morning. Emergency services raced to the scene after the Stagecoach vehicle went on fire on Carnegie Drive, near the Tesco Superstore in Dunfermline.

CalMac for £97 million, with an initial completion date set for 2018. But the vessels, referred to as 801 and 802, are not now expected to be completed until 2022 and 2023 respectively, with the cost having almost doubled.

Britain's Got Talent winner Jai McDowall has teamed up with a Scots college to record a charity record for ex Rangers player Kris Boyd's charity. Kris set up the charity in 2018 after his brother Scott tragically took his own life at the age of 27.