A man who stabbed a former Mr Scotland bodybuilding champion to death has been jailed for 14-and-a-half years. Steven Kirkwood, 44, stabbed Michael O'Hanlon four times during an incident at HK Autotek garage in Stevenston, North Ayrshire, on 25 July 2016. The 45-year-old died from blood loss. Kirkwood was originally [...]

A man has appeared in court in connection with an explosives incident in Paisley. A bomb disposal team carried out a controlled explosion at about 06:30 on Saturday. Part of Well street had been closed overnight. Allan Hamilton, 35, from Paisley faced a single charge under the Explosive Substances Act [...]

Former Rangers owner Craig Whyte has been cleared of taking over the Glasgow football club by fraud in May 2011. He was acquitted by a jury following a seven-week trial at the High Court in Glasgow. The 46-year-old was also found not guilty of a second charge under the Companies [...]

Singer Paolo Nutini has made a second appearance in court to deny a charge of drink driving. The 30-year-old is accused of driving under the influence of alcohol while more than twice the legal limit in Paisley on 21 February. He entered a not guilty plea at the city's sheriff [...]

Former TV weatherman Fred Talbot has been found guilty of historical sex offences against boys he took on school trips to Scotland. At Lanark Sheriff Court, he was convicted of seven charges of indecent assault in the 1970s and early 1980s. Talbot was a teacher at a school in the [...]

A 37-year-old man is being treated for facial wounds after being shot in the face while driving his car in Glasgow city centre. The incident happened at about 00:10 on Craighall Road. Medical staff describe the victim's condition as stable. The eastbound slip road to junction 16 of the M8 [...]

A husband and wife have been found guilty of fraud after the longest trial in UK criminal history. Edwin McLaren, from Quarriers Village in Renfrewshire, was found guilty of property fraud totalling about £1.6m. The 52-year-old, who was said to be the "brains behind the scheme", was convicted of 29 [...]

Eastern European crime gangs are repeatedly forcing trafficked women into sexual exploitation and sham marriages, a BBC investigation found. The programme, Humans for Sale, found one Slovakian girl who had been trafficked to Glasgow three times. Many of the women were forced into sham marriages with men, mainly from Pakistan, [...]

Police have released CCTV images of a man they want to speak to in connection with a "terrifying" assault on a young woman in Glasgow city centre. The 20-year-old was attacked near the Revolution Bar in Renfield Street at about 00:25 on Saturday 18 March. She was approached by the [...]

The death of a 30-year-old man in Paisley is being treated as murder. The man was discovered by police attending a disturbance in Argyle Street at about 15:35 on Saturday. Another man, aged 37, was also found with serious injuries and is in a "serious but stable" condition in hospital. [...]