A woman who used an electric dog collar on a toddler during a "cruel" catalogue of abuse has been jailed for three years and four months. Lanna Monaghan had acquired the device, which can deliver electric shocks, after witnessing its apparent effectiveness, the High Court in Glasgow heard. The 34-year-old, [...]

Police are investigating the deaths of a male and female in separate incidents at the T in the Park music festival. A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "The deaths are unexplained at this time and work is ongoing to establish the exact circumstances surrounding both. "We are unable to comment further [...]

Labour and SNP figures consider legal action against former PM to ban him from office over role in Iraq war. Senior figures from Labour and the Scottish National party are considering calls for legal action against Tony Blair if the former prime minister faces severe criticisms from the long-awaited inquiry [...]

Police are combing a crime scene in Glasgow as they hunt a scar-faced man who stabbed a pensioner to death.   Officers are looking over Tobago Place and Green Street where the victim 76-year-old John Baker lived. Police could be seen probing stanks and large areas of grass with search equipment [...]

THE under-20 Scotland squad member is accused of abusing the couple on their wedding night, and calling one of the couple's relatives a 'dirty lesbian'.   SCOTTISH Rugby Union chiefs are investigating claims that one of their under-20 squad made gay hate remarks to a newly married same-sex couple. The [...]

An Edinburgh computer hacker and dark web drug dealer has been sentenced to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and pay £17,000 compensation at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. The court heard that 26 year old David Trail set up and administered the Topix2 website, an online black market site, which [...]

A FRAUDSTER family who conned £1.3million from vulnerable pensioners have been jailed for a total of 24 years. The cruel Mohammed clan used a Glasgow newsagents as a front to cold call 40 victims across England and the Channel Islands.  They posed as bank security staff and convinced OAPs to [...]

A ban on legal highs in Edinburgh is responsible for a drop in crime, according to a report due to go before Edinburgh City Council. The news comes as police crackdown on sellers following the introduction of the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016. The ban was introduced in the capital a year before [...]

A man charged with careless driving has walked free from court after the police forgot to produce key evidence. George Drummond, 38, was said to have driven without due care and attention and into the path of another vehicle. However, the case at Forfar’s Justice of the Peace Court was [...]

Experts have questioned whether plans to transform the way Scotland locks up women will lower the prison population. The closure of Cornton Vale begins this year. It has a capacity of 375 and will be replaced by an 80-bed jail and five regional units holding 20 women each. Canada closed [...]