24 h. ago Residents urged to close windows and doors as firefighters tackle huge blaze at storage unit

45 firefighters were called to the warehouse in Middleton

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3 d. ago Child Q: Officer who strip searched girl thought she was ‘doing the right thing’

The 15-year-old was strip searched by officers in Hackney, east London, on December 2020 after being wrongly being accused of carrying cannabis.

Society

3 d. ago Cost of rural crime in Scotland falls by a third as countryside unites to tackle organised and serious crime, NFU Mutual reveals

The cost of rural crime in Scotland fell by 33% to an estimated £1.2m in 2024, highlighting the positive effects of co-ordinated action against organised and serious crime in the countryside, new figures from NFU Mutual reveal.

Events

3 d. ago Sheriff notes Hogg’s ‘compliance’ with order in domestic abuse case

A sheriff said that said no further review of the community payback order would take place.

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7 d. ago Bloody Scotland: Full line up of crime writing festival revealed, including author behind hit TV show

Bloody Scotland will take place in Stirling in September

Culture

7 d. ago Sheku Bayoh Inquiry to consider application for recusal of chairman

The Scottish Police Federation, Pc Craig Walker and Nicole Short submitted the application.

Politics

8 d. ago How crime boss Jamie Daniel's death led to fresh violence in long

Crime Reporter Norman Silvester's series on the history of Scotland's notorious gangland war today examines the death of crime boss Jamie Daniel and how it led to a fresh wave of violence.

Events

9 d. ago MoD ‘dishonest’ to call 1994 Chinook crash an accident, say families

RAF Chinook ZD576 crashed in foggy weather on June 2 1994 on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland.

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9 d. ago Academics ‘branded transphobic’ by own union have discrimination claims rejected

Dr Deirdre O’Neill and Professor Michael Wayne said the UCU’s public opposition to them amounted to unlawful discrimination.

Events

1 week ago John Swinney’s youth violence summit must deliver real change not just talk

Record View says grieving families and concerned communities demand urgent action—not promises—as Scotland confronts a rise in knife crime and school violence.

Politics

2 w. ago Man who baited birds of prey with rat poison in landowner feud sentenced

Clive Burgoyne, 38, left four poisoned pheasant carcasses on a neighbouring estate in Angus.

Politics

2 w. ago Sex crime cops 'at breaking point' as one officer left handling 176 cases

Scotland’s sex crime units are on the brink with officers handling hundreds of cases at time – and victims are paying the price.

Events

2 w. ago Deadly Lyons gang set to seek bloody revenge over killings of key lieutenants in Spain

The crime clan -one of the deadliest in Scotland - has been left reeling since the double murder.

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2 w. ago Child aged 10 found with knife amid concerns of ‘youth violence epidemic’

In 2024, 91 young people were found to have a knife by Scottish police

Events

2 w. ago Cops probe hate crime on Isle of Arran after Pride decorations removed

Police Scotland are looking into a hate crime on Isle of Arran.

Events

2 w. ago Inside the "strange and weird" world of Dept. Q with Edinburgh's Chloe Pirrie

Surreal, strange, weird... what happens when you set a Scandi noir crime drama in Scotland.

Politics

3 w. ago Dept Q review – this excellent crime drama is a grimy, gothic treat

After getting another officer killed, a detective is forced to head up a cold-case department in a dank basement. This Scotland-based adaptation of Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Danish crime novels is fantastic, rich TVIt must be so galling for an actor to be blessed with just the right face for one kind of part. Galling for good actors anyway. Pretty sweet for the others – “You need a face someone would definitely kill for? Put this useless hunk/babe in there and just move the scenery round them.”Matthew Goode is, nomenclaturally and otherwise, one of the former, but cursed with a face best described as “modern patrician” and has therefore been the first port of call for just about every period drama there has been for the last 20 years. He’s been in everything from Brideshead Revisited (as Charles Ryder) on the big screen, to Downton Abbey (Henry Talbot) and The Crown (where at least he got to play that bounder Lord Snowdon) on the small one. Judging by the relish with which he seizes the c...

Events

3 w. ago Men who tried to smuggle nearly £600,000 of cannabis from Canada to UK jailed

Both men had two suitcases, each containing hundreds of illegal packages

Economics

3 w. ago Men who tried to smuggle £592,000 of drugs on transatlantic flight jailed

Jamaal Darbasie, 27, and George Manton, 19, both from Harlow in Essex, were stopped at Glasgow Airport in March 2024.

Events

3 w. ago John Swinney turns to teenage son for advice after knife death epidemic

EXCLUSIVE: The First Minister spoke to his 14 year old son Matthew in the wake of knife crime deaths that shocked Scotland.

Events