57 h. ago Woman who stabbed man, 61, to death in racist attack after calling herself the 'Charles Bronson of Bristol' told care worker she was going to 'get the Jamaican drug dealer' minutes earlier

A woman who stabbed a man to death in a racist and unprovoked attack had asked her care worker that she be sent back to hospital minutes before the killing.

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6 d. ago Man arrested by police over serious sexual assault in city flat

The woman was reportedly raped at a Glasgow flat

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8 d. ago Emma Caldwell killer let off hook due to 'police bias' ex cop claims

A new documentary examines the 2005 death of the Glasgow sex worker and questions why it took nearly two decades to bring her killer Iain Packer to justice.

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9 d. ago We look inside Scotland's Home of the Year judge Anna Campbell

In the Glasgow tenement flat the SHOTY judge calls home, every picture tells a story

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1 week ago Terrifying moment axeman attacks flat door in Glasgow caught on camera

Doorbell footage shows the man swing an axe at the flat door at least 13 times leaving residents 'in fear'.

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1 week ago Recycling plant worker crushed to death after colleague makes terrible mistake

Mechanic Soner Altun, 26, from Turkey, died after he was crushed to death in a horror work place accident at a recycling plant last week. Tributes have since poured in for the engineer

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2 w. ago Nursery worker charged with manslaughter over toddler’s death

Noah Sibanda, aged 14 months, died at a nursery in Dudley in December 2022.

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3 w. ago Scissor killer who stabbed NHS worker to death in Glasgow flat is jailed

Darren McDade has been jailed after killing an NHS worker Kyle Zybilowicz with a pair of scissors.

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3 w. ago Italy's biggest union joins prosecution of farm owner over death of Indian migrant worker

Italy’s main trade union confederation is backing the prosecution of a farm owner over the death of an undocumented worker from India who bled to death after his arm was cut off

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3 w. ago ‘I’d been singing the wrong word for 30 years’: Deacon Blue on how they made Dignity

‘It’s become a sort of folk song. It’s played at weddings and funerals. Dundee United play it when we win. I’ve met people who’ve told me, “I was a worker for the council for 20 years” – just like the guy in the song’I was a teacher in Glasgow but I wanted to start a band and write songs that meant something to people. Dignity began life during a holiday in Crete in 1985. I bought Sounds magazine at the airport. Morrissey was on the cover and the headline “Home thoughts from abroad” got me thinking about Glasgow. I was living in a tenement flat in Pollokshields, from where I’d see the cleansing department guys sweeping the road. So I started writing about a “worker for the council, has been 20 years” who dreamed of sailing away on a “ship called Dignity”. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago The death of my friend inspired me to follow my standup dreams

For one writer, tragedy led to comedy, the sudden loss of a colleague giving her the nudge she neededThere’s nothing funny about your co-worker being assassinated. But it was the death of my beloved colleague and friend Hisham al-Hashimi that led me into the world of standup comedy. I knew it would trash my hard-won career in international security, but I didn’t care any more.Hisham had run a workshop with me in Iraq six months prior to his death, and I’d taken everything so seriously, marching around the hotel yelling about how everything was going wrong. But Hisham always had a lightness in his step, a smile on his face. Every evening, he’d take me to a café, order me my favourite shisha and proceed to tell the most disgusting jokes. Continue reading...

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