Alarming stats reveal number of Scots with booze-related disease to soar in future

Alarming stats reveal number of Scots with booze-related disease to soar in future

CHRONIC liver disease cases will rocket by more than 54 per cent in coming decades, it has been predicted. Public health experts say the number of people in Scotland living with the illness will spike to 66,300 by 2044. 3 Alcohol-related liver disease is predicted to surge by 54 percent in the… Alarming stats reveal … Read more

Explosive gangland turf war ‘could end in murder’ as police scramble to get firebomb feud under control

Explosive gangland turf war 'could end in murder' as police scramble to get firebomb feud under control

AN explosion in violence linked to an escalating Edinburgh turf war has sparked fears the feud could end in a gangland murder. Insiders say attacks on kingpin Mark Richardson’s empire have caught police off-guard and they are battling to defuse the powderkeg. 5 Hooded yob caught on camera… Explosive gangland turf war ‘could end in … Read more

Funeral hearse carrying coffin targeted in sickening attack by vandals in Scots city

Funeral hearse carrying coffin targeted in sickening attack by vandals in Scots city

A FUNERAL hearse carrying a coffin has been targeted in a shocking vandalism attack in Edinburgh. The vehicle was on its way to a service at the capital’s Warriston Crematorium when its back window was smashed after yobs launched stones at the city’s Longstone Road. 3 Porteous Family Funeral… Funeral hearse carrying coffin targeted in … Read more

Body found in search for missing woman, 33, who vanished from Scots city

Body found in search for missing woman, 33, who vanished from Scots city

A BODY has been found in the search for a missing woman who vanished from Edinburgh. Jordan Allan, 33, disappeared from the city yesterday, sparking a major search. 2 A body was found on Longniddry Beach this morning amid the search effort. The woman has yet to formally identified but Jordan’s… Body found in search … Read more

Killer driver mowed down Scots OAP while speeding and high on laughing gas

Killer driver mowed down Scots OAP while speeding and high on laughing gas

A DRIVER who inhaled laughing gas mowed down a pensioner before falling asleep in a police car after the fatal smash. Washe Manyatelo, 24, was driving a Mercedes C220 at excessive speed when he struck Annette Dixon, 70, after she got off a bus in Edinburgh. 1 Manyatelo was driving at excessive… Killer driver mowed … Read more

Predatory Scots massage therapist sexually assaulted 10 women during treatments

Predatory Scots massage therapist sexually assaulted 10 women during treatments

A MASSAGE therapist who groped women while carrying out treatments on them is facing jail. Alistair Bennie, 61, left 10 victims frozen in fear as he sexually assaulted them in their own homes and his own property. 1 Alistair Bennie left 10 victims frozen in fear as he sexually assaulted themCredit:… Predatory Scots massage therapist … Read more

Chilling moment warring Scots traveller gang taunts rivals amid fears bitter feud could erupt

Chilling moment warring Scots traveller gang taunts rivals amid fears bitter feud could erupt

FEARS are growing more gang violence could erupt between rival Scots traveller families after a chilling video emerged of one side threatening to fight the other. The alarming clip was shared on TikTok and shows a baying mob of masked men, clad in hi-vis balaclavas yelling obscenities whilst… Chilling moment warring Scots traveller gang taunts rivals amid … Read more

Our estate is plagued by e-bike neds causing havoc — ‘embarrassed’ police are powerless to stop them

Our estate is plagued by e-bike neds causing havoc — ‘embarrassed’ police are powerless to stop them

COPS have confessed they can’t catch yobs terrorising an estate because they escape on speedy e-bikes. One officer told locals in Clydebank that he was “embarrassed” at not having dirt bikes to chase down the 40mph two-wheelers. 3 An e-bike rider zooms down the pavement in Clydebank 3 A… Our estate is plagued by e-bike … Read more

Scots beautician convicted over brutal knife killing of drug dealer boyfriend

Scots beautician convicted over brutal knife killing of drug dealer boyfriend

A BEAUTICIAN who fatally stabbed her drug dealer boyfriend after she claimed he threatened to cut their unborn baby out of her womb has been nailed over the killing. Former hairdresser Dionne Christie, 24, struck Jevin Haig in the chest with his own hunting knife as they struggled in the bedroom… Scots beautician convicted over … Read more

Celtic break silence over Rangers stars’ water spray with fans and Green Brigade police complaints

Celtic break silence over Rangers stars' water spray with fans and Green Brigade police complaints

CELTIC have ‘raised concerns’ over Vaclav Cerny and Nedim Bajrami’s water spray celebrations in the wake of Rangers’ Old Firm winner in the weekend SPFL clash. Fans behind the away dugout and in the front of the main stand were enraged when the Gers players raced from the dugout to hail Hamza… Celtic break silence … Read more