All news on the topic: Scotland

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Teenage blade thugs convicted over murder of 16-year-old Kayden Moy
This is the shocking moment three teenage knife attackers celebrated after murdering 16-year-old Kayden Moy on Irvine Beach.
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Danish island pushes to build one of the world’s largest community wind farms
Bornholm helped pioneer offshore wind power in the 1940s. Now residents want to build one of the world’s largest community-owned wind farms, raising the bar for locally controlled renewable energy.
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Former SNP Westminster leader backs Nicola Sturgeon despite mounting fallout from £400k fraud scandal
The former SNP leader at Westminster has defended Nicola Sturgeon amid her estranged husband’s embezzlement scandal casting a dark shadow over Holyrood.
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Nicola Sturgeon says she is "serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit" after Murrell fraud admission
A determined Nicola Sturgeon expressed that she feels like she is “serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit” after her estranged husband, former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, admitted to embezzling more than £400,000 from the party.
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Scotland’s criminal courts buckle under soaring backlog driven by organised crime and historic abuse trials
The backlog of trials in Scotland’s highest criminal courts has nearly tripled, due in part to an increase in complex cases involving serious organized crime and historic sex abuse.
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Sturgeon’s "no comment" police interview sparks row after Murrell embezzlement conviction
Nicola Sturgeon’s lawyer has defended her decision to answer "no comment" to detectives’ questions following her arrest as part of a probe into SNP finances.
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Scotland’s "street patrols" under scrutiny as critics warn of vigilante tactics
It’s a dank evening in Peterhead and someone is walking the streets of the north east town filming people. The man, seemingly drunk, is live streaming himself on Facebook and announces he’s on night patrol to protect the community.
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From Scotland’s most powerful political couple to a prison cell: Peter Murrell behind bars
Peter Murrell was one half of the most powerful political couple Scotland has ever seen.
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From Jaguar to luxury kitchen accessories: Peter Murrell’s spending list using SNP funds revealed
The party’s former chief exec, 61, faced eight charges today when he appeared in the dock at the High Court in Edinburgh.
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Husband of former Nicola Sturgeon leader Peter Murrell admits to embezzling £400,000 from the coffers of the Scottish National Party
Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell has been remanded into custody at the High Court in Edinburgh after pleading guilty to embezzling £400,310.65 from the political party.
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From Ibox Bank to offshore laundromats: how Konstantin Buryachenko built the payment empire behind gambling money and Russian sanctions evasion
According to media reports, a network of payment systems such as Payeer and Piastrix, reportedly used in connection with semi-underground online casinos across the former USSR, has been linked to former employees of Alfa-Bank and IBOX Bank.
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Newly elected Scottish MSPs accused of profiting from housing crisis through second homes and rentals
Some of Scotland’s new MSPs are landlords, own multiple homes, or benefit from lucrative holiday lets in areas among those worst hit by the housing crisis, The Ferret can reveal.
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Scott Hastings, Grand Slam hero and Lions great, dies at 6
Scott Hastings, one of Scotland’s greatest players and a two-time tourist with the British and Irish Lions, has died at the age of 61.
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Former boxing champion may have been killed instead of underworld target in Edinburgh hit
The fatal stabbing of Neil McCann prompted one of the biggest police investigations Scotland had seen and more than 50 years later the baffling gangland related murder remains unsolved.
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Elite Edinburgh goes under the hammer: a third of flats in prestigious Quartermile bought up by foreign owners
Edinburgh’s Quartermile district is wedged between the city’s historic Old Town and The Meadows, one of the city’s most popular parks.
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Wealthy landowners cash in millions from Scotland’s wind farms funded by public energy bills
Wealthy landowners — including a Swedish aristocrat, relatives of a former prime minister, and a Tory donor — are reportedly earning millions in rent from wind farms subsidised through public energy bills.
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Trump praises John Swinney after SNP election win as Labour suffers heavy losses in Scotland
US president Donald Trump has described John Swinney as a "good man" as he congratulated him on his election win.
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Transgender Green Party candidates make history as Scotland elects first two trans MSPs to Holyrood
Scotland has elected its first two transgender MSPs to the Holyrood parliament.
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Labour MPs urge Starmer to set exit timeline after devastating local election losses
Keir Starmer is under pressure to establish a timeline for his departure after a significant defeat in elections throughout Britain led senior Labour MPs to urge him to step down within a year.
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Local elections turn into referendum on Starmer as Labour braces for crushing losses
FED up with your local councillor failing to fix the potholes? Thinking about voting them out tomorrow?
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Brit entrepreneur missing in Morocco after leaving hotel and nightclub visit
A brit holidaymaker has vanished from a tourist hotspot as her family desperately appeal for answers.
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Two police officers hospitalised after car incident in Scottish town of Hamilton
A teenager has been arrested after two police officers were rushed to hospital following an incident in Hamilton.
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Man charged after £4m cannabis stash found in cross-border police operation
A suspected £4m cannabis haul has been seized in a cross-border police operation.
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Teacher dubbed “Scotland’s Jimmy Savile” accused of decades of rape and racist abuse of schoolboys
A teacher labeled as Scotland’s Jimmy Savile racially abused a student while carrying out brutal attacks. Iain Wares faces dozens of charges, including rape, against 68 boys aged between eight and 13 from 1968-79 when he taught at Edinburgh Academy and Fettes College.
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Scottish influencer jailed after smuggling £150k of cannabis through Edinburgh Airport
A Scots social media influencer who was caught smuggling £150,000 worth of cannabis through Edinburgh Airport has been jailed for 16 months.