Court put in lockdown as dangerous 'dirty protest' transexual prisoner appears in dock half naked

A police officer accused of raping and assaulting a woman and a young child "abused his position" a prosecutor has told jury members.

Let’s go, girls! Shania Twain is Waking Up Dreaming today, as she secures her third Official Number 1 album with Queen of Me. 

A new online petition is calling on the UK Government to “urgently work” with charities and the veterinary industry to introduce targeted animal welfare support across the country to prevent pets from being abandoned or euthanised as owners struggle to cope with the ongoing cost of living crisis.

Fire crews have worked through the night to battle a blaze at Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.

Edinburgh’s strip clubs will stay open after a judge ruled the city council’s bid to ban them was unlawful.

NHS Forth Valley chiefs have published a wide-ranging plan to instigate major reforms after the Scottish Government took on direct oversight of the authority last year.

Asda has launched a new initiative that will see the supermarket serve thousands of free warm breakfasts to children this February half-term.

A Scots couple have been banned from keeping animals for life after their two extremely underweight dogs were found with no food or water in a kitchen smeared in faeces and urine.

An extreme far-right group clashed with dozens of campaigners after hijacking a community protest over asylum seekers being housed at a Scots hotel.

A Wetherspoons pub in Scotland will close its doors next month, joining dozens across the UK being sold off.

A campaign against an “asylum hotel” in Scotland has been hijacked by an extreme right wing group.

Nicola Sturgeon has insisted the decision to halt the transfer of transgender prisoners with a history of violence against women was taken to provide "clarity".

The right-hand man of the SNP ’s new leader at Westminster travelled across two council areas and flew to Northern Ireland at the height of the Covid pandemic, it has emerged.

A former prisoner has told how she went through hell after being forced to share a shower block with violent trans inmates.

Climate activists have staged a protest outside Barclays office in Glasgow.

Firefighters have rushed to a Scots street after a home went up in flames on Saturday afternoon.

Nicola Sturgeon faces another trans storm after a decision was made to house one of Scotland’s most violent prisoners in a women’s jail. The Record can reveal that volatile Tiffany Scott - who stalked a 13-year-old girl while known as Andrew Burns - has been rubber-stamped for transfer to a jail that aligns with her chosen gender.

More details are slowly emerging about the £400 Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Funding (EBSS AF) which is due to be paid to some 900,000 households across Great Britain who do not have a direct relationship with their electricity supplier from next month.

Lewis Capaldi fans made him laugh during his Hydro gig last night after he spotted a few concert-goers holding up a sign reading 'justice for the mangina'.

King Charles is set to make Prince Edward the Duke of Edinburgh following a "change of heart".