Man injured after armed cops fire gun during street lockdown in Stonehaven

A barber who called his salon Prov-City after the US city he grew up in has been subjected to an eight-month campaign of sectarian abuse. Graffiti has been daubed on the door of Stuart Pelletier’s salon and stones thrown at the ­window, and he has been subjected to abuse by strangers, who believe he is an IRA sympathiser, shouting: “C’mon the Provos.”

Police have released CCTV images of a suspect wanted in connection with a street attack which left a man seriously injured in hospital. A verbal altercation between the two men took place in the early hours of October 14 between Cowgate and Candlemaker Row in Edinburgh.

A person has been found dead in a popular park in Angus. Emergency services raced to Reid Park in Forfar shortly after 1pm today.

A Scots former hotel boss has been killed and his friend injured after masked gunmen opened fire at a bar in St Lucia in the Caribbean.

A seal pup found injured on an East Lothian beach has tragically had to be put to sleep, Scotland's animal welfare charity has confirmed.

A young man has died following a horror crash in the Highlands.

A man has appeared in court charged with four attempted murders after a ‘disturbance’ which saw a motorhome allegedly rammed by a tipper truck moments after a 'machete fight'.

A man has appeared in court charged with abduction, assault and carrying an offensive weapon after armed police were called to reports of a ‘disturbance’ in Stonehaven.

A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a ‘disturbance’ in Airdrie which saw a motorhome allegedly rammed by a tipper truck moments after a 'machete fight'.

Armed police have locked down a street in Stonehaven after officers were called to reports of a ‘disturbance’.

Police have launched an ‘unexplained death’ probe after a man died in hospital following an incident on the M8 in Glasgow.

A man has been arrested after an alleged stabbing near a soup kitchen for the homeless in Glasgow city centre last night.

A paraglider sparked a rescue mission near the summit of Tinto Hill yesterday after injuring himself when attempting to take off.

A man has been rushed to hospital after police were called to a street in East Lothian on Saturday afternoon.

Four men have been jailed following a £46,000 drugs bust in the Highlands and Moray.

Police Scotland have launched a renewed appeal for information after a teen was found seriously injured on the A75.

A man has tragically died after falling from the third floor window of a Glasgow flat.

Police have arrested a 44-year-old man after a woman was allegedly raped in Port Glasgow at the weekend.

Sir Rod Stewart has been offering wise words to teenage son Alastair so he doesn't get tied down too young.