Police arrest eight teens in connection with murder of boy after alleged 'stabbing'

A thug who murdered his friend after a row over beer has died in prison.

A parent council has called for community policing patrols at an Edinburgh primary school after staff reported "regularly feeling threatened and unsafe at work".

Police in Renfrewshire are appealing for the public's help to trace a missing woman from Paisley, as concerns for her wellbeing grow.

Selome Hailu At the end of Boots Riley’s 2018 debut feature, “Sorry to Bother You,” Cassius (LaKeith Stanfield) gets stretched and mutilated beyond recognition until he becomes a horse — all in service of the film’s cutting narrative about how capitalism is crushing us all. In “I’m a Virgo,” Riley’s new Amazon Prime Video series, that stretching comes before the story begins: 19-year-old Cootie (Jharrel Jerome) is 13 feet tall, and he ends up under attack when the city of Oakland learns about the giant living in its backyard — again, all in service of a cutting narrative about how capitalism is crushing us all. “I believe that people should democratically control the wealth that we create with our labor,” says Riley, 52. The writer-director has identified as a communist since before he gained recognition for founding the political hip-hop group the Coup in 1991. “How do you get the working class to organize together? Through them understanding where their power is, and under capitalism, our power is in the withholding of labor. There needs to be a mass, militant, radical labor movement that turns more radical as it goes on, until the people actually take over the places that they work and change the nature of society.”

The body of a missing woman has been founded in a wooded area, police have confirmed.

Amanda Bynes has been placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold.

Tributes have been paid to a man who died following a disturbance in the Scottish Highlands, after a teenager was arrested in connection with his death.

The parents of a 16-year-old schoolgirl allegedly handcuffed and taken to a police station for trying to get her school leaver's shirt signed have hit out at police and the school. The GCSE student was allegedly reprimanded at Ormiston Horizon Academy, in Chell, this week, following a dispute with school staff over an end-of year taking place.

Police dogs caught two alleged drug dealers in Edinburgh after cops responded to reports of a gang of armed men.

MP Michelle Thomson was bullied, threatened and forced out of the SNP on the orders of then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon after her name became linked to a police inquiry.

Police have released images of a man they are hunting in connection with a serious assault in Glasgow city centre.

A police station and residential property have been cordoned off by police after a man was rushed to hospital in an early morning incident.

Police are appealing for help to find a man wearing an AC/DC shirt who vanished overnight in Motherwell. Leszek Stanislaw Bebenek was last seen in the Fife Drive area of the town at around 8.30pm on Wednesday.

Police are appealing for the public's help to trace a man from the north-east of Scotland, after he disappeared in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Police are investigating alleged death threats sent to an SNP MP.

Nicola Sturgeon has gone to ground in the 36 hours since she was arrested by police amid an ongoing investigation into the finances of the Scottish National Party. Neighbours in her quiet suburban street in Uddingston, near Glasgow, say there have been no signs of life at the home she shares with husband Peter Murrell following her release.

Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested in connection with the ongoing probe into the funding and finances of the SNP.

A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a fire at a Scots home.

A man has admitted to killing a dad who was gunned down in Manchester. Zikel Bobmanuel, 32, was shot dead in the Openshaw area of the city in March.

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a "much-loved" dad in Edinburgh.