Scots scallop diving company who lost worker at sea for 11 hours fined £15,000 over safety failings

worker who became the victim of a horror abduction and rape has been fined £20,000. The Action Group, which provides housing and community support to those with additional needs, had pled guilty to health and safety at work breaches.

drugs after cops spotted him “sweating profusely” in Edinburgh’s Waverley train station. Lee Brunton was approached by officers in the station who suspected he and a pal were “under the influence of something”.The 28-year-old was searched and 104 benzodiazepine tablets were recovered from his rucksack.Police also found four screwdrivers in the bag and Brunton, a painter and decorator, was arrested.

crash victims had previously been in prison for killing a schoolboy. We told how David Paton, 27, died alongside Manveer Benning, also 27, and 31-year-old Mark Downie following the smash on the M8 near Bishopton, Renfrewshire on Sunday morning.

Falkirk Sheriff Court heard the accident happened about 10.30 am on October 14th, 2017.

coronavirus case among pupils in the first two weeks of term. New figures from a freedom of information request by the PA news agency submitted to Public Health Scotland (PHS) show that 1,455 schools in Scotland recorded a positive case between August 16 and August 27, the first two weeks of term - 58.7% of all schools.

money for sex when she wanted to leave for a better paid job still poses a “risk” to girls, a court heard.Asim Akram told the teen: “If you’re that desperate, I’ll give you £30 to have sex with me.”Akram, 28, left her “horrified” after making the sick proposal over Snapchat.He had earlier made the girl “uncomfortable” by frequently talking about sex when his business was quiet.Akram also asked the schoolgirl, who can’t be identified for legal reasons, to be his girlfriend in another social media

soldier who exposed himself to a nightclub worker has been fined nearly £1,000 for the seedy stunt. Elliot Whelpton slapped his penis out onto a ledge and told the staff member: "I've not got a ticket, but I've got a d***." The soldier, who is based at Leuchars Station in Fife, left the female worker stunned after refusing to pay his way into the club.

catching coronavirus on a cruise ship where several other passengers have fallen ill. Marilyn and David Thomson, from Saltcoats, boarded the MSC Virtuosa on September 1 for a relaxing week-long break around the British Isles.

Glasgow was finally taken to hospital she spent a further three hours in the back of the ambulance waiting to get in the door. The 23-hour delay in getting to hospital came despite medics advising Sheila over the phone to call 999 for an ambulance as she needed urgent treatment.Sheila’s husband George, 69, told of the family’s anger at the way mum-of-two Sheila was treated.

restaurant worker has won an £11,000 pay out after a tribunal found he was racially abused and grabbed by the throat by a head chef. Kitchen porter Vasilis Kodra took La Vita - a family-run business which has five Italian eateries in and around Glasgow - to an employment tribunal, claiming he was attacked and told “Albanians are f**king trouble” during a rammy with ex colleague Robbie Syme at the city’s Byres Road branch.

nursery worker has been struck off after grabbing a child by the cheeks before saying "she better watch it." The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) found that Josh Doherty, who worked at Little Flowers Nursery in Renfrew, also shouted at the same child "why are you crying? "That's it we've had enough and I'm going to be speaking to your mum."Before grabbing the child's face, Doherty, 20, told her "you need to stop this, this is ridiculous."The trainee practitioner, who now works at KFC,

Scotch whisky giant has been fined £50,000 after an engineer was crushed by machinery in a "foreseeable accident". Chivas Brothers Ltd, which makes Chivas Regal, last month admitted breaching health and safety laws at its bottling plant in Kilmalid, Dumbarton, after the incident on February 22, 2017.

Environmental Services boss Alison Pettigrew, wife of former co-director Garry ­Pettigrew, has been disqualified by ­Government agency the Insolvency Service (IS). It said Mrs Pettigrew, 52, breached her “fiduciary duty” by allowing HES to transfer assets valued at £2,979,383 to connected firms in the two months before the firm collapsed – sparking a national ­clinical waste crisis.Mr Pettigrew’s conduct is also being investigated by the watchdog, it’s ­understood.

ordered to pay £290,000 in damages to the family of a dad who died during an expedition at Scapa Flow. Lex Warner suffered internal injuries after falling on the deck of the MV Jean Elaine in August 2012 after he tripped over his flipper.

jailed today. David Allan, 31, phoned a council contact centre to complain about the "service" he thought he should have been getting from the West Lothian-based worker.He said he would be "getting a one-way ticket to the jail, and there will be no more" [of her].

sheriff has ruled. Bryan Thomson, 25, was power washing a mower at Northhouse Farm near Hawick, Roxburghshire, when it collapsed onto him.

restaurant owner has claimed she has lost around £1,700 over recent weeks due to brazen diners leaving without paying. Lynn MacLeod said she has never experienced so many bill dodgers in the 20 years that she has owned Maxies Bistro near the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.

Strathclyde University, found himself unable to pay his student accommodation. He decided to ditch his “awful” flat in Glasgow’s Finnieston and invested £1,700 into an old Fiat Diablo cab with his girlfriend instead.

teenagers in tracksuits have robbed a house of more than £25,000 worth of belongings. Police are hunting four to five young teens who swiped cash and jewellery from a house in Stranraer.

dementia was left waiting more than 19 hours for an ambulance despite suffering symptoms of a stroke. Frail Joyce Meikle, 82, was unable to lift her leg and became unresponsive in her Rutherglen home after her health deteriorated through the night on Sunday, August 22.