Van explodes into flames and crashes into parked car on Scots street

charity in her memory.Seven-year-old Freya Skene and mum Brooke Reid were dragged down a series of waterfalls in the River Braan near Dunkeld on July 9.Despite Brooke and her partner Sean McKiddie's best efforts to save her, Freya sadly passed away.Heartbroken Brooke has now set up a fundraising page in the hope of starting up a charity called 'Freya's Wish' in her daughter's honour.She said: "Like a flash of a light, a current dragged us both down multiple waterfalls."I was lucky to survive,

search for a missing Scots mum. Police made the grim discovery of a 48-year-old woman in Broomhoouse Road, Bonnybridge, around 11.10am on September 29.

jailed for two years yesterday.Car company boss Matthew Kelsey, 32, posed as a teenager to gain the trust of his vulnerable 14-year-old victim, plied her with presents, and called her his “Pumpkin” and “Princess”.Then he coaxed her into the back of a van, which he had fitted out with a rug and a bed, and had sex with her twice, Falkirk Sheriff Court was told.He even met her mother and told her he was 14.When her besotted daughter told her mum what she believed was the truth – that Kelsey was a

seriously injured after three women jumped from a car and attacked him in a residential Scots street. The three thugs assaulted their victim outside a home in Florence Street, Greenock, at around 10.30pm on Saturday, September 26.

smash with a car in Hamilton last night.

smash in Glasgow. The 29-year-old's bike and a van crashed on Westmuir Street at the junction with Hart Street in the Parkhead area of the city at around 11.10pm last night.

breakdown organisation Green Flag to provide car safety and maintenance tips – especially for those leaving home for the first time. With thousands of youngsters running older cars and now driving on unfamiliar roads, the advice could prove particularly useful.

Coronation Street actor Sam Robertson is best known for his role as Adam Barlow on the soap, after joining the cobbles in 2004.The 34 year old Scottish actor has been embroiled in several tense storylines since joining Corrie, but how much do we know about the star off-screen? Let’s take a look… Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK's daily newsletter. You can sign up at the top of the page.

self-isolation rules.

Kilmarnock road at Mauchline yesterday at around 12 noon.

bigoted tongue.Karen Mason, 49, verbally abused people in Bo'ness, West Lothian, “almost daily” for nearly two-and-a-half years.Many of her targets were neighbours of her elderly mother.In one particularly nasty outburst she called a man “a homosexual, flag-waving Jew”, a court was told.Prosecutor Kristina Kelly said: “Comments directed at other neighbours included, ‘That’s the black b******’.”Falkirk Sheriff Court heard Mason’s behaviour got so bad that a couple living in Links Road, Bo’ness,

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterThe arrival of a group from the Travelling community, who last week took up a section of the car park on the site of the Citadel Leisure Centre, left residents “up in arms.”It was the second time in two weeks that the town’s residents woke up to an illegal encampment on their back door.Last week we told how a group of travellers had pitched up on the old railway siding in Ayr’s Weir Road with

Scottish Fire and Rescue Service raced to the A725 in Bellshill at around 9.30pm after reports of the fire. Motorists were shocked to see flames ripping through the gritting lorry as it sat stationery on the busy motorway at the junction after McDonald's Bellshill.

SPIDER BITE left her tot needing emergency surgery for a 'tangerine-sized abscess'.Emily-Jane Stuart had been at a funfair when she is believed to have been bitten by the eight-legged creature while playing on the slides, initially leaving a pin-prick-sized sore on her arm.The six-year-old carried on enjoying her day but her mum Ashley Simpson, 26, noticed a bright red sore rapidly spreading across her skin two days later.Soon the bite had turned into a bulbous blister that would not pop and

Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. The hit ITV show will return for its 17th series on television next year - and bosses are on the hunt for people to participate in some of the show’s wacky games.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A Scots cop has told of how he and his police dog were run over while chasing a stolen vehicle in Glasgow.The unnamed dog handler and his four-legged partner Rudi had been after a stolen car near the city's London Road in March of 2016.The pair had left their vehicle to give chase to the three occupants.But little did they know a second stolen car was lying in wait and after picking up the three it then ran

Police have issued a warning to car enthusiasts who are set to gather at a Lanarkshire industrial estate. Dozens of vehicles from across the country are expected to meet at the Birkenshaw Industrial Estate in Uddingston on Saturday night.

mum sought a second opinion.On June 1, doctors told Karen and Andrew Stirrat that their four-year-old son Caleb only had months left to live when his atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumour (ATRT) returned weeks after he had been given the all clear.Refusing to give up hope, the devastated Clydebank family searched for treatment for their son.Within days they found an oncologist in Manchester who agreed to put Caleb on a clinical trial - after the growth was removed.Glasgow Royal Hospital for Children

clean and dry place to safely inject heroin and cocaine, which is against existing UK law.But instead of tracking Krykant down and publicly arresting him, Police Scotland has stealthily tried to disrupt his service by contacting his insurers.The force has acted despite admitting he has not committed any crime.Former drug addict Krykant, from Falkirk, was called by his insurance broker and told the policy would be cancelled on Thursday.Despite the blow, he has vowed not to give up.He said: “As

Waverley paddle steamer has crashed into a pier at one of Scotland's most popular tourist hotspots. The vessel got into difficulty as it approached Brodick pier on the Isle of Arran on Thursday.