Crime

A DEPRAVED sex predator from Prestonfield who boasted of his child abuse during online chats with other paedophiles was jailed for 14 years today.

A woman reported missing from the Murrayburn area of Edinburgh has been found safe and well, say police.

A man has been arrested after a malnourished dog was found abandoned at a roundabout in Bathgate.

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An Italian man who vanished from his home in Pisa has been treated in an Edinburgh hospital for nearly a month after losing his memory.

A man has been arrested in connection with the abandonment of a mistreated dog which had to be put down.

A KNIFE-WIELDING drunk who sparked a terror alert by attempting to set fire to the Scottish Parliament has been jailed.

A three-figure sum of cash was stolen from a bookmakers in Livingston in what police are describing as a “frightening” armed robbery.

Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said language used in an internal police email on the deployment of female firearm officers is “utterly intolerable”.

A retired Edinburgh primary teacher faces being struck off after claims he punished a pupil by making him “sit in his underwear.”

A DRIVER who crashed his car into railings on a city centre street fell ill at the wheel, it has been confirmed.

A man with “issues” with God and religion started fires at two places of worship within minutes of each other.

A teenage boy from Ayrshire who was reported missing last week has been found safe and well in Gorebridge.

HEARTBROKEN family have said tearful goodbyes to a prematurely born baby who died after being involved in a car crash.

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A former teacher will not face a retrial over allegations she had sex with a student in the toilet of a plane as they returned from a school trip.

A MOTORCYCLIST is in a serious condition in hospital after his bike hit a tree this afternoon.

RAMPAGING yobs tipped a car onto its side in a residential Capital street last night.

Police have launched an appeal to trace a missing teenager who may have travelled to Dalkeith.