Crime

Two people have been arrested for allegedly racially abusing a Motherwell player ahead of the Fir Park side’s Ladbrokes Premiership match with Hearts at Tynecastle.

CELTIC striker Leigh Griffiths stood trial today after denying a speeding charge.

The father of a young British backpacker missing in New Zealand has flown to the other side of the world to make a tearful plea for information surrounding her disappearance.

A trio of armed thieves were disturbed by the returning owner of a house they had broken into in Livingston.

Police in Edinburgh are appealing for the public’s help to trace a woman who has been reported missing in the Capital.

Police are hunting a man who appeared from bushes and attempted to sexually assault a woman as she walked through a West Lothian park.

Police in Edinburgh have released images of a man they wish to trace following a serious assault in the city centre.

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A depraved bully tried to get a woman to send him topless pictures as a child he attempted to murder in West Lothian lay in a critical condition in hospital.

A TEENAGE thug launched a horror bottle attack on his vulnerable girlfriend - after he had downed a whole bottle of Buckfast.

A missing woman who was last seen near Edinburgh’s Waverley station has been traced safe and well.

A former personal assistant of JK Rowling who is accused of fraudulently using her credit card to go on spending sprees was a “good liar”, the Harry Potter author’s husband has told a court.

AN EDINBURGH man who pinned down a woman in a bed of nettles and tried to rape her has been jailed.

Last Sunday I was making my way to Tynecastle Park to see the Hearts/Rangers game, full of optimism. I rounded the corner from Gorgie Road into McLeod Street when I spotted a familiar figure with a Hearts scarf around his neck and a bundle of leaflets in his hand.

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Two men have been arrested and charged in connection with a serious assault on George Street that left a man hospitalised.

Callous thieves who targeted a day centre for OAPs used a pushchair to wheel away the safe - which held money raised for a Christmas lunch.

A former Celtic Boys’ Club chairman has been convicted of sexually abusing four boys and a girl while he was employed as a teacher.

Police are appealing for help to trace a missing 14-year-old boy from Ayr who may have travelled to Edinburgh.