A backpacker who ruined a soldier’s military career in a brutal street assault has been jailed for four years.
Levi Virbickas, 21, from New Zealand, punched Royal Irish Regiment ranger Paul Bacon in the face 15 to 20 times and jumped on his head in the attack.
The incident happened at Falcon Square in Inverness last November [...]

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The number of babies being born in Scotland has outnumbered deaths for the first time in more than a decade, according to the latest figures.
Death rates are also said to be at the lowest total since the introduction of civil registration in 1855.
The official statistics have been released by the registrar general.
For the fourth year [...]

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SNP leader Alex Salmond has given his backing for a new group catering for young Asians at the party’s annual conference.
Mr Salmond, Depute Leader Nicola Sturgeon and SNP Parliamentary Candidate Bashir Ahmad were all present at the launch of the Young Asian Scots for Independence (YASI). Mr Ahmad is set to become the Scottish [...]

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A hardcore of muggers are behind an alarming number of gang rapes in London, according to Scotland Yard.
There has been a group sex attack for every day of the last year - and two thirds of the suspects had convictions for theft and robbery. Half had been involved in street crime in the previous 12 [...]

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More than 1,000 miles of the Tay river system is to be surveyed in a bid to improve the fishing.
The £70,000 project will aim to draw up a list of all the problems and the work that needs to be done.
The Tay river system is the most extensive in Scotland and the study’s aim is [...]

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A female council worker who allegedly had an affair with her boss was warned she would have to sleep with people to get promoted, a tribunal has heard.
The woman was giving evidence at the employment tribunal of former Aberdeen City Council employee Tom McNeil.
Mr McNeil claims he was forced to quit his job after reporting [...]

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Two men who raped and threatened to kill a young woman after driving her to a country lane have been imprisoned for a total of 12 years.
Their terrified 26-year-old victim told the High Court in Glasgow that one of her attackers called her “white scum” during the prolonged ordeal.
Ranna Singh, 26, and Mohammed Yousaff, 35, [...]

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A 30-year-old woman has been raped by a gang of four men in Glasgow.
Police said the victim was attacked while walking her dog in Overnewton Street, in the Yorkhill area of the city, at about 0040 BST.
The men were described as being of Afro Caribbean appearance. One was said to be in his mid 20s [...]

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STAFF at the Money Shop in Glasgow are being given crash courses in Polish.
Employees at the Renfield Street store are being taught some basic phrases following a rise in the number of Polish customers using the shop.
Research among [...]

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THE FIRM responsible for the oil spill which polluted the Firth of Forth earlier this month has been given a deadline to come up with solutions to prevent oil spills from recurring.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has given the Ineos oil refinery in Grangemouth until Monday to implement interim measures which will reduce the [...]

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An African footballer has gone on the run after his team visited Aberdeen for the city’s International Football Festival.
Ghanaian Emanuel Anarfi disappeared while his team attended the city’s annual sports event.
He was believed to have left his African team-mates in the hope of starting a new life in London.
Last year the Evening Express told [...]

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More than 16,000 people used a new hovercraft service in the Forth estuary in its first week, operators have revealed.
Commuter numbers also doubled after the introduction of a priority booking line on the route between Kirkcaldy in Fife and Portobello in Edinburgh.
Transport firm Stagecoach is expecting more passengers this week after the closure of the [...]

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A coach driver has been charged over the deaths of three people who were killed in a crash on the M25 near Heathrow Airport.
Philip Rooney 48, of Lanarkshire, Scotland, faces three counts of causing death by dangerous driving.
The London-to-Aberdeen National Express coach overturned on the M4/M25 slip road on 3 January. Two people died soon [...]

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A GAY friendly club night, believed to be the first one ever staged in West Lothian, is set to be held this evening.
The Livi Nitespot will host “Sugar Sugar” from 9pm and organisers are expecting up to 300 people to come along to what is planned to be a monthly event.
In recent years there [...]

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TWO pet cats have been shot with air rifles in incidents just over a mile apart in west Edinburgh.
One of the cats is lucky to be alive after vets removed the pellet from just above its spine
Today, the Scottish SPCA said the attacks were almost certainly carried out by children, and called for [...]

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HUNDREDS of city flats are being investigated amid complaints of up to 18 Polish workers being crammed into a single two-bedroom property.
Housing welfare officers are visiting 433 homes across the Capital after neighbours and tenants complained they were being rented out illegally.
The worst cases involve migrant Polish workers who are being crammed into [...]

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HEARTS last night rejected a bid from Sunderland for keeper Craig Gordon that could eventually net them up to £8million.
Jambos owner Vladimir Romanov has told the English Premiership new boys their offer of around £5m down, with further add-ons of around £3m, isn’t good enough.
Hearts have been in talks with Sunderland for the last few [...]

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The Spango Valley-based company confirmed it is in talks to transfer to Paisley next year. This latest blow comes only a month after the Chinese company announced that 50 highly skilled workers would be axed. Earlier this year the Telegraph revealed the firm had refused to commit to Inverclyde when its contract at the IBM [...]

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