All news by author: Kris Gourlay

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Hospital on lockdown after 'stabbing' on ward as police rush to scene
The terrifying incident is understood to have taken place at around 6.25pm last night as emergency services rushed to the scene and a man was treated for his injuries following an alleged stabbing
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EasyJet flight from UK to Lanzarote met by police due to 'disruptive passenger'
EasyJet confirmed there had been an incident on one of its flights to the Canary Islands and said police met the plane as a result of one passenger "behaving disruptively"
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'Doctors put my headaches down to brain tumour but truth nearly killed me'
Mum-of-one Heather Cuthbertson has thanked her boss and doctors at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh who helped save her life and her eyesight following a near-deadly kidney infection
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Couple unable to sleep as home overrun by 'German cockroaches' crawling up walls
Louise Brown, 40, and her partner Daren Devries, 49, were horrified to find dozens of the creatures were crawling up their walls during the night and they now have rashes and struggle to breathe
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Mum left in 'worst pain of life' after being stung by jellyfish on UK beach
Kerry, from Edinburgh, has told how she was left in the "worst pain of her life" after she and her daughter Rose were stung by jellyfish at Cramond Beach, while the South Queensferry Coastguard has issued a warning
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Teenage boy who thought he had growing pains given devastating diagnosis
Kieran Smart was just 14 when he was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma, a type of cancer that can affect both the pelvis and lungs and is more frequent in young males
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Woman 'sleeping with one eye open' after Beyoncé fan 'peed in her garden'
Residents living near Murrayfield in Scotland say Beyoncé concertgoers were using their gardens as toilets, with one woman saying she received abuse after confronting a stranger
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Family holiday becomes 'nightmare' after gran breaks back while unpacking
Debbie Drysdale told how a family holiday to celebrate her mum May, 75, overcoming breast cancer turned into "one nightmare after another" as she fractured her spine and shoulder
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Man spots snake metres away while on the toilet after night at the pub
Terry Fairley had returned home from the pub and gone to the toilet, only leap up in shock after he saw the reptile slithering along the floor of his West Lothian home
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Missing Brit found on ship bound for Africa after disappearing for two weeks
Isobel Scott, 15, had lied to her her parents when she told them she was going to the cinema for the evening – but ended up on a ship bound for Casablanca in western Morocco
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Man diagnosed with aggressive cancer after noticing subtle symptom
A small and strang symptom found on a man in Edinburgh led to a cancer diagnosis. Now in remission, Graeme Clark, 34, is encouraging people to get checked out as early as they can
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Massive 'sink hole' opens up on busy street and unveils lost underground tunnel
An underground tunnel, which was once part of the former Scotland Street Railway Line and former a bunker in the Second World War, was found when a sinkhole opened in Edinburgh
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'Drunk' Ryanair passenger saying ‘darling I've only had one' is kicked off plane
Footage shows a Ryanair passenger eventually forced off a plane heading to Edinburgh from Riga by security after trying to deny that he was drunk and saying he had only had "one"
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Subway diner taken to hospital seven minutes after biting into sandwich
Kiera Gleed alleges that seven minutes after eating her sub from the fast food chain she started to notice a tingling in her throat. She called an ambulance as her throat tightened
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Bomb squad explosion takes place at mosque after 'suspicious bags' found inside
A video recorded by an eye-witness at the scene captured the moment an explosion was heard coming from the Edinburgh Central Mosque building