All news by author: Lucinda Cameron

A University of Aberdeen team found a section of DNA which "switches" on key genes in parts of the brain that affect anxiety levels in mice

Elizabeth Bell, 11, was hit by a lorry on the B6105 near East Gordon in the Scottish Borders at around 8.05am on January 31 - with police appealing for information

Honshu the Japanese macaque survived for five days in the Scottish Highlands after escaping from the Highland Wildlife Park in the Cairngorms and was lured back into a cage with a Yorkshire pudding

The crash near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire during August, 2020 was the result of a series of 'failings' by Network Railway, who were fined £6.7million over the fatal incident

A 24-year-old man suffered life-changing facial injuries, police said, after he was violently mauled by a dog in Edinburgh yesterday evening but the animal and its owner have since vanished