All news by author: Sarah Vesty

Joan Frances Boyle was barely able to move after injuring herself while insulating a cabin ceiling at her home in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, and was rushed to A&E

Austin Riley, aged 15 months, was crying hysterically, thrashing around and frantically pulling at his onesie when his mum collected him from Firtrees Nursery in Motherwell

Ann Baker, 75, had been out walking her beloved eight-year-old Missy when she was set upon and attacked by two aggressive Staffordshire Bull Terriers who savaged her so badly she died, and even bit the pensioner too

Murdered gangster Marc Webley's brother Don Webley has been charged with an alleged attack on a taxi driver in West Lothian, Scotland, alongside ex-Livingston footballer Jordyn Sheerin

The Japanese macaque found a way out from his enclosure at the Highland Wildlife Park in Scotland on Sunday after being spooked by a fight with a rival primate

Wildfires took hold near Assynt, Scottish Highlands, on Sunday afternoon as the region was battered by monster gusts of up to 70mph, but temperatures exceeded 19C

Greig 'Stodge' Stoddart's family suffered an agonising three-week ordeal over Christmas, during which they hit out as a lack of resources delayed Police Scotland's search effort

Lourdes Secondary School in Cardonald was locked down by police shortly before 2pm on Friday. Police Scotland confirmed a teenager was charged and is due in court later this month

Greig 'Stodge' Stoddart, 43, got into difficulty while angling with a friend on Christmas Eve, with his friends body recovered but he still missing

Two people have been arrested over the murder of Edinburgh gangster Marc Webley after he was gunned down in an alleged targeted hit outside a pub on New Year's Eve

The 18-year-old is deaf and was brutally beaten by almost twelve youths following the New Year Fife derby between Dunfermline Athletic and Raith Rovers

Eccentric lotto winner Paul Maddison, who scooped an £11m prize in 1995 when he shared the jackpot with his business partner, has died after years of living a reclusive life in Scotland

Craig Hodgkins, a former constable in Edinburgh, hid behind a cloak of respectability in public during the eight years in which he abused his child, Rhanna Latham

Former cop Jack Brownlee, 29 was found guilty of assaulting a man by smacking him with a baton and for driving recklessly during a high speed chase in Fife. He was fined £300 and banned from the roads for a year

Jamie Bryson, 27, was brutally attacked by relative Declan Keyes and died twice in the back of an ambulance in Airdrie, Scotland, before undergoing emergency surgery in hospital

Paula Black, 39, from Hamilton, died following a severe stroke just months after her husband Jon-Jo Terry from a heart attack leaving their five children without parents

The Forsyth family found themselves ejected from their Jet2 flight and say they were treated 'like criminals' after trying to help their daughter, Halle, 10, with a medical emergency

Heriot Watt University academic Dr Mohammed Alshurafa saw a rocket strike his home in Gaza as he watched footage of the attacks on TV, not knowing whether his family were inside

A Facebook account set up by the clown - calling himself Cole Deimos - posted images of himself in the darkened streets of the village

The teenager, from Friockheim, was rushed to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee but discharged just hours later with what medics described as a 'squashed vertebrae'

Both children, then aged three and 10, were in the attack while their dog Mini, a miniature Yorkshire Terrier was fatally injured during the incident last January

Debbie Duffus, 54, from Tomintoul, Scotland, suffered crush injuries after a cow turned on her as she tried to help its newborn calf leaving the farmer to crawl back to the farmhouse

Steven Morrison was at Stornoway Airport when he began to suffer what he thought was indigestion but turned out to be a "massive" heart attack and he was saved thanks to the quick actions of staff

Laura McCormack, 41, tipped the scales at 17st 10, but is now embracing her new gym bunny lifestyle after dropping from a size 22 to an 8 in just five months

Robert Campbell had been due to fly home last Thursday after enjoying his first-ever holiday abroad but missed his flight after falling unwell in Lanzarote