Driver jailed for killing pensioner crossing Glasgow road
A man who knocked down and killed a 78-year-old pedestrian has been jailed for three years and nine months. Sergej Rutkovskij ploughed into Robert Taylor on Glasgow's Gallowgate, at its junction with...
View ArticleNew Year's Honours list 2016 in full
Here is the full list of recipients in the New Year's Honours list 2016. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, CIVIL Share Go To DBE (Dame) Professor Lesley Jean Fallowfield. Director, Sussex Health Outcomes...
View ArticleAlberta man risks life using experimental drugs – then writes online reviews
Many of the 45 vials contain research chemicals, experimental drugs that produce euphoria. Swaths of them are not regulated by federal laws. Some are available for sale only on the dark web. An...
View ArticleNew Year's honours 2016: the full list
The new knights, dames, MBEs and OBEs in the UK and overseas...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleThe most unmissable culture of 2016
Tarantino goes bounty-hunting, Botticelli takes you to hell, Bowie goes dark, and Jericho fills that Downton-shaped hole … in our bumper guide to the best 150 arts events to look forward to this year...
View ArticleDrug-drive changes and "drugalysers" come into force
New regulations aimed at stopping people driving while on drugs have come into force in England and Wales. For the first time, motorists face prosecution if they exceed limits set for the presence of...
View ArticleIrish man murdered in London by attacker high on synthetic drug
A Tesco worker has been found guilty of smashing in a stranger’s head with a brick while high on a synthetic drug. Malachi Lindo, 27, had taken ethylone before he attacked 51-year-old Philip Steels in...
View ArticleMan jailed for fatally stabbing his father in Glasgow flat
A man who admitted fatally stabbing his father has been jailed for four years. Robert Montgomery, 32, attacked Alan Montgomery during a row at his father's flat in Parnie Street, in Glasgow city...
View ArticleChina bans sale of flakka, other synthetic drugs
Confronted with bad publicity and intense pressure from abroad, China has banned the sale of more than 100 synthetic drugs — including alpha-PVP, better known as flakka, a disorienting stimulant that...
View ArticleMore than 130 people questioned in Glasgow shooting probe
15 May 2015 From the section Glasgow & West Scotland The shooting incident took place on Royston Road Police investigating a shooting and an unrelated attack in Glasgow have spoken to more than 130...
View ArticleNEW - FHP: Drunken driver hits trooper, two patrolcars
MANATEE COUNTY - A 69-year-old Bradenton woman is accused of driving drunk and hitting two law enforcement vehicles and a Florida Highway Patrol trooper with her car. Enlarge | Dianne K. Perry Manatee...
View ArticleMan admits fatally stabbing his father in Glasgow flat
A man is facing a jail term after he admitted fatally stabbing his father. Robert Montgomery, 32, attacked Alan Montgomery during a row at his father's flat in Parnie Street, in Glasgow city centre, on...
View ArticleLand Rover driven into Glasgow man’s car in ‘targeted attack’
A MAN was chased and assaulted after a Land Rover was driven into his car in what police say was a "deliberate, targeted attack”. The 26-year-old was in his black Volkswagen Golf...
View ArticleGlasgow bin lorry crash driver 'would have been deemed unfit to drive'
Doctor who assessed Harry Clarke for renewal of his HGV licence tells inquiry he would have been considered unfit if he disclosed history of fainting...
View ArticleCarrbridge drink driver jailed for causing friend's death
A drink driver who caused the death of a friend in a crash has been jailed for three years and nine months at the High Court in Edinburgh. Daniel Ritchie, 25, of Carrbridge, had earlier admitted...
View ArticlePolice confirm shots fired in Glasgow operation
Police have said "shots” heard in Glasgow were fired into tyres as part of an operation. Police Scotland said their officers were carrying out an operation in the Robroyston area of the city on Friday...
View ArticleFour men arrested over Glasgow cocaine and heroin haul
Four men have been arrested after cocaine, ecstasy and heroin worth...
View ArticleFormer FIU student faces prison for smuggling Molly from China
David McConnell says he didn’t dream of becoming a drug dealer. After all, he graduated from the collegiate high school at Miami Dade College and nearly completed his business degree as an honors...
View ArticleKilled wharfie affected by 'cocktail of drugs'
A wharfie killed in a ship's hold in Lyttelton late last year was affected by a cocktail of prescribed and non-prescribed drugs, an inquiry has found. Warren John Ritchie, 49, received fatal crush...
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