From the 19th – 21st October 2023, Storm Babet hit Scotland with strong winds and heavy rainfall. Nowhere faced as much turmoil as Brechin, a small city at the centre of a prolonged Red weather warning. After hours of unrelenting heavy rainfall and high winds, The River Esk, which runs adjacent to the South of the […]
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A trans woman has been jailed for abducting and sexually assaulting a young girl. The woman, Amy George, was given a 20-year sentence at the high court in Edinburgh after offering her victim a lift home. Instead, she drove the child to her own house, where she subjected the primary school pupil to a horrifying
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Well, whenever they specifically decide so. In a story that’s flown under the radar this month, SNP councillor Kairin Van Sweeden has resigned from the SNP after she called Labour councillor Deena Tissera a “New Scot.” This comment rattled the Sri Lankan, who said the remarks were “nothing less than racism.” She also called for
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It seems the Torys can’t help themselves. Given their catastrophic loss in popularity over the last few years, restoring public faith in the floundering party would take nothing short of a miracle. They certainly don’t want any more bad press, yet here we are with another story of harassment and seediness. Old habits die hard,
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The Met Police are hunting down two women who attended a pro-Palestine demonstration in London at the weekend. The women were photographed wearing jacket patches, which appear to depict paragliders. The images may be about the motorised paragliders used by Hamas to attack targets in Israel last weekend, including over 200 people killed at a
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Public support for our ongoing involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict has waned. The people of this nation are war-weary; given the current financial climate, priorities are elsewhere. Although Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden have pledged their respective government’s continued commitment, political rhetoric aside, the Western public has grown tired of the conflict. Though there is
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We have seen every excuse under the sun for why we can’t ever remove any foreign national from our nation. No matter what the crime. The vilest sex offenders, the mass murderers, Islamic terrorists, fraudsters, no matter what they have done, we cannot remove foreign people from our shores. It’s against their human rights. Unless
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So, “journalists” at the Ferret have run another hit piece on myself and Simon about our involvement with local community councils. I put the quotation marks around the word journalist because these chaps are about as journalistically qualified as myself, never leaving the house to do anything remotely journalist esq. Instead, they sit online, getting
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Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, has said his wife’s parents have become trapped in Gaza after visiting an elderly relative. Mr Yousaf, who has roundly condemned the recent actions of Hamas, said, “As many will know, my wife is Palestinian. Her mum and dad, my in-laws, who live in Dundee, live in Scotland. They’ve been in
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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was criticised after he unveiled plans to see teachers overseeing supervised teeth brushing in schools with high tooth decay. Starmer has faced opposition from the chief of the National Association of Headteachers, with general secretary Paul Whiteman saying: “This week we have seen guidance on mobile phones from Government and
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