1+ day, 59+ min ago   (337+ words) THIS week, our Ayrshire Weekly Press titles have covered cases from Ayr and Kilmarnock sheriff courts, as well as the High Court in Glasgow. A nuisance who repeatedly disrupted deliveries of wind farm components in Ayrshire for more than a…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (759+ words) Police officers and Army veterans came together to pay their respects to a former colleague and comrade who was killed on duty in a horrific crash on the A66. Hundreds gathered for the ceremony at Kirkleatham Walled Gardens in Redcar, Teesside,…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (363+ words) A SERIAL criminal is back behind bars after he pulled a gun during a car sale in Ayrshire. Kyle Allison, 33, robbed George Rae at gunpoint after the victim wanted to buy a Ford Fiesta he had advertised online. The pair…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (375+ words) A TOOLED-UP thug who used an axe to fracture a man's skull in an attack at a Cumnock pub has been jailed. Allan McCall and an unidentified accomplice, who was wearing a balaclava during the incident earlier this year, assaulted…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (698+ words) A list of explosives made by triple killer Valdo Calocane was not disclosed by Nottinghamshire Police until more than three years after the paranoid schizophrenic went on a deadly rampage. The former mechanical engineering student also searched online for large…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (523+ words) The death of a student who was stabbed by paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane was potentially preventable if he had different medical treatment at the scene of the attack, a panel of experts found. Calocane was detained under mental health laws…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (250+ words) Two thieves stole four valuable Renoir paintings from a small museum on the French Riviera, but abandoned two of them as they fled, the local mayor has said. Police are searching for the offenders. Surveillance camera footage identified two people…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1101+ words) Official vehicles were damaged and a handful of police officers injured during a stand-off with masked anti-migration protesters in Portsmouth. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary have launched an investigation into potential assaults and criminal damage after black-clad activists attempted…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (823+ words) Giovanni Pernice has said the BBC’s investigation into Amanda Abbington’s allegations on Strictly Come Dancing was “the right thing to do”. The BBC dancing programme was the subject of a review in 2024 after the actress alleged that Pernice, her professional…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (778+ words) More than one in 10 children aged 13 to 15 are likely to have received at least one sexual message online in the past year, a survey suggests. While most of these messages came from children of their own age, around a fifth…...