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Edinburgh woman goes viral on Twitter over passive aggressive note

Keli Thomson, 24, had an emergency refit at her home in Edinburgh while her landlord was on holiday, but the rubble was left in her garden. An angry neighbour took issue with the mess.




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Barclays creating 2,500 jobs in Glasgow at new technology hub

The bank is building a 470,000 sq ft office complex – the size of eight football pitches – by the River Clyde. There will be no redundancies amid the changes.




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James McAvoy's brother charged with stealing a car

Donald McAvoy, 28, who shares a father with the X-Men actor, allegedly stole the car in April from outside a house in Scotland and is behind bars another three weeks until he appears in court.




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Pictures reveal dolphin survived extreme sunburn on Aberdeen shore

Spirtle, the bottlenose dolphin was found stranded on mudflats in the Cromarty Firth, Moray, in 2016. She was out of the water for more than 24 hours and suffered extensive sunburn.




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Holidaymaker saves bull after startling it into spitting out bag

Gran-of-two Elaine Armstrong, 53, said she took the pictures of the bull on the Isle of Mull to highlight just how damaging dumping rubbish can be to the environment and wildlife




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Love Island's Laura Anderson gets new beau Paul Knops in a kilt

The blonde beauty, 29, took to her Instagram to share a snap of her beau, 31, clad in a bright orange number, as they enjoyed a spot of shopping during the tour of her home town.




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Love Island's Laura Anderson cosies up to new beau Paul Knops

Laura Anderson and Paul Knops looked closer than ever as they cosied up at villa mate Eyal Booker's 23rd birthday bash in London on Friday.




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The Queen arrives at Balmoral Castle at start of annual summer break

The 92-year-old monarch looked typically elegant in a sky blue ensemble as she arrived at the gates of Balmoral, Scotland, where she inspects the guard of honour before entering the Castle at the start of her annual holiday.




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Mother sues Glasgow beauty salon claiming hair wash caused a stroke

Adele Burns, 47, was left unable to see or move 24 hours after a nightmare visit to Rainbow Rooms in Glasgow where stylists struggled to get her colour and cut right.




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Scotland could soon be able to make Amazon pay higher taxes

In a pilot scheme, Scottish town halls can introduce the supplement, dubbed a ‘Robin Hood tax’ because it takes from rich online giants and gives to beleaguered town centre stores.




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The Queen is joined by Princess Beatrice at church in Balmoral

The monarch was joined by her granddaughter Princess Beatrice for the Sunday service at Crathie Kirk church this morning.




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Euromillions winner Gillian Bayford marries man nine years her junior

Former healthcare assistant Gillian Bayford, who got married at the Fairmont Hotel near St Andrews, Fife, won the huge Euromillions prize with previous husband Adrian Bayford in 2012.




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Bull charges out of a public toilet on the Shetland Islands

The bull had escaped from a nearby farm and briefly hid out in a gents toilets on the Shetland Islands in Scotland before deciding to make a break for it.




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Top 10 jokes from this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe are revealed

The Jobcentre is not the most likely place to provide inspiration for a stand-up comic.But the gag, by Adam Rowe, won the annual award for funniest joke at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.




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First dinosaur footprints on mainland Scotland were left by sauropods

Sauropods roamed during the Middle Jurassic period and were discovered in a secret location around Inverness. The only previous evidence of dinosaurs in Scotland was from the Isle of Skye.




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Man returns to Edinburgh spot where he parked car only to find hole

A motorist returned to the Edinburgh street where he left his car only to find a giant hole after Scottish Power contractors moved it - and he then spent 12 hours trying to find it.




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Scottish mother says inhaling cannabis oil cured her eczema

Cheryl Halliburton, 27, from Elgin in Scotland suffered from extreme eczema after falling pregnant with her daughter four years ago, and turned to CBD oil after doctors could not help her.




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Floss dance by boy, 8, steals the show as parents cut wedding cake

Newly-wed Stacey and Brian Paterson, from Falkirk, Scotland only realised they had been upstaged by son Jay, 8, days later when watching the video back.




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Scottish baronial mansion transformed into 'pop art' paradise

The Gart, in Perthshire, dates all the way back to 1835. An original, smaller house was designed on the site by William Burn, and was substantially rebuilt and enlarged after a fire in 1901.




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Supporters of Somer and Areeb Umeed Bakhsh raise 85k-strong petition

Somer and Areeb Umeed Bakhsh, aged 15 and 13, fled to Glasgow with their parents in 2012. 85,000 have signed a petition supporting them after they were threatened with deportation to Pakistan.




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Boy dies after falling from mountain in the Scottish Highlands 

Timothy Murray, 16, of West Yorkshire, was found dead after hiking Stac Pollaidh, north of Ullapool in Scotland on Sunday. He was found dead hours after another teen plunged to his death in Wales.




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Scottish voters could back splitting from the UK after Brexit

The findings - by the pro EU Best for Britain - will fuel claims that pursuing a hard Brexit risks breaking up the United Kingdom. The poll found a 47-43 pro Independence split after Brexit.




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Ex-Scottish footballer Ally McCoist's son in hit-and-run in Bishopton

Argyll McCoist, 20, (pictured) was uninsured when he ran a red light and hit 21-year-old Stephen Murdoch in his £20,000 Audi in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, before driving off.




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Outrage as Scotland's national dish rebranded 'Great British Haggis'

Stahly Quality Foods, based in Fife, has come under fire following the launch of the new product (pictured) with some describing it as a 'betrayal' and others labelling it 'wrong, very wrong'.




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Glasgow father battling cancer whose benefits were cut died at 56

Joseph MacMillan from Glasgow was deemed fit to work while also suffering from diabetes, pancreatitis and heart problems as he suffered from cancer that left him needing his nose amputated.




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Ibiza holidaymaker accused of sex with 14-year-old boy on balcony

Gail Dickinson, (pictured) of Glenrothes, Fife, was allegedly seen by the victim's grandmother having sex on the balcony of an apartment in San Antonio, Ibiza in June last year.




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Gail Dickinson 59 of Fife Scotland accused of sex with boy 14 on holiday in Ibiza cleared not guilty

Gail Dickinson, of Glenrothes, Fife, was allegedly seen by the victim's grandmother having sex on the balcony of an apartment in San Antonio in Ibiza. But today she was cleared.




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Scottish Building firm slammed for 'glamourising rape culture' 

Core Drilling Specialist Limited (CDS Ltd) have been branded 'misogynistic' after displaying the offensive picture onto the side of a generator in Edinburgh city centre.




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Charles and Camilla visit refurbished tea rooms in Glasgow

The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall - or of Rothesay as they are known in Scotland - paid a visit to the Willow Tea Rooms on Sauchiehall Street, which date back to 1903, on Friday.




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Remote Scottish Highlands home with private beach on sale for £750k

The vast estate, which is perfect for those seeking solitude or just a break from the rat race, is on a picturesque peninsula in the Highlands often described as 'Britain's last wilderness'.




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Gleneagles Hotel robbers face jail for raid

Richard Fleming and Liam Richardson carried hammers, a machete and a pistol when they raided Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Perthshire, on June 27 last year.




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Sewers in Fife to be 'put on a diet' to help prevent fatbergs

Scottish Water has now launched a new pilot project in Fife, which, if successful, will be rolled out to other parts of the country.




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Furious locals object to Trump's £150m village on Scottish golf resort

The property mogul has proposed a build of luxury housing, including 50 hotel cottages, a gym, an equestrian centre, shops and offices at the Menie estate near Balmedie.




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Prince Philip is spotted driving around Balmoral in his Land Rover

Philip proved he's still king of the road at 97 after he took his Land Rover for a drive on the A93 near Balmoral. The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are still enjoying their annual summer break.




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Storm Ali appears to 'breathe' in garden paving slabs in Scotland

Storm Ali crept underneath a grassy front garden and uprooted a huge tree in Scotland. Liz Reid filmed as her garden path and surrounding grass regularly lifted and fell from the wind.




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The Queen arrives at Crathie Kirk as her Balmoral break draws to a close

The monarch, 92, arrived at the chapel on the Balmoral estate in Scotland this morning accompanied by her nephew David Armstrong-Jones in the rear of the car.




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Glasgow scammer who stole £113million from High Street bank customers

In just two-and-a-half years, Feezan Choudhary, from Pollokshields, managed to preside over the theft of an astonishing £113million from 750 hapless victims.




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Bodyguard's Richard Madden plans to 'ESCAPE' to Scottish hideaway

Almost 11 million viewers tuned in for Sunday's gripping finale of the hit BBC One series written by Jed Mercurio.




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Missing teen girl caught on CCTV with man in Edinburgh

Courtney Booth, 15, who went missing from her home in Doncaster a week ago has been captured on CCTV with 25-year-old Tom Fallon, whom police would like to speak to in connection with her disappearance.




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Microwave spotted outside a rural Scotland home being used as post box

Bev Macleod spotted the microwave perched on two posts and strapped tightly in place with rope while completing a charity walk in Moray, Scotland.




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World's most expensive bottle of whisky made in 1926 sells for £850k

The 60-year-old Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 sold for a record-breaking £848,750 when it went under the hammer today at Bonhams Whisky Sale in Edinburgh.




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Robert Blomfield's images capture Edinburgh in the 1960s

Robert Blomfield had practiced photography across the UK from the 1950s to the 1970s and started capturing the beauty of Edinburgh when he moved to the city to study medicine.




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Scottish woman is deported from the US for having sex with a boy

Sarah McGill, a 28-year-old hypnotherapist from Galashiels in Selkirkshire, Scotland, was arrested in Florida in April.




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Scotland's first spaceport could launch its first rocket by 2020

The project in Sutherland, on Scotland's north coast, will initially host launches of rockets and satellites, but commercial passenger trips could then follow.




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Two former buses now form luxury lodgings on Scotland's Bankrugg Farm

Aptly, this hotel on Bankrugg Farm in East Lothian is called The Bus Stop. Each bus has king-size beds, a spacious kitchen, and there is even a mini-bus that is now used as a chicken coop.




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Italian father who went missing from PISA found in Edinburgh 

Salvatore Mannino, 52, was rushed to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh on September 20, after being taken ill in St Giles' Cathedral. The father-of-four disappeared from Pisa, Italy, the day before.




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Two men who carried out £500,000 Rolex robbery at prestigious Gleneagles Hotel are jailed

Richard Fleming, 42, and Liam Richardson, 30, were part of a three man team which stole dozens of Rolex watches from the hotel in Scotland in June, 2017 in a raid caught on CCTV (pictured)




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Scottish starfish have been feeding on plastic since 1976

Researchers at the Scottish Association for Marine Science in Oban looked through samples from the Rockall Trough, an area of deep sea off the west coast of Scotland.




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Ruth Davidson 'delighted' after she gives birth to boy

Ms Davidson said she and her partner Jen Wilson were 'delighted' after the infant's safe arrival at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary this morning.




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Euromillions winner Gillian Bayford puts £735k waterfront home up for sale

Gillian Bayford, who split a £148million win on the Euromillions with ex-husband Adrian in 2012 before they split up, has put a luxury waterfront home near Dundee up for sale.