Good evening and welcome to today's Daily Record headline briefing. The rundown keeps you up to date with the latest news from Scotland and beyond.
Today's top headlines include: Junior doctor facing deportation before starting job, prison officer probed for sectarian incident and Gangster linked to Daniel crime clan 'behind sex attacks on inmates who owe debt'.
Here is everything you need to know to keep up to date.
Junior doctor facing deportation before starting job with Scots health board
A junior doctor was stopped at Edinburgh Airport and is now facing deportation over issues with his Visa. The doc, who trained as a doctor in the UK, but is not a UK passport holder, was returning from a holiday abroad with friends when he was held by border force at Edinburgh Airport on Tuesday.
He now faces deportation from Scotland this weekend after he was meant to start a placement at a Scottish health board. He faces deportation from Scotland this weekend after he was meant to start a placement at a Scottish health board.
Earlier this year he was interviewed for a junior doctor role and got the job, which was due to start on Tuesday. He was expecting to be issued with a visa to work in the country but has yet to receive it.
Scots prison officer probed after marching through cell block 'singing The Sash and waving Union Jack'
A prison officer faces the sack after being accused of marching around a cell block singing The Sash and waving a Union Jack. Police are probing claims the warden also shouted sectarian abuse after bad blood developed between him and some prisoners at Low Moss jail, near Bishopbriggs, Glasgow.
It is alleged that the officer, 31, ignored his colleagues’ pleas to stop. He is believed to have made a flagpole from a brush handle, which he used to wave a Union Jack.
The jail’s governor called in police and the warden was charged with an alleged sectarian hate crime. He is understood to be suspended from duties pending further investigations.
Gangster linked to Daniel crime clan 'behind sex attacks on inmates who owe debt'
A gangster with links to the Daniel crime family is behind a series of sex attacks on prison inmates, it has been claimed.
The convicted drug baron has been blamed for orchestrating sickening violent and indecent assaults on men who fall into debt behind bars. Allegations were made by a prisoner who says he was a victim.
He said: “It is what it is, I’m not ashamed.” The man made the claims to fellow inmates who appeared to secretly film him inside HMP Perth as he gave a disturbing account of his ordeal.
Two dead and woman and four children in hospital after horror head-on crash on Scots road
Two people have died and four children are in hospital after a horror head-on collision on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
Emergency services scrambled to the A71 near East Calder, after the alarm was raised at around 1pm on Wednesday, August 3. Officers had received a report of a head on collision between a black Audi A6 and a black Mercedes GLC on the road.
Ambulance crews attended but the occupants of the Audi, an 80-year-old man and a 64-year-old woman, were pronounced dead at the scene. Their family has been informed. The occupants of the Mercedes car - a 29-year-old female driver and four children aged 3, 9, 10 and 14 - were rushed to hospital.
Scots OAP 'swiped sick girlfriend's life savings to make his life better', jury told
A pensioner accused of embezzling his ill girlfriend's life savings used her money as his own "to make his future brighter", a jury was told yesterday. William Dunn, 69, denies swiping £112,971.46 from his partner of three years, former Beatson cancer nurse Lynda Grant, 63.
The money he is accused of illegally taking was made up of her savings, cash from the sale of her house, NHS pension and PIP payments. His Paisley Sheriff Court trial heard he sent the money from Lynda's accounts to Karen Dolan, 59, while Lynda was ill.
After sending Dolan the money the pair married, without Lynda's knowledge, at "a fancy, plush hotel".
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