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Teenage girl dies after getting into difficulty in Scots river
A teenage girl has tragically died after getting into difficulty in a Scots river. Emergency services were called to the River Teith near Carse of Lecropt Road in the Bridge of Allan, Stirling, at 5.5pm on Tuesday, July 12.
Medics attended and rushed the 14-year-old to the Royal Children's Hospital in Glasgow by helicopter. Police have since confirmed that she sadly passed away in hospital four days later.
Specialist officers are providing support to her family. A report is due to be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.
Stunned Scot wakes up in wrong city after Caledonian Sleeper train fails to leave Glasgow station
A Scots who boarded a sleeper train in Glasgow expecting to travel to London was left stunned when he woke to find the train didn't leave the station. Jim Metcalfe said he woke up in the wrong city after he and other Caledonian Sleeper passengers were left to snooze without knowing the train had been cancelled.
Mr Metcalfe, a charity chief executive based in East Renfrewshire, was due to travel to London for work on the Caledonian Sleeper service at 11.40pm on July 20. The 43-year-old uses the service occasionally throughout the year for business trips.
But he was left speechless when he was awakened in the morning by rail staff who told him the train hadn't moved all night. Staff later told him services had been cancelled due to tracks being impacted by the soaring temperatures.
He said: "I can't sleep before it starts moving so I get on early and try to sleep first, so I got on at 10.30pm and was asleep by 11pm. That was it really. There was a knock on the door at 5am and a guy very kindly appeared with a roll and sausage and coffee. He explained the train hadn't moved.
"We were told we had to get off because they needed the platform back. It was more surreal than anything else - I should have been 300 miles away."
Drugs kingpin used nursing home as factory to traffic £11m of amphetamines
A former fugitive who used a nursing home as a factory for a major drugs operation admitted trafficking in amphetamines today. Police seized over £11 million worth of the drug linked to Mark Quinn in a series of raids carried out in Scotland and Merseyside.
During a search at Aldergrange Nursing Home, in Eaton Road, in Liverpool, they discovered it was being used to prepare and bulk out the drugs for onward supply.
Advocate depute David McLean said specialist drugs officers noted that an organised crime gang was not only adulterating amphetamine at the premises but also producing amphetamine sulphate from amphetamine oil.
The prosecutor told the High Court in Edinburgh: "They noted that this shows a level of sophistication rarely encountered, and is representative of an established organised criminal network, which operates at the upper levels of drug supply and trafficking."
The court heard that a warrant was originally issued for Quinn, 58, in 2014 and after he disappeared a European arrest warrant was issued the following year.
Scots doctor struck off for leaving busy A&E ward to have nap is given licence back
A Scots doctor who was struck off for going AWOL from a busy A&E ward to go for a nap has been handed her licence back after a court ruled her punishment was too unfair. Dr Raisah Sawati was found sleeping on the job when there were patients who needed to be seen.
After two hours of being missing, her colleagues found her snoozing on a bench in the female hospital changing room, with a blanket wrapped over her. At a Medical Practitioners Tribunal last year, a panel stripped 33-year-old Dr Sawati of her medical licence by removing her from the register.
However, a High Court judge quashed the decision and now the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service [MPTS] has U-turned on its ruling. Instead, at a new tribunal, the MPTS ruled Dr Sawati is to be suspended for six months.
It was heard the High Court quashed the decision as the original tribunal unfairly held Dr Sawati's maintaining of innocence against her. Dr Sawati, said to be from Glasgow, was originally found guilty of misconduct, dishonesty and deficient professional performance.
Scots swindler who stole £170k from elderly widow with dementia jailed for three years
A crooked financial advisor who swindled £170,000 from a Scots widow with dementia has been jailed for three years. Gordon Couch was convicted of embezzling the huge sum belonging to frail Marjorie Stewart before and after her death in an Edinburgh nursing home.
The 57-year-old admitted charging the pensioner up to £1000 a day to read bank statements to her, but claimed she was “happy” with the arrangement. But a jury last month found Couch guilty and appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday for sentencing.
Sheriff Kenneth Campbell QC told Couch he’d “deceived” an “elderly lady who trusted you implicitly”. Jailing Couch for three years, the sheriff added Couch had exploited Marjorie over a “prolonged period” while in a “position of trust”.
Earlier his solicitor, Stuart Munro, said Couch’s employers in Hong Kong were willing to take him back in a “non-client facing” role if he avoided jail. During the trial, Couch admitted levying £197-an-hour fees on vulnerable Marjorie, who died aged 91 in 2013.
The crook claimed the retired maths teacher was aware he was charging her massive amounts, adding she viewed it as “good value for money”. But the jury unanimously found him guilty of embezzling Marjorie’s fortune while holding power of attorney over her affairs and acting as executor of her estate.
