Gemma Ryder

Applications will open for a new first-time buyers fund by the end of June to take “barriers away” from buying a home, the Scottish Government has said.

One of Scotland's busiest roads has reopened after a dramatic lorry fire brought the A9 to a standstill near Dunkeld during Wednesday morning's rush hour.

Matthew Perry's live-in personal assistant, who had a central role in the Friends star's descent into ketamine addiction and injected him with the fatal dose of the drug, was sentenced to three years and five months in prison.

A woman who spent decades in agony before finally being diagnosed with arthritis says she was left “existing, not living” as doctors repeatedly dismissed her pain.

Kathy Morrison says she forced onto morphine and is one of thousands of Scots arthritis patients being left “in pain and in limbo” amid diagnosis delays.

'Life before diagnosis was a nightmare'

"I closed myself away. I didn't know how to deal with the pain, and nobody was helping me."

A Syrian asylum seeker accused of sexually assaulting two women in Falkirk told police he walked one of his alleged victims home as “an act of kindness”, a court has heard.

Muhammad Sheikhi, 23, denies sexually assaulting two women in Falkirk and told police he took “pity” on one alleged victim after finding her crying in the street, while prosecutors claimed he acted in a “predatory manner”.

The sister of a man who fell to his death after trying to escape a high-rise torture flat in Aberdeen has demanded a change in the law after emergency services were called to the scene but "failed" to help him.