Richard Elias

Aamer Anwar says his Glasgow firm has been funding cases out of their own pocket after the 'pendulum swung so far' against Legal Aid and warns, 'There is no justice without defence'

SPECIAL REPORT: After a key figure in the murder of Kevin 'the Gerbil' Carroll was jailed for his part in a Scottish 'supergang' drug trafficking operation, RICHARD ELIAS looks back at arguably the biggest Glasgow gangland crime so far this century

The Scottish Police Federation say their members will begin the action – the strongest step police offiers can take as they are not allowed to strike – at 5pm on Friday evening

Sandie Butler, 40, died shortly after police were called to a 'disturbance' in the Townhead area on Tuesday afternoon, with detectives now treating the case as murder

At the 92nd General Assembly of Interpol in Glasgow, Keir Starmer vows to crack the people smuggling gangs causing death and misery in the English Channel and announces £6m of additional funding

Ten years ago, the Dornoch Firth oyster beds had bee fished to extinction... now thanks to Glenmorangie, Heriot-Watt University and the Marine Conservation Society they are on their way back

Masked youths have gone on the rampage across the capital, throwing fireworks, bricks and bottles at police, while in Glasgow a car is on fire in Pollokshields amid further trouble

Meet Eli, Luke, and Ben... three new team members have joined the Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks crew working to clear timber to make way for overhead pylons in some of Scotland's ancient forests

EXPRESS INVESTIGATES: As cocaine use increases massively in the UK, with one-in-40 a regular user, drug smugglers from home and abroad are using increasingly innovative methods to get it into the country

Susan Hitchen, the director of Operation Identify Me, tells the Scottish Daily Express how she hopes to bring justice to the 45 unidentified women, some of whom have been linked to axe killer John Sweeney