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A dangerous driver who caused his passenger horrendous injuries after a high speed crash in atrocious weather has narrowly avoided jail.

Sisters Sarah McDermott and Eileen Igoe, both 79, subjected the youngsters to terrifying ordeals.

Two nuns and a care worker who abused vulnerable youngsters at a notorious Scottish orphanage have been jailed for three years each.

Sister Sarah McDermott (pictured), 79, Sister Eileen Igoe, 79, and carer Margaret Hughes, 76, terrorised children in their care at the notorious Smyllum Park in Lanark between 1969 and 1981.

SIR – If the latest poll comes as a surprise to Conservative MPs (“Tories facing 1997-style wipeout”, report, January 15), therein lies the problem. In their Westminster cocoon, they have completely lost touch with voters and their concerns, instead wasting their time virtue-signalling on net zero and the Rwanda policy (which would be unnecessary had the Tories done anything about illegal migration over the past decade). A succession of at best inept and at worst dishonest p...

Christopher Morrison wept with relief as the jury's verdict was delivered and outside said he was “grateful" for their decision.

Christopher Morrison broke down and openly wept as he described the moment he knocked Robert Cowie off his bike.

Christopher Morrison, 41, denies causing the death of Robert Cowie by driving carelessly in December 2020.

Christopher Morrison, from Aberdeen, has gone on trial accused of causing the death of Boddam cyclist Robert Cowie by careless driving.

A century ago on December 2 the BBC aired its first Gaelic programme shortly after the opening of the broadcaster's Belmont Street studios in Aberdeen. And there's a range of content to mark that pioneering broadcast from Station 2BD - as the inaugural BBC radio station in the Granite City was called – and to