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A “DRUNKEN prank gone wrong” involving lighting aerosol can spray which burned a sleeping party-goer on the arm has resulted in a man being ordered to pay £1,000 compensation. David Sandison, of Lerwick’s North Lochside, was also fined £450 when he appeared at the...

DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Alexis Dowdell’s Sweet 16 birthday party ended with her kneeling beside her fatally wounded brother on the blood-slicked floor of a dance studio in small-town Alabama, the bodies of other wounded teens scattered around them.Dowdell told the story of Saturday’s terror in Dadeville to The Associated Press on Monday surrounded by family. The shooting left

A MAN from Fife whose “amateur” attempt at supplying heroin to Shetland failed last June narrowly escaped a prison sentence when he appeared at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday. Police became aware of Kris McLean when they stopped his car on Lerwick’s Commercial Road for...

A LOCAL building contractor has been fined £9,000 for serious health and safety failings which left a worker with severe injuries.  Whiteness-based G&A Leask pleaded guilty to a breach of the work at height regulations 2005 at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday. Company...

A YOUNG Lerwick man avoided jail by the “smallest of margins” when he appeared for sentencing at the town’s sheriff court on Wednesday. Cory Williamson had previously admitted four charges, including assaulting police officers in two separate incidents and breaching bail...

A DRUGS courier carrying heroin and cocaine with a potential street value of more than £13,000 has been sent to jail for 16 months. Michael Gallagher, with an address at Old Caley Road, Irvine, pleaded guilty to two charges of attempting to supply Class A drugs when he appeared...

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A slice of sunshine. but then we will see cloud rolling into northern ireland and maybe some rain into western counties later on in the day. temperatures, well, a little higher than they have been of late, 10 degrees in lerwick, 15 perhaps as the high in glasgow. and then as we head through saturday night, we will see this zone of cloud with some areas of rainfall moving across northern ireland. and then turning cloudy for many other western parts as well, where we keep some clear skies towards ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Frantic calls from witnesses reporting a mass shooting at a Louisville bank were released Wednesday by police — including from a woman who was on a virtual meeting and saw the shooter, as well as one from the man's mother, who told a 911 operator that her son “currently has a gun and is heading toward” the bank.“I need your help. He’s never hurt anyone,

And maybe some rain into western counties later on in the day. temperatures, well, a little higher than they have been of late, — 10 degrees in lerwick, 15 perhaps as the high in glasgow. and then, as we head through saturday night, we will see this zone of cloud with some areas of rainfall moving across northern ireland and then turning cloudy for many other western parts as well. where we keep some clear skies towards the south—east corner, well, there could be a touch of frost in one or t...