Mrs Macrae News Today

More than £220,000 of tax payer's cash has been spent on lawyers to defend three of the north and north-east's highest-profile criminals.

Serenity Brides, in Short Wyre Street, Colchester, will be flogging the cut-price dresses because there is too much stock, owner Julie Macrae said.

On this day in 1976, the search continued for missing Renee MacRae and her son Andrew as attention turned to her lover, William McDowell.

Detectives hope to find the truth about an alleged anomaly under the road - more than 40 years after the pair were murdered.

Surgeons created a ceramic and titanium plate to replace the whole in Morag MacRae's skull after she developed a brain infection.

William MacDowell killed the 36-year-old and their son Andrew, three, in 1976, in Inverness-shire. He was finally brought to justice in September but didnt reveal where he hid their bodies.

Police hope to identify properties linked to William MacDowell, who murdered his lover and their son.

The second part of the BBC documentary Murder Trial: The Disappearance of Renee and Andrew Macrae airs tonight

MacDowell is responsible for one of the most notorious crimes in Scotland. What happened to the man who killed his lover Renee MacRae and their lovechild Andew?

The weeks TV reviewed, from Murder Trial and The Price of Truth to Jane McDonald - Lost in Japan . Plus, And Just Like That, the series finale.