Sai Shraddha Suresh Viswanathan Sai Shraddha Suresh Viswanathan, an Indian-origin student leader and current president of the National Union of Students Scotland, has claimed she was asked to withdraw as a Scottish Green Party candidate because of her student visa status.Viswanathan had applied to contest the Holyrood election for the North East of Scotland region […]
A Scottish man who travelled to Ukraine as a military instructor has been sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison after admitting to working as a Russian spy.Ross David Cutmore, from Dunfermline in Fife, pleaded guilty in a court in Odesa to passing sensitive military information to Russia while Ukraine remained under martial law, according to […]
Steven Lyons, 45, one of Scotland’s most notorious gangland figures, is set to be deported to Spain following his arrest at Bali’s I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport on Saturday. Indonesian authorities said Lyons, who arrived on a flight from Singapore, is wanted in Spain over organised crime, drug trafficking, money laundering, and a murder […]
CAIRNS: Three Scottish brothers stepped ashore in Australia on Saturday after claiming a new record for rowing non-stop and unsupported across the Pacific Ocean, “over the moon” to be back on dry land.Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan MacLean set off in a carbon fibre dinghy from Lima in Peru in April for the 14,500 kilometres journey, […]
Trump, Golf foce one (AP, X images) During Donald Trump‘s visit to his Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire, Scotland, on Saturday, an armoured golf cart nicknamed “Golf force one” was deployed for his security. The reinforced buggy followed him throughout the game. The buggy, believed to be a reinforced Polaris Ranger XP, appeared heavily […]
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has come under fierce criticism after a video emerged where he stood in front of a Pakistani flag and called on Pakistanis to “take power in councils, parliament, political parties and countries” so that they can “dictate what’s taught in schools.”In the going-viral video, Sarwar announced, “a change is coming,” […]
