All news by author: Kris Gourlay

Ian Heddle, 61, originally from Dunfermline but living in Thailand, played football for St Johnstone and Dunfermline Athletic among others in the eighties and nineties

The 41-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene on Princes Street in Scotland on Saturday night after suddenly falling ill, despite the best efforts of emergency service workers

EasyJet confirmed there had been an incident on one of its flights to the Canary Islands and said police met the plane as a result of one passenger "behaving disruptively"

Mum-of-one Heather Cuthbertson has thanked her boss and doctors at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh who helped save her life and her eyesight following a near-deadly kidney infection

Louise Brown, 40, and her partner Daren Devries, 49, were horrified to find dozens of the creatures were crawling up their walls during the night and they now have rashes and struggle to breathe

Kieran Smart was just 14 when he was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma, a type of cancer that can affect both the pelvis and lungs and is more frequent in young males

Residents living near Murrayfield in Scotland say Beyoncé concertgoers were using their gardens as toilets, with one woman saying she received abuse after confronting a stranger

Terry Fairley had returned home from the pub and gone to the toilet, only leap up in shock after he saw the reptile slithering along the floor of his West Lothian home

Isobel Scott, 15, had lied to her her parents when she told them she was going to the cinema for the evening – but ended up on a ship bound for Casablanca in western Morocco

A small and strang symptom found on a man in Edinburgh led to a cancer diagnosis. Now in remission, Graeme Clark, 34, is encouraging people to get checked out as early as they can

A video recorded by an eye-witness at the scene captured the moment an explosion was heard coming from the Edinburgh Central Mosque building