Ayrshire Post

11 hours ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Andrew Quinn

EXCLUSIVE: Party insiders said the veteran Nationalist would have beaten Emma Roddick in the internal vote. Fergus Ewing would have won the SNP candidate selection contest for Inverness and Nairn if he had stood, party figures have said. The veteran Nationalist announced on Friday that he would stand as an independent at next year's Holyrood election. Ewing will go up against current Highlands and Islands MSP Emma Roddick - who won the SNP contest.

18 hours ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Cara Blackhall |John-Paul Clark

The casualty was rushed to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary this morning. A casualty was rushed to hospital in Edinburgh after an incident near a Co-op supermarket in Edinburgh. Emergency services were scrambled the scene at Dalry Road in the city at around 10.30am this morning, June 20, reports Edinburgh Live. No information is available on their condition at this stage, but the patient was transported to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. The exact nature of the incident remains unclear.

20 hours ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | John-Paul Clark

Valerie Dyer was last seen in the Carrbridge area and was wearing a distinctive white floppy hat. A frantic search has been launched in an effort to trace a Scots pensioner. Valerie Dyer, 81, was last seen around 2.30pm on Friday, June, 20 in the area of Dalnahaitnach Hill, Carrbridge, in the Highland. Cops describe Valeria as white, 5 ft 6 in tall and is of slim build. She was wearing dark blue trousers, a light blue blouse and a white floppy hat when she was last seen.

21 hours ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | John-Paul Clark

Michael Riley, 44, appeared in court in the latest stage of the extradition proceedings. The man accused of gunning down Eddie Lyons and Ross Monaghan in Spain appeared in court today. Michael Terrence Riley from the Merseyside area, was arrested by local officers last week in connection with the deaths after an international arrest warrant was issued by Spanish cops.

21 hours ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Sam Truelove |John-Paul Clark

Baby Luka was at the park with his mum and her pals when the evil brute attacked. A heartless thug who poured boiling hot coffee over a nine-month old baby boy is still on the run, with cops insisting they are "working hard" to try and find the attacker nearly one year on. Nine-month-old Luka was with his mum and her pals at a picnic at Hanlon Park in Coorparoo, Brisbane, Australia, when a man, unknown to the group, threw coffee over the infant.