Sarah Swain

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Warning sounded against high street plastic surgery

Consultants from Glasgow’s Canniesburn Plastic Surgery Unit at the Royal Infirmary said the number of cases of botched operations has risen drastically over the past five years. They said there were several examples of patients undergoing the wrong surgery or needing corrective procedures after operations went wrong.

Briton killed in luxury beach resort

The man was shot in the head as attackers broke into the couple’s accommodation at the Kiwayu Safari Village, 18 luxury cottages spread along an isolated private beach.

Riverside Museum dazzles at public opening

Despite the rain, hundreds of people flocked to the new Museum of Transport and Travel, which houses more than 3000 exhibits including trains, cars, motorbikes, buses and trams.

Here we go again

This time it’s not the Eyjafjallajokull volcano -- which caused massive disruption to flights for a week last April and left 10 million passengers stranded -- but another called the Grimsvotn volcano.

Tears and joy as 30,000 join capital marathon event

Among the crowd were cousins Sue Pilat and Jackie Thomson, who were running to raise awareness of Papyrus, a UK charity working to prevent young suicides. Jackie’s son Gowan took his own life aged just 21.