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A MARRIED teacher fled to France with a 15-year-old pupil who had a crush on him the day after police questioned her about their sexual relationship, a court has heard.

A model of Pakistani-heritage men targeting young white girls for sexual exploitation does exist and authorities must be able to freely raise concerns without fear of being labelled racist, an influential group of MPs has concluded.

POLICE were yesterday continuing efforts to identify human remains found in a shallow grave near Edinburgh Zoo.

SCOTLAND's eight police forces merged two months ago.

A FORMER intelligence officer in Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime was jailed for 15 years along with a law firm worker for raping a teenage boy in the toilets of a city centre department store.

The parents of teenager Georgia Williams have described her as a "gorgeous tomboy" who brought untold happiness into their lives.

A SCOUTMASTER who filmed naked boys pouring chocolate over each other, has been jailed for three years.

A MAN has admitted raping a student in Glasgow's west end.

A MUSLIM father has avoided jail despite pulling a knife on his teenage daughter for "shaming him" by letting a male friend stay overnight in her bed.

A BEAUTY lecturer told a triple murder trial one of the accused threatened to burn down a pub.

A man has been seriously injured in a city centre attack.

AN Olympic weightlifting hopeful has been convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl.

A POLICE constable who stole drugs and cash from a police station told detectives he "completely flipped", a court hear.

A FORMER publican told a court one of the men accused of murdering three members of the Sharkey family in a house fire had threatened to burn down her pub and her home with her and her child in it.