Markets & Economy Archive

  • Man sentenced over McCanns claims
    Friday 22 February 2013

    A retired solicitor who published claims that Madeleine McCann's parents caused her death has received a suspended jail sentence.

  • Car park assaults on online sellers
    Thursday 21 February 2013

    Three people were assaulted and robbed in separate incidents after posting items for sale online and meeting the "buyer" in a car park.

  • Aristocrat had cannabis stash
    Thursday 21 February 2013

    AN aristocrat who served on several Scottish Government cross-party groups was caught with a stash of cannabis – after calling police to his home.

  • Mother on state benefits wins £250,000 palimony
    Thursday 21 February 2013

    A mother who received state benefits has been awarded a £250,000 palimony payout against her former partner after a court battle.

  • Police hit-and-run van driver appeal
    Thursday 21 February 2013

    Police are trying to trace a van driver after an apparent hit-and-run incident that left an 87-year-old man in hospital with serious injuries.

  • Jury discharged in Vicky Pryce trial
    Wednesday 20 February 2013

    The jury in the trial of disgraced MP Chris Huhne's ex-wife has been discharged after failing to reach a verdict in her trial for perverting the course of justice by taking his speeding points a decade ago.

  • Accused held Lynda at house, murder jury told
    Wednesday 20 February 2013

    ONE of the accused in the Lynda Spence murder trial told his former partner he had held her at a house, a court has heard.

  • Man jailed for gas blast death
    Wednesday 20 February 2013

    A man who blew up his house in a massive gas blast that killed a two-year-old boy living next door has been jailed for 10 years.

  • Scot, 20, gang-raped in Thailand
    Tuesday 19 February 2013

    A SCOTS student has been raped in Thailand.

  • Attacker's crime order
    Tuesday 19 February 2013

    An intruder jailed for 15 years after savagely attacking a grandmother was yesterday ordered to hand over £17,590 in crime profits.

  • Disability fight goes to Court of Appeal
    Tuesday 19 February 2013

    A Scots family turned away from an English holiday park picnic area are taking their case for damages to the Court of Appeal in London.

  • Company fined for killing protected mussels
    Tuesday 19 February 2013

    A firm behind a supposedly green energy scheme that caused hundreds of years worth of pollution and wiped out one of the world's most important populations of a highly endangered species has been fined.

  • Murder trial witness 'overheard talk of woman held in a house'
    Tuesday 19 February 2013

    A witness in the trial of four men accused of murdering a missing businesswoman told a court she ended up in a psychiatric unit after hearing snippets of a conversation about a woman being held at a house.

  • Pistorius weeps in court as he denies murdering girlfriend
    Friday 15 February 2013

    Blade runner Oscar Pistorius offered his "deepest sympathies" to the family of his dead girlfriend today as he denied her murder in the "strongest terms".

  • Corrie's Kevin Webster charged with 19 child sex offences
    Friday 15 February 2013

    Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell, who plays garage boss Kevin Webster in the TV soap, has been charged with child sex offences.

  • Not so friendly: 170 prison inmates barred from Facebook
    Friday 15 February 2013

    PRISON bosses have shut down more than 170 Facebook accounts being run by inmates on mobile phones smuggled into Scotland's jails.

  • Children's writer imported cannabis
    Friday 15 February 2013

    A Bafta award-winning children's writer is facing jail after admitting importing cannabis worth almost £9000.

  • Spence jury told of burning incident
    Friday 15 February 2013

    TWO men in a van matching one bought in the name of a murder suspect were seen dumping items and burning them following the disappearance of a businesswoman, a court heard.

  • Patient bid to smoke at hospital
    Friday 15 February 2013

    A patient at a high-security psychiatric hospital has gone to court to challenge a blanket ban on smoking imposed on the institution.

  • Man threatened his sick mother
    Thursday 14 February 2013

    A MAN who told his terminally ill mother to "hurry up and die" before waving two knives at her and his grandmother has been jailed for two and a half years.

  • 'Facebook abuse' charge
    Thursday 14 February 2013

    A SECOND schoolboy has been charged by police after teachers were abused on Facebook.

  • Ex-Rangers striker David Healy on assault charge
    Wednesday 13 February 2013

    Former Rangers player David Healy has been accused of assault, it was revealed in court today.

  • Speeding drivers targeted by police
    Wednesday 13 February 2013

    Speeding drivers are being targeted in a nationwide crackdown by police.

  • One-eyed killer admits murder of two unarmed WPCs
    Tuesday 12 February 2013

    One-eyed Dale Cregan has dramatically changed his plea and admitted murdering two unarmed police officers in a gun and grenade attack.

  • Brady's advocate will not be charged
    Tuesday 12 February 2013

    Moors murderer Ian Brady's mental health advocate will not be charged over claims she failed to tell the police about a letter which may have revealed where one of his victims was buried, the Crown Prosecution Service said.

  • 11 years for cocaine couriers
    Tuesday 12 February 2013

    TWO drugs couriers who were arrested after a huge seizure of crack cocaine have been jailed for a total of 11 years.

  • Life term for sex offender
    Saturday 9 February 2013

    A SEX offender who raped two young sisters and sexually abused a disabled boy has been given a life sentence.

  • House fire killer given life term for murder
    Saturday 9 February 2013

    THE son of a former policeman was jailed for life after murdering a pensioner whose home he set on fire.

  • Lawyer takes on duke in £4m da Vinci legal battle
    Saturday 9 February 2013

    A struck-off lawyer is suing a Scottish aristocrat for £4.25 million following the theft and recovery of a Leonardo da Vinci painting stolen from a castle.

  • Murder trial accused had 'threatened to torch pub'
    Saturday 9 February 2013

    A man accused of murdering businesswoman Lynda Spence told a barman the pub where he worked would "go up in flames" amid a dispute with the owner, a court has heard.