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Revealed: toll of Old Firm clashes on abuse at home

Bank holiday weekends, Hogmanay and Old Firm matches. To some they represent a reason to celebrate, for others they resonate with the horror of domestic abuse.

A graph from Strathclyde Police shows for the first time the scale and consistency of the spikes in domestic abuse around weekends when Celtic and Rangers play each other. It shows that domestic abuse has risen by 30% over the course of almost eight years.