Irvine

The founders of a telecoms company received inside information from two NHS employees when bidding for lucrative deals.

The priest, who died in 2021, was said to have abused the man while he was a primary school pupil and a teenager.

Police were alerted to a man walking along the dual carriageway in Irvine, North Ayrshire.

The dog, described as a cream-coloured Staffordshire Bull Terrier, was without an owner, police said.

North Ayrshire Council told BBC Scotland News moving the whale would depend on the tide.

The UK government confirms the £20m support for seven Scottish sites will be able to proceed.

The drug's street value was estimated by police to be between £1.2m and £1.8m.

The 37-year-old man died at the scene of the collision, on the A78 near Irvine in North Ayrshire.