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1. Scots cops swamped by up to 700 mental health related calls every day

   New figures from Police Scotland show that officers are being called to hundreds of mental health related incidents every day with only 15 percent of cases involving a crime having been committed.

2. Trans prisoners to be banned from female jails if Scottish Labour wins election

   EXCLUSIVE: The Scottish Labour leader said prisons must be 'single-sex spaces" in the wake of the Isla Bryson scandal.

3. Former addict sleeping rough for six months to raise £1m for new recovery facility

   Richie says he was a "complete mess" and "fantasised about dying" before he got clean and founded his own charity.

4. SNP vow of silence over botched opening of Queen Elizabeth University Hospital cannot hold

   In his regular column for the Record, the Scottish Labour leader said it was time for the SNP Government to come clean over what it knows about long-running issues at the Glasgow super hospital.

5. Dear Coleen: I had an affair but feel like such a loser after wife moved on

   "During our marriage I was selfish and, I suppose, immature as well."

6. Scot treks 110km across Sahara desert 2 years after receiving life-saving heart transplant

   Fraser Wilson, 48, from Glasgow has genetic cardiomyopathy which has claimed the lives of four of his relatives.

7. Ferguson Marine workers 'optimistic' SNP Government-owned shipyard can win new orders

   EXCLUSIVE: The Record spoke with workers at Ferguson Marine as uncertainty surrounds the Port Glasgow business with no new orders on its books.

8. There can be no more gaslighting of grieving families at scandal-hit Glasgow hospital

   Record View says it’s vitally important that senior figures from the SNP government and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde remember continual blanket denials, which appear to fly in the face of ­documentary evidence, will not cut it.

9. Kim Kardashian and Lewis Hamilton spark dating rumours with luxury Cotswolds getaway

   US reality star Kim Kardashian and Formula One icon Lewis Hamilton are said to be dating after they spent a romantic weekend at Estelle Manor in Oxfordshire

10. Peter Mandelson resigns Labour Party membership over 'embarrassing' links to Jeffrey Epstein

    The former Labour peer announced he would be stepping away from the party as does not wish to “cause further embarrassment”.