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1. Scots cops firing tasers up by 70% in last four years sparking fears over use

   New figures released by Police Scotland show that the use of Tasers by officers has risen by more than 100 percent since 2021 including a 70 percent rise in incidents were the devices were fired

2. Mum who glassed woman on hen do in cocaine-fuelled attack avoids jail time

   The bride and other members of the hen party were so afraid of Amanda Baillie that they fled the lodge they were staying in.

3. Assistant manager embezzled £23k from Scots store by making fake refunds to himself

   Disgraced Erol Doganoz, 29, was finally snared after a customer requested a refund and it was found one had already been made.

4. Lorraine Kelly to make Radio 2 debut as part of BBC's festive radio line-up

   Lorraine has more time now that her STV show has been cut back - and she has already found a way to fill it.

5. Mossmorran workers at risk of losing jobs should not be subject to petty political squabbles

   Record View says affected workers want unity of purpose but what they have is yet another petty squabble between ­politicians.

6. The SNP had the chance to change Scotland after the pandemic but blew it

   In his Daily Record column, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar says the First Minister is not the politician who will turn around Scotland.

7. The life of 'Hitler's pianist' after he fled Nazi Germany for quiet life in Aberdeenshire

   Walter Hambock had played piano for the Nazis before escaping a concentration camp and setting up life in rural Scotland.

8. Labour accused of treating oil and gas workers 'like the miners in the 1980s'

   EXCLUSIVE: Louise Gilmour of GMB Scotland claimed the abandonment of the energy workers is akin to forty years ago.

9. Martin Compston loves doing his own stunts so he can 'feel like James Bond'

   The 41-year-old 'lives for' tough action scenes in shows like the returning Line of Duty, The Rig, and Red Eye.

10. Scots scientists discover that space dust may be catalyst for building blocks of life

    Researchers from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh are working alongside teams from Germany and the USA in the first study of its kind.