Scotland - The Daily Record

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1. Scottish mum gave daughter beautiful Christmas name but in-laws thought it was joke

   Morgana McCabe Allan, 44, and her husband Duncan, from Fife, Scotland, welcomed their daughter on December 8, 2018, and knew they had to give her a Christmassy name - but not everyone was convinced at first

2. 'Friends call me selfish for asking them to pay for Christmas party but it's fair'

   A man has issued a very specific invitation to friends and family for his annual Christmas party - and most people have not taken to it at all with some branding him 'selfish' as a result

3. Secret horror lab facility where prisoners infected with deadly diseases and dissected while alive

   Unit 731 was a secretive Japanese human experimentation complex during the Second World War, where prisoners were deliberately infected with multiple diseases until they died

4. 'I caught black-eyed 'ghost child' haunting forest in chilling footage'

   A pale young girl with entirely black eyes has haunted Cannock Chase in Staffordshire since the 1980s, with paranormal investigator Lee Brickley documenting witness encounters including campers, dog walkers and drone footage

5. Only people with sharpest vision can spot gnomes in Christmas puzzle within 9 seconds

   With the countdown to Christmas Day officially on, why not test yourself before the big occasion with a tricky brainteaser? So can you spot all the gnomes in the scene?

6. I tried Aldi and Lidl's £1.99 pigs in blankets to see which one is best

   One of these would be worthy of a place at Christmas dinner

7. 'Our bath-shy Border Collie has gone from stinky to sweet after a brilliant discovery'

   Getting our dog into the bath is a nightmare as he jumps out as quickly as we get him in - but now we have found a solution

8. Cold feet could be a warning sign of 'silent killer' condition

   Feeling constantly chilly in your feet might not just be down to winter weather

9. Conman who posed as Lyons gangster to extort teen with sexual images found dead at train station

   Steven Adams, 37, who posed as Steven Lyons to swindle a teen out of money over sexualised pictures he sent, has died.

10. Youth suicide campaigners suffer devastating blow as parliament rejects petition to teach prevention in schools

    A key demand of the Record's Save Young Lives camapaign has been met with silence after the Scottish Parliament rejected a petition to make suicide awareness and prevention training mandatory, amid a worsening youth mental health crisis.