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1. Police squash online firearm speculation as they race to early morning disturbance in Scots street

   Police attended the scene of a reported disturbance in Denny on Tuesday morning and denied online speculation that a firearm was discharged.

2. Five weeks of repair works to begin on section of collapsed wall along A84

   BEAR Scotland has confirmed that the repair works to the retaining wall on the stretch north of Kilmahog will begin later this month and will take approximately five weeks to complete.

3. Detectives searching for missing Scots busker speak to 400 people in desperate hunt

   Lewis Cuthbert, 25, was last seen around 4pm on August, 4 in the Lesmahagow Road area of Strathaven, South Lanarkshire.

4. Thousands of Lanarkshire families benefit from child disability payment

   More than 13,000 families across North and South Lanarkshire receive the benefit, and all those who are eligible are encouraged to apply

5. Ross McGill's gangland enforcers take credit for brutal machete attack in Rutherglen flat

   A gang of masked assailants launched brutally attacked a 50-year-old man and a dog in a flat in South Lanarkshire.

6. Exact date 27C heat to return to Scotland in final summer blast after September's wet start

   September will get off to a windy and rainy start but there is the prospect of late summer heat

7. Children's hospital nurse caught in £200k cocaine and ecstasy raid

   Kiran Farooq, who worked at Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Children was caught by cops after they witnessed a suspected drugs deal.

8. Scot visits supermarket in Peru and finds something unexpected on shelves

   Scottish travel enthusiast Craig Ferguson went in search of a familiar soft drink as he explored the city of Arequipa in Peru and was astounded by what he found in the supermarket

9. New free rail travel boost for people with a concession card 

   A pilot scheme will run until the end of March for people in Scotland.

10. 'Screaming and barking' heard inside blood-soaked flat before 'machete attack'

    A masked gang armed with machetes burst into a flat in Rutherglen and launched a violent attack on a man and a dog.