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1. Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I feel I am serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit’

   The former First Minister's estranged husband Peter Murrell pleaded guilty this week to embezzling from the SNP.

2. Blood test could detect Alzheimer's and Parkinson's 17 years early

   An experimental blood test may be able to detect Alzheimer's disease almost two decades before a typical diagnosis

3. OAP 'threatened with legal action over 38p energy bill' delighted as debts wiped

   Robert Walsh, who is battling bone cancer, said he had been aggressively pursued by the energy giant for more than a year, leaving him suicidal.

4. 'Young rapists like the teen who raped my daughter should face jail'

   A woman whose 17-year-old daughter was attacked by her teen boyfriend, has hit out as a judge decided to free three young rapists.

5. Peter Murrell bought 108 toilet rolls hours before Nicola Sturgeon's Covid panic buying warning

   Just 48 hours later, Sturgeon appeared at a press conference urging Scots not to panic buy and to “apply common sense” amid supermarket shortages as the pandemic loomed.

6. Dirty Business star raps 'secretive' Scottish Water over 'hundreds of illegal sewage spills'

   Retired Oxford academic and 'sewage sleuth' Peter Hammond, subject of hit Channel 4 drama, warned Scotland faces its own sewage scandal.

7. Mum 'left in crippling pain by mesh implant' slams decision to axe women’s health minister role

   Roseanna Clarkin is among a huge number of women in Scotland who blame mesh products for life-changing complications and are calling for an independent review.

8. Inspirational Scot hoping double lung transplant will give her 'second chance at life'

   Kim Lam, from Aberdeen, was young, fit and healthy and working in London in 2015 when her life was turned upside down by lung disease.

9. Ketamine crisis for young Scots as thousands admitted to A&E and hospital due to drug

   Illegal use of the drug has risen sharply in recent years, particularly among the young, but chronic use can destroy your bladder.

10. Scots cops should declare if they are Freemasons says veteran ex-Labour minister

    Former MP Chris Mullin campaigned in the 1990s for public servants to disclose if they are part of secret societies.