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1. Foreign oil giants to share in £22bn state handout for 'unproven' carbon capture

   Fuel poverty campaigners last night branded the plan a 'greenwashing con' that will add hundreds of pounds to people's energy bills.

2. Underwater search teams to launch new hunt for Kevin McGuire missing since 1994

   SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: The Scots joiner disappeared more than 30 years ago and his family have never given up hope.

3. Scottish Water bosses claiming boozy expenses in lavish taxpayer-funded policy

   SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Ordinary workers have been banned from claiming alcohol while it's a free for all for highly-paid senior managers.

4. Police dog handlers face breaking law in new cost-saving orders by bosses

   SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: The force’s dog squad have been told to use their own cars to get to and from crime scenes instead of dog vans.

5. Council chiefs making fire and rehire threats should be sacked, union suggests

   GMB Scotland secretary Louise Gilmour has spoken out after two local authorities allegedly made threat in pay negotiations.

6. Former Scots gangster peddling fake cancer cures on TikTok and stopping heart attacks with pepper

   SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Scott Davis claims cancer patients should fast and diabetics should only eat fruit.

7. Scottish Labour MP flew to Donald Trump inauguration and held secret talks with Texan investor

   SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Central Ayrshire MP Alan Gemmell claims he was invited out to the US capital by an mystery Texan company.

8. 'My son faces a lifetime of chemotherapy but now strangers are rallying round to help us'

   “Oliver was usually an outgoing lad... now he’s not allowed in any public places, he can’t mix with other people because he is immunocompromised.”

9. 'Human remains' found on motorway closing major roads as police launch probe

   Officers received reports a person's body had been found on one of the carriageways.

10. Donald Trump 'secretly recruited as KGB spy nearly 40 years ago on Moscow trip'

    Former Kazakh intelligence chief Alnur Mussayev made the claims.