Dog owners in the Swiss town of Chiasso will soon be required to clean up their pets' urine as well as their faeces under what is believed to be the country's first rule of its kind. From mid-August, owners must carry a bottle of water to dilute urine left in public places. First-time offenders will
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A construction company has been fined after a large number of bats were killed as a result of building work at a sheltered housing bungalow. The property’s tenant was admitted to hospital with bite wounds after more than 150 bats flew into his living quarters and bedroom from the house’s
A coalition of human rights and environmental organisations has accused oil giant Shell of failing to address decades of pollution in Nigeria’s Niger Delta after analysing internal company documents that it says reveal concerns over ageing infrastructure, weak oversight and the potential cost
The tenant of a hotel room in Crail has lost an appeal regarding a notice to quit served on him by the unconfirmed executor of the hotel owner’s estate, with the Sheriff Appeal Court reasoning that the notice was retrospectively validated by the executor’s subsequent confirmation. The ap
The inaugural Sir Alexander Stone Lecture lecture at the University of Glasgow will be delivered by Professor Irene-marie Esser on 8 October, with a response given by Lord Braid. Professor Esser was appointed to the Sir Alexander Stone chair in commercial law last year and will be hosting an annual
A domestic abuser who deliberately started a fire at his former partner's home leaving her and a five-year-old child trapped inside has been jailed for seven years. Craig Higgs set fire to a barbecue, a bag of coals and other items in the communal stairwell of a property in Musselburgh, East Lothian
In Mother Russia, victim compensates you. Russian lawmakers have said Moscow will seek compensation from European countries over damage caused by the war it started in Ukraine.
A former Reform UK council candidate is suing CMS for £400,000 after he was dismissed over a series of controversial social media posts, including one stating: "I hate Islam." Dan Cooper, formerly a senior HR business partner at the firm, was dismissed in March 2025 after CMS became aware of p
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has agreed to pay up to $5.5 billion to settle tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that its talc-based baby powder and other products caused ovarian cancer. The proposed settlement would resolve around 76,000 cases, covering most of the remaining talc-related claim
A man who abducted a teenage girl at knifepoint before raping her in a basement has been given an order for lifelong restriction with five years before parole. Aaron Strachan, now 21, approached the 15-year-old girl as she waited at a bus stop in Edinburgh city centre in the early hours of 25 May 20
With under two weeks remaining until the first Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax submission deadline, new research from Bank of Scotland suggests that two-thirds (65 per cent) of small businesses in Scotland still have work to do before they are ready to comply with the new rules, compared wi
The UK Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the Kingdom of Bahrain after a majority of the Court’s justices held that the Gulf state was not entitled to invoke state immunity against tort claims brought by UK-based activists whose computers had allegedly been infected with spyware by Bahrai
A millionaire tailor who once dressed opera star Luciano Pavarotti is suing a wine fridge supplier for more than £550,000, claiming faulty units ruined part of his prized wine collection.
A lord ordinary has refused an action to quash a decree of divorce granted after undefended proceedings in 2024, finding that the pursuer’s suggestions of inaccuracies in the factual basis of the decree did not provide sufficient grounds for reduction. The parties’ divorce was granted on
A carwash owner with links to serious organised crime who controlled a large-scale drug-trafficking operation has been jailed for three years. Evidence gathered by prosecutors showed how Klodian Ferizolli, 32, of Glasgow, supplied and sold cocaine and cannabis worth thousands of pounds.
