Strathclyde Police have been instructed to carry out a full criminal investigation into Craig Whyte’s takeover at Rangers and his financial management of the club as it plunged towards administration. The Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon attacked today’s launch as offering nothing new, pledging that the Yes camp will fight a positive campaign on what independence means for ordinary Scots. RBS boss Stephen Hester says the bank will consider compensation on a case by case basis after days of chaos caused by computer problems. The mother of a nine-year-old girl left seriously scarred after a man hit her with a bottle has appealed for anyone with information about her daughter’s attacker to come forward. A carer has pled guilty to raping an elderly dementia patient at a care home in South Lanarkshire. Stephen Murray from Hamilton also admitted at the High Court in Glasgow to sexually assaulting two other elderly women at Hilton Gardens Care Home in Ashgill where he worked. A teenager from Shetland has admitted hacking into the websites of the CIA and the Serious Organised Crime Agency. At Southwark Crown Court, 19-year-old Jake Davis, along with co-accused Ryan Cleary, pled guilty to launching the cyber attacks on major institutions in the United States and the UK. A flight is on standby to bring a cancer-stricken Scots child stranded in Mexico home to die. The Scottish Government is to shake up the way female offenders are dealt with by the criminal justice system …
