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Helicopter footage from Police Scotland shows youths throwing fireworks and other projectiles during public disorder in Edinburgh last year

How 1980s-style football violence has returned to Scotland Tom Wood

The bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 killed all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie (Picture: Georges De Keerle)

Second Lockerbie trial may dismiss the dafter conspiracy theories Tom Wood

Cybercrime is a growing focus for Police Scotland, adding to more traditional duties like ensuring public order is maintained (Picture: Jane Barlow/pool)

Why police must embrace new tech like AI, facial recognition and more Tom Wood

Police hold back a crowd outside Strangeways gaol in Manchester before the execution of Dr Buck Ruxton for the murder of his wife Isabella Ruxton and her maid Mary Rogerson (Picture: Fox Photos)

How gruesome murder created a forensic science revolution Tom Wood

Such was the outrage of serving police firearms officers that a guilty verdict in the Chris Kaba case would certainly have prompted a mass resignation of their voluntary firearms duties (Picture: Jack Taylor)

Officer in Kaba shooting should never have been charged with murder Tom Wood

Alcohol could be bought, legally, in England and then sold on the grey market in Scotland for a higher price (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Scotland and England's alcohol price gap is gift to organised crime Tom Wood

Mohamed al-Fayed, former owner of department store Harrods, has been accused by dozens of women of rape and sexual assault (Picture: Peter Macdiarmid)

Why Mohamed al-Fayed's victims' legal pursuit of Harrods is unjust Tom Wood

Scotland is sending too many people to prison because politicians lack the courage to back alternative sentences (Picture: Paul Faith)

Scotland must stop sending more people to prison than most of W Europe Tom Wood

Safe consumption rooms will have a marginal effect at best on Scotland's rate of drug deaths (Picture: John Devlin)

Why Scotland’s drug deaths crisis will only get worse without reform Tom Wood

We are not equipped to deal with riots in this country, and that’s good news Tom Wood

Anti-migration rioters set fire to the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, South Yorkshire, which is being used as an asylum hotel, on Sunday (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

How 1981 Toxteth riots show root cause of disorder is deprivation Tom Wood

Francine Wheeler displays a photograph of her son, Sandy Hook Elementary shooting victim Ben Wheeler, at a rally in Newtown, Connecticut (Picture: Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump shooting happened because US missed its 'Dunblane moment' Tom Wood

Revealed: How Scotland’s sex traffickers prey on illegal immigrants Tom Wood

Police's £13m step into 21stC will put truth of many incidents beyond doubt Tom Wood

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Row over Chief Constable's long ride home in police car missed the real scandal Tom Wood

Homicides in Scotland have fallen dramatically and Police Scotland almost always catch the people responsible (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Police Scotland has solved every single homicide case in ten years, except one

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