Good evening and welcome to Thursday’s news briefing.
The top stories on the Daily Record website include: Martin Compston and Ex-Celtic stars filmed with fans chanting ‘IRA’, Diabetic Scot abandoned at Alicante airport and a Scots teen who was made to ‘wash dead bodies’ took own life.
Here are the main headlines.
Martin Compston and ex-Celtic stars filmed whipping up crowd of fans singing IRA chants
Celebrity Celtic fans Martin Compston and Gianni Capaldi and ex-players Alan Thompson and Bobby Petta have been filmed whipping up a crowd of fans who are singing an IRA chant.
The footage, shot at the Celtic Convention currently taking place in Las Vegas, emerged online earlier today.
It showed a huge crowd singing “Irish Republic Army” and “IRA” to the tune of Daniel Boone’s 1972 hit Beautiful Sunday.
Diabetic Scot abandoned at Alicante airport after Ryanair claim hand luggage is ‘too big’
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A diabetic woman was left stranded in Alicante after Ryanair refused to let her board a flight home with her hand luggage because it was ‘too big’.
Teresa Bruce had travelled to Benidorm from Prestwick Airport with pals for a five-day trip and was queueing for her flight home when she was approached by a Ryanair staff member.
The 63-year-old, from Irvine, was told her hand luggage was too big to take on board and she would need to pay €69 to place the suitcase in the hold, despite travelling with the same case days earlier.
Scots teen made to ‘wash dead bodies’ in care home took own life
The parents of a young care home worker who took her own life say she was haunted from washing the corpses of dead residents.
Tragic Taylor Watterson worked in Fullarton Care Home, in Irvine, and Shalom Care Home, in Dreghorn.
Taylor, 22, was tasked with cleaning people she’d cared for in the Ayrshire homes once they had passed away.
Feral youths threaten to smash young girl’s skull with baseball bats at Scots beauty salon
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A gang of feral youths armed with metal baseball bats threatened to smash a young girl’s skull during a terrifying attack at a beauty salon.
Kasey Mullen, 18, was working late at Vi.Vacious hair and beauty bar in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on Monday when she spotted the four youngsters on the street outside.
The gang – believed to be aged between nine and 13 – battered the large windows of the business premises before issuing the chilling threat to nail artist Kasey as she tried to lock the door.
DWP dismisses call to introduce new £20 weekly uplift on all legacy benefits and Universal Credit
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has dismissed calls from Labour MP Steve McCabe to introduce a new £20 weekly uplift for all legacy benefit claimants and people on Universal Credit to help them through the cost of living crisis.
People on Universal Credit received a £20 weekly increase from the DWP from April 2020 to October 2021 to help them pay for additional costs incurred during the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns.
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