Clair Frost, 35, sounded a false alarm from a landline at Killin Nursery School, in Killin, Perthshire - sparking a full-scale search and rescue mission that included her own husband, a retained firefighter.

A sheriff told Clair Frost the length of prison term available made jail 'of limited effect.'

Police said they were "stumped" as to why Clair Frost sounded the false alarm, leading to multiple emergency services on the scene.

The teenager previously admitted the triple stabbing, but denies attempted murder.

Gregor Bauld, 22, has admitted manslaughter but denies murder

A massive crowd of friends, colleagues, family and well-wishers gathered on Thursday morning to pay their respects to the former Assistant Commissioner of An Garda Síochána John O'Driscoll, who tragically died suddenly last Friday

An Irishman who spent over six months in a notorious Iranian jail after being falsely accused of spying has revealed how he spent every day fearing death.

Geoffrey White, 66, made lewd comments to the probation worker at Crawley Magistrates' Court including showing her an internet meme of a naked woman in court and saying that 'looks a bit like you'.

John Savage said his grandparents were found hugging one another in the bed, adding that the family thinks it was God’s plan to take them together, rather than one suffer without the other.

Fawzia Amin Sido was just 11-years-old when she was forced to marry a Palestinian ISIS fighter and lured into Gaza, where she was reportedly tortured by her husband's family.

A round-up of court cases from Tayside and Fife.

Teachers Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin, and a student, were injured in the attack in April, at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman, also known as Amman Valley School, in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire.

Ali Jayden Doyle was killed by her mother's on-off boyfriend at a house in Dungannon.

The woman had been kidnapped from Iraq aged 11 by the Islamic State group and trafficked to Gaza.

Lorna Woodnutt's family had previously described the sledgehammer attack as a 'public execution, hosted on social media by her murderer'

Istasham Ali, 33, Shaheeb Aziz, 40 and Michael Rabb, 77, will be sentenced later this year

The victim returned home to find her house broken into and a note left saying "be happy, eat up".

Chennai Police arrest 13 in cyber fraud scheme, warn public against fake calls and fraudulent money transactions.

A shamed teacher who was found half-naked with her teenage pupil yesterday complained she has been left 'stigmatised' by her sex offence.

Randy Donovan Taylor, 35, of Columbus, South Carolina, was taken into custody on Tuesday after he and the 12-year-old were found naked inside his semi-truck at the 35/55 truck stop in Mississippi.

The boy's father Michael Belhu has been charged with two counts of murder after his former partner Katrina Zwolinski and her mother Laurie Crew were found dead in the house east of Toronto

Tommy Paul Quinn, from Bishopbriggs near Glasgow, felt unwell after returning from a family holiday in January. His mum Nicole quickly realised it was something more serious

In an exclusive interview with this paper, Rachel's devastated mother and brothers said they don't want O'Reilly to ever gain freedom, as they mark two decades since the murder which shocked the nation.

'They have been a major worry for years'

Jamie Lee Steel was locked up for a year after admitting assaulting her victim and stealing her mobile phone when the uplift of a dog went wrong.

The Celebrity Big Brother contestant's former agent Phil Green claims: 'The way she behaved after being released, it looked like she loved all the attention'

The kidnapping was said to have happened after she was lured to Milan for a fake photo shoot.

Mary Galvin was at her home in Ireland when she received a frantic call from her grandson Stephen Ball. Sadly, the next time she heard from him, the news was devastating.

Darryn John Armstrong, 35, was caring for Ali Jayden Doyle, two, and her one year-old brother when he threw the little girl, causing a head injury akin to a high speed accident