David Hamilton: Last News

1978: The Winter of Discontent. It was one of those social history programmes thrown together by Channel 5. You know the type: archive footage, celebrity talking heads, and a desire to pad out the serious stuff – strikes, inflation – with nostalgia.

A couple have been reunited with their missing dog after it spent four days on the run – thanks to pet detectives using a hi-tech drone. June and David Hamilton had picked up the 18-month-old Spanish rescue Jack Russell terrier less than two hours before it escaped from the garden of their home in Bothwell, Lanarkshire.

Cops are at risk of burnout as they struggle to cope with the soaring demand of mental health callouts, MSPs have been warned.

Surprise! Meredith Grey certainly came face to face with someone from her past in the “Grey’s Anatomy” premiere, but it wasn’t who you might have thought it would be.

Rangers FC as “disgraceful” after fans triggered outrage by celebrating the team’s first top-flight title in ten years.Supporters breached coronavirus regulations as they gathered outside Ibrox Stadium to sing and set off red, white and blue smoke bombs while fans also congregated in Glasgow’s George Square – leaving memorial benches destroyed and litter strewn across the area.Scottish Police Federation chairman David Hamilton hit out during a radio interview with BBC Sportsound on Monday.Deputy chief constable Malcolm Graham had already branded the scenes as “disgraceful”.Mr Hamilton, chair of the union body which represents rank and file officers, said: “Rangers was pretty disgraceful at the weekend when we had the celebrations in George

police assaults after a big rise in attacks – but a drop in those being prosecuted.The Scottish Police Federation said recorded assaults on officers rose by almost 88 per cent, from 898 to 1685, in the last three years.But at the same time, the Crown Office proceeded with 31 per cent fewer police assault cases.Following an increase in the number of assaults on police officers since lockdown restrictions were eased, and especially since pubs reopened, the federation is demanding that police assault charges should never be dropped.SPF chairman David Hamilton said: “It has been a long-running concern to the federation that it has seemed to our members that the Crown will often agree to drop charges of resisting arrest and assaulting police

The Scottish Police Federation (SPF) have claimed masks given to officers give 'no meaningful protection' against coronavirus.