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Climate activists protested outside a prominent Edinburgh Government office today demanding plans a for a new North Sea gas field are rejected.

John McMillan, from Glenrothes, Fife, admitted to abusing three former partners over a 10-year period. The 38-year-old must now stay within his home address between 7pm and 7am for the next 11-months.

A domestic abuse survivor has told how her twisted ex would hide her left shoes in a bid to keep her stuck in the house.

domestic abuse survivor has told how her violent ex-partner 'hid all her left shoes' in a bizarre bid to keep her stuck in the house.Lauren MacDonald first met John McMillan on a dating app in February 2017 and was immediately won over by his charm which she has likened to serial killer ‘Ted Bundy’.The 36-year-old, from Glenrothes, Fife, was blissfully happy until the brute began verbally abusing her within weeks and telling her what she could wear.In a bizarre bid to stop her leaving the house, Lauren told how the 38-year-old took all her left shoes away in a black bin bag leaving her stranded inside for a week.After a family BBQ in June 2017, a drunken John launched his first physical attack which left Lauren with a black eye and severe

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: ITV has commissioned an extended second season of its odd-couple detective series McDonald & Dodds, starring Jason Watkins (The Crown) and Tala Gouveia (Cold Feet).Mammoth Screen, the producer behind the upcoming BBC/Netflix series The Serpent, will produce another three feature-length episodes of ITV’s crime-of-the-week murder mystery drama. The first season, watched by 6.4M people, was just two episodes long.It features BAFTA-winner Watkins as Detective Sergeant Dodds, a modest and unassuming figure, who is thrown together with Detective Chief Inspector Lauren McDonald, a feisty crime fighter from the London’s Metropolitan Police.