Wish up on a star

I trusted my grandad like all kids would – but he lured me into a false pretence to take my childhood away…

FROM YEARS OF HARD LABOUR AND TORTURE TO VERMIN-INFESTED CELLS AND OVERCROWDING, SOME OF HISTORY’S PRISONS HAVE GAINED A FEARSOME REPUTATION

Merrie couldn’t find her husband anywhere. The day before Christmas Eve was always busy and at 9.30am she’d expect to find him in the warehouse, checking on packing and loading and last-minute orders.

The September sun was still warm when I reached the familiar stretch of beach. I glanced up at a messy display of cotton-wool clouds in the sky. They were bobbing randomly overhead and I almost felt I

When her boyfriend left after an argument, Bobbie Cowan, 26, from Fife, never imagined it’d be the last time she saw him...

Someone wasn’t telling the truth, but who?