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SUNDAY 12 JULY

Picture of the incident on Dalry Road

A firefighter has died while tackling a blaze in an Edinburgh pub, after a floor collapsed in the Balmoral in Dalry Road in the early hours of Sunday.

Ewan Williamson

The firefighter killed while tackling a pub blaze in Edinburgh has been named as 35-year-old Ewan Williamson.

The fire at the Balmoral pub

BBC news website readers have sent in images of the pub fire in which a firefighter died. More than 20 people, including a baby, were rescued from flats above the pub.

SATURDAY 11 JULY

Flats in Brechin

A policeman is stabbed in the back and another officer is injured after responding to reports of a domestic incident in Angus.

Moto services entrance

A 17-year-old dies after he was struck by a lorry near a Moto services on the A977 close to the T in the Park festival

Revellers at the festival

Over 80,000 music fans flock to the second day of Scotland's biggest music festival, T in the Park, in Kinross-shire.

FRIDAY 10 JULY

Pamela Stephenson and Billy Connolly

Dr Pamela Stephenson-Connolly, the wife of Scottish comedian Billy, is to receive an honorary degree for human sexuality.

People at the festival

Thousands of fans soak up the music and the sun as Scotland's biggest music festival, T in the Park, kicks off at Balado in Kinross-shire.

RBS, Cardonald

A 78-year-old man is robbed of a bag containing £50,000 after being knocked over outside a branch of Royal Bank of Scotland in Glasgow.

THURSDAY 9 JULY

Passengers

Passengers on a cruise liner at the centre of a virus outbreak have said they will stay on the ship until they are promised their money back.

Marco Polo

A passenger has described confinement on a cruise liner hit by an outbreak of vomiting bug as like being on a "prison hospital ship".

Spinningdale

A salvage team have begun dismantling piece-by-piece a trawler called the Spinningdale that wrecked on St Kilda more than a year ago.

WEDNESDAY 8 JULY

Gaia website

Police in France have arrested a man who allegedly tried to abduct a 12-year-old Scottish girl he met through a social networking website.

Red panda cubs

Twin red pandas are part of a record number of baby animals born this year at a south of Scotland wildlife centre.

Marco Polo

Passengers on a cruise ship at the centre of a vomiting bug outbreak have raised a petition against plans to get them home by train.

TUESDAY 7 JULY

Plane

Holidaymakers avoided a long delay to their flight home when a passenger was able to fix a mechanical problem with their plane.

Cruise liner

A ship at the centre of a vomiting bug outbreak is to cut short its voyage in the Scottish port where it is berthed, as about 380 people are treated on board.

John McFadden

A former police officer who claimed he was a "black magic" high priest while sexually abusing three children has been jailed for seven years.

MONDAY 6 JULY

Plane

Holidaymakers avoided a long delay to their flight home when a passenger was able to fix a mechanical problem with their plane.

Cruise liner

A man has died and more than 150 people have taken ill on board a cruise liner which is berthed in Invergordon, Easter Ross.

Jason Middleton

A man has been jailed for four years for raping a schoolgirl who later gave birth to his child while he was supposed to be looking after her.



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