Good evening and welcome to today's Daily Record headline briefing. The rundown keeps you up to date with the latest news from Scotland and beyond.
Today's top headlines include Scots airport halls crammed with luggage and Ian Huntley victim speaks out. Here is everything you need to know to keep up to date.
Rangers legend Andy Goram dead: Ex-footballer dies after short battle with cancer
Rangers legend Andy Goram has died, aged 58, after a short battle with oesophageal cancer.He passed away at St Andrew’s Hospice in Airdrie, Lanarkshire earlier today.The club confirmed the devastating news in a statement online.
It said: "Goram, 58, made 260 appearances for Gers between 1991 and 1998. In that time, he won five league titles, three Scottish Cups and two League Cups. His performances in the inaugural UEFA Champions League in 1992/93 were outstanding, as Gers defeated English champions Leeds United to qualify for the tournament, before coming within a whisker of reaching the final.
"Goram was also something of an Old Firm specialist, and as the decade progressed and clashes between the two became more and more important, he was often the difference between the two sides with some astonishing saves.
Scots taxi firm axes disabled services after new law bans them from charging extra
An award-winning taxi firm axed its service for disabled customers after new laws banned drivers from charging them more. Wellman Cars informed its passengers who suffer disabilities they would no longer be picked up.
But council bosses have read the riot act to firms and warned the move is illegal. It comes after a change in the law designed to help wheelchair users led to some cab companies threatening to take cars out of service altogether.
The legislation had made it clear that disabled people can’t be charged more for the same journeys as able-bodied customers. But Wellman Cars, based in Hamilton, told disabled customers they now wouldn’t be able to get a service due to the extra costs involved.
South Lanarkshire Council then emailed every cab company in the area to tell them they face prosecution if they follow suit. Wellman are Scotland’s Taxi Company of the Year, with director Clare Welsh picking up the award at a ceremony last year.
Staff corridors at Scotland's biggest airport crammed full of luggage
Staff corridors at Scotland’s biggest airport are being crammed full of luggage – with employees saying there’s nowhere else for it to go. Union bosses say the situation has created an “unsuitable and unsafe working environment” for staff.
This picture, taken at Edinburgh Airport yesterday morning, shows dozens of suitcases and bags lying abandoned in restricted areas. Staff say there is nowhere else they can store passengers’ belongings due to the huge amount of baggage passing through the airport.
There are so many suitcases and bags still to be reclaimed by passengers in the corridors that it is difficult for wheelchairs to pass. And the pile-ups, also said to be happening at Glasgow Airport, are being blamed on industry bosses and government officials.
The GMB union said their inaction has led to chaos following a boom in aviation after the slump brought on by the pandemic. Thousands more people are jetting off on holiday this summer compared with last year but the union says many firms have failed to take on more staff after paying people off during the pandemic.
Glasgow DJ, 13, sends crowds wild on epic boat party in Marmaris
A Scots schoolboy DJ has been taking the music scene by storm as videos show crowds of revellers dancing their hearts away to his catchy beats. Callum Spence might just be the youngest globetrotting DJ with TikTok videos showing the 13-year-old entertaining swathes of music lovers in the Turkish holiday resort of Marmaris.
The Govan schoolboy has been playing music since the age of eight - with his first gig at his dad's wedding in 2018. Since then he has played countless venues including The Garage in Glasgow, and is due to play in Ibiza later this year.
Callum told the Record he enjoyed his appearance at GBX's Marmaris weekend which was captured in the TikTok clips. He says the change in weather and getting to play a boat party for the first time were big factors.
Grooming victim of killer Ian Huntley speaks of guilt as 20th anniversary of Soham murders approaches
Emma Rawson has told of the moment she could have blown the whistle on evil Ian Huntley’s abuse, before he went on to kill Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. But Emma, 15 at the time, was so under the spell of her manipulative lover she lied to social workers who asked if she was having sex with him.
Now 42, Emma fears her silence back then may have left him free to go on and cruelly cut short the lives of the 10-year-old pals seven years later. She has lived with the guilt ever since. As the 20th anniversary of the Soham murders approaches, she has revealed the torment she suffered at the hands of her “first love” Huntley who was five years older.
Emma said she became pregnant by the monster but when she told him he gripped her by the throat and warned her: “I’ll kill you.” She also revealed police told her she was “lucky” she survived his abuse.
