A Bloody New Year

DOCTORS were last night battling to save the life of a man who was badly injured in a crash that killed his girlfriend. Scott Ramsay, 24, was in a critical but stable condition at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.

He was walking home with his girlfriend Caroline Cumming, 23, when they were mown down by a Ford Mondeo in the city at around 7am on New Year's Day.

Caroline died at the scene after being thrown over a metal barrier and left crumpled against a wall.

Susan Heaney's Ford Transit spun out of control as it was leaving the M65 near Burnley on Saturday afternoon. The 45-year-old, from Leigh in Greater Manchester, was pronounced dead at the scene.

An 18-year-old man died after his car struck a tree and burst into flames in a street in Bedford.

A man and a woman have died in a crash involving a car and a lorry on the A361 in Devon.

A woman has died after a road crash involving a car and a bus in Blaenau Gwent.

A man and a woman in their 70s have been seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash in Argyllshire.

Colin Somerville, 24, from Stornoway, died when his Astra was in collision with an Audi on the A859 Stornoway to Tarbert road on Saturday morning.