ONE YEAR OF CHAOS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
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executed more firings than the Apprentice. And he’s still here.
January was also a month of great heroism in Scotland.
A neighbour ran into a burning house and saved Rebecca Williams from a blaze that killed her partner Cameron Logan, 23, in his family home in Milngavie, near Glasgow.
In August, Cameron’s brother Blair was sentenced to 20 years in jail after he admitting starting the fire.
Later in January, we told how former footballer Chic Charnley saved suicidal mum Joanna Renfrew.
Joanna had taken a taxi driven by Chic, a former Partick Thistle star, and she told the Record he had convinced her life was worth living.
In February, we exposed Scotland’s most racist snob, former public schoolboy and company director, Alexander MacKinnon, 47, who abused a mother and son on a train.
He berated Sanaa Shahid and son Zayn, four, for being in a first-class carriage from London to Glasgow.
He told Glasgow-born Sanaa: “You should be in common class. You shouldn’t be in this country at all.”
Mackinnon admitted a racially aggravated public order offence and was fined.
On Valentine’s Day, there was a joyful announcement with the pregnancy of Tressa Middleton, 23, who had became Britain’s youngest mum at 12.
Tressa had been raped by her older brother and was forced to give her baby away. But in October, she gave birth to a beautiful little girl.
In March, the world of football mourned the death of Tommy Gemmell. The ex-Celtic ace, whose goal helped them win the European Cup in Lisbon in 1967, died, aged 73.
Later that month, British terrorist Khalid Masood, 52, drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and Bridge Street in London, killing four people and injuring about 50. In April, Prime Minister Theresa May went back on a promise and announced a snap election.
She said the election called for June 8 was necessary because opposition parties were jeopardising her Brexit preparations.
May’s gamble failed and she lost her majority, the electorate returned a hung parliament and the Tories made a devil pact with the DUP.
Later that month, robbers were jailed for almost 100 years after racing across Scotland and England and blowing up cash machines.
The hole-in-the-wall gang from Merseyside raided four ATMs in Scotland and nine down south.
In May, suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a homemade bomb as people were leaving Manchester Arena following a concert by the American singer Ariana Grande.
Twenty-three people were killed, most of them youngsters, and over 500 were injured. Isle of Barra’s Laura MacIntyre, 15, was injured and her friend Eilidh MacLeod, 15, was killed.
Later in May, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon praised the Record after our campaign to stamp out killer “street Valium” forced a UK crackdown.
Deadly etizolam and 15 other “designer benzodiazepines” were brought into the scope of the Misuse of Drugs Act – meaning 14 years maximum sentences for dealers.
If Brexit hadn’t been enough of a shock, in May, 25 years after Tories decimated Scotland’s industrial heartland with the closure of Ravenscraig, the party had a revival in Scotland’s council elections.
Ruth Davidson’s Tories saw an unwelcome surge, securing victories in some of the most deprived areas, worst hit by Conservative austerity measures.
Later that month Scots child killer and Moors murderer Ian Brady died.
In June, the Grenfell Tower fire killed 71 people, shocking Britain.