Your most-read Scottish stories of 2020
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1. Rail crash
Three people, including the driver and a conductor, died after a passenger train derailed near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire in August.
It was the first accident in the UK in which a passenger was killed on a train since 2007.
Driver Brett McCullough, 45, conductor Donald Dinnie, 58, and passenger Christopher Stuchbury, 62, died in the derailment, which happened as heavy rain and thunderstorms caused flooding across Scotland.
It took place when the 06:38 Aberdeen to Glasgow service struck a landslip 1.4 miles north east of Carmont.
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In June, a man was shot dead by police after a stabbing attack at a hotel in Glasgow city centre.