A pensioner has appeared in court accused of threatening to kill Prime Minister Theresa May and sparking a bomb scare in Harrods.

Isabella Jackson faces several charges over threats made by email, including claiming there were bombs planted at two US embassies.

The 72-year-old is accused of making death threats against Mrs May in November 2014, when the Conservative MP was serving as home secretary.

Jackson appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court on Tuesday accused of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner likely to cause fear or alarm at her home in Buckhaven, Fife, on November 24, 2014.

She is charged with threatening to kill Mrs May on that day, as well as sending emails to American embassies in London and Paris with the intent of inducing the false belief that bombs were present at the embassies between December 13, 2014, and January 7 last year.

The pensioner is also accused of trying to induce belief there was a bomb at the Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, London, through emails sent on September 14, 2015.

Defence solicitor Peter Mullen said his client pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Sheriff Jamie Gilchrist QC set a further pre-trial hearing for next week.