Alternativa Film Project Looks to Bolster Impactful Cinema in Central Asia and Beyond, Supporting ‘Fresh Voices’ From Underserved Regions

Storm Gerrit is expected to bring travel misery to Scots today as gale-force winds spark road closures and cancelled trains.

Scotland was undoubtedly roamed by woolly mammoths, it has been confirmed.

Now that it is finally here, people all over Scotland will be enjoying spending Christmas Day with their nearest and dearest. And while you are going through your usual festive rituals and traditions, take a moment to think what the end of the year would be like with no Christmas.

That time of year has finally come again - it's Christmas Eve, meaning there's just one more sleep until the big day.

Christmas Day is just days from now, so the main cook of your household will be deep in preparation for cooking the perfect festive feast.

The world's loneliest sheep is helping to encourage steps to prevent loneliness in the agricultural community after being rescued in the Highlands.

Support staff at Ayrshire College are set to go back on strike in the new year in a long running dispute over pay and job security.

A husband and wife found dead in a quiet village were shot, police have confirmed.

A volcanic eruption in Iceland on Monday evening turned the sky orange as lava shot into the air.

Queen Of Katwe review by Paul Heath, TIFF ’16.Disney rehashes the Cool Runnings formula with this family-friendly real-life tale of one young girl’s willingness to succeed in the world of competitive chess playing.This biographical tale from director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Vanity Fair), follows Ugandan slum-dweller Phiona Mutesi (Madina Nalwaga) who stumbles upon Robert Katende’s (David Oyelowo) chess school. Initially bullied for her personal hygiene, Phiina sticks it out and slowly learns the skill of the great game from Katende and his group of underprivileged children.

Police say a teenager who vanished near a hotel in the Scottish Borders may have travelled to Fife.

Two children and a woman have been taken to hospital after being hit by a car. Emergency services were called to the scene on Stanley Road, Kirkdale, after reports of a white Suzuki Vitara crashing into three pedestrians.

Police are hunting for two masked men following an assault and robbery that took place in Glasgow.

Christopher Vourlias While the war in Ukraine has upended global geopolitics and ratcheted up tensions between Russia and the West, the impact has been especially profound across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where many inhabitants have themselves been the victims of Moscow’s aggression in the past. In Kazakhstan, which shares the world’s longest land border with Putin’s rogue state and was the last of the former Soviet republics to achieve independence, the past two years have not only seen the disruption of traditional political and economic ties but accelerated a process of uncoupling from Russian language and culture.

Christopher Vourlias Three decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, an emerging generation of filmmakers born and raised in the independent countries of Central Asia is giving an exhilarating charge to the region’s cinema and helping to put their unheralded industries on the map. Leading Kazakh film critic Gulnara Abikeyeva says these “children of independence” are bringing a “new attitude” to the screen and giving a jolt of energy to emerging industries that for decades were under Moscow’s thumb.

People have been warned to look out for an early warning symptom of dementia which can appear when walking up or down a set of stairs.

The search for a missing man who vanished from a Scots nightclub one year ago continues.

A thug is behind bars for the "merciless" abuse of a woman and boy. Kenneth Quinn was convicted of the attacks spanning four decades.

A seven-year-old boy had been killed in a hit and run with police searching for a driver who left the scene before emergency services arrived.

Police probing the murder of a man in Lanark have been seen searching a house and scouring drains.