Anger as Scots council considers buying £24,000 painting as cuts to vital services loom

Cops are hunting a pair of drug couriers who dumped their £500,000 stash and managed to evade officers.

A senior Scots terrorism cop has been reported to prosecutors after being accused of ‘inappropriately touching’ a woman.

A Scots fraudster emptied his estranged husband’s bank account after claiming he’d “treated me so badly” during their marriage.

Tributes have been paid to a young man with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) who died suddenly at the age of 20.

A small number of 'possible' spiking incidents reported to have taken place in Dumfries over the past fortnight are being investigated by police.

Kevin Bridges has announced that he will be releasing a brand new book this summer.

P olice have launched an attempted murder probe after a man was rushed to hospital with 'serious injuries'.

Succession actor Brian Cox claims that Russian actors have been banned from speaking about Ukraine.

One with Russell Harty where he comments that her eating disorder must save on restaurant bills and another when Terry Wogan tells her to eat up so she can get back to “your chunky self”. The little girl with the big voice was 10 when she appeared on Opportunity Knocks – television’s predecessor to Britain’s Got Talent and Pop Idol – singing Ma! He’s Making Eyes at Me, 11 when it was a hit and 13 when she was diagnosed with anorexia, a barely known illness then called the “slimmer’s disease”. Before she died in 1999 the girl from Rothesay on the Scottish island of Bute had hosted her own TV shows, performed at the White House and shared a stage with Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball.

The heartbreaking reality facing the homeless in Scotland has been outlined by these harrowing pictures showing a man sleeping in a doorway during heavy snow.

NAACP Image Awards has officially been kicked off! As usual, this year's ceremony honoring people of color across television, music, literature and film is preceded by a week-long celebration, with five nights of virtual awards leading up to Saturday's live telecast.Hosted by returning emcee and seven-time NAACP Image Awards winner Anthony Anderson, the ceremony will include Issa Rae, Kerry Washington, LL Cool J, Morgan Freeman, Questlove, Tiffany Haddish, Zendaya and more presenting awards, while Samuel L. Jackson accepts the NAACP Chairman's Award and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project, receives the Social Justice Impact Award.The preceding non-televised nights will be hosted by actor and comedian Affion Crockett, with awards presented by Cory Hardrict, Demetrius Shipp Jr., Khleo Thomas, Lori Harvey, Wendy Raquel Robinson and more.

Greenock-born actor Martin Compston has been left 'beaming' after a Line of Duty event taking place near where he grew up sold out in less than one minute.

A Scots dad is desperate to get the help his baby girl have a good quality of life after being diagnosed with a 1 in 10,000 rare genetic disorder.

A grieving daughter has called for an urgent review of cancer care services in the region.

David Tennant and Michael Sheen took over a historic cinema in Bo'Ness for the latest filming of Amazon production Good Omens 2.

Thousands of children were made homeless during the pandemic, according to shock new figures branded a “national disgrace.”

Seven out of ten Scots are worried about affording their energy bills and many are already going cold in their own homes due to rocketing energy prices.