Arcade Fire Glasgow gig to go ahead despite Win Butler sexual misconduct allegations

Glastonbury Festival‘s fire-breathing Arcadia spider for celebrations during the football tournament this autumn.Live music performances including DJ sets will run in situ with the spider, which has become a firm fixture for electronic music at Glastonbury over the last decade.According to the Daily Mail, organisers of this year’s World Cup in Qatar have rented the 50-tonne, fire-breathing metal structure that Glastonbury itself hires annually from the Bristol-based Arcadia company for the tournament. No further details, however, on when it will be in place nor who is playing live inside the spider have been shared.The publication has reported further that a “well-placed source” suggested that the Arcadia spider may be one of the few zones in which alcohol is permitted to be drunk including at the stadiums and in the ‘Fan Zone’.

Residents in a Scots apartment block say they are "living in fear" after multiple fires were started in their stairwell.

A man and a woman have been evacuated from their upstairs flat in a South Ayrshire town after a fire broke out in the early hours of Sunday morning.

A severely delayed new 999 IT system for Scotland’s fire service hasn’t been delivered four years into a 10 year contract. The £10million command and control software is being delivered by French firm Systel but is yet to go live, the Sunday Mail can reveal.

Two of the men who accused a former youth charity chief of sexual ­misconduct say they have been failed after a ­watchdog took no action. Officials from the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) looked at allegations about Jordan Linden, the former chairman of the Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP).

The Princess Royal is visiting Scotland today, accompanied by her husband Sir Tim Laurence. She is touring the Glasgow City Chambers, one of the city's most celebrated works of architecture, and meet with representatives of organisations of which the late Queen was a patron. Anne was accompanied by her husband Sir Tim Laurence, was pictured chatting to crowds outside before reading messages left on bouquets.  This comes after Anne, 72, has taken a front-and-centre position during the preparations for her mother's funeral, appearing alongside her brothers and nephews during the coffin's procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall yesterday.

Queen Elizabeth‘s four children – King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward – walk behind her coffin as the hearse arrives at St. Giles’ Cathedral after the procession from the Palace of Holyroodhouse on Monday (September 12) in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Queen Elizabeth II's daughter, Princess Anne, was seen curtsying as her mother's coffin passed her and entered the Palace of Holyroodhouse on Sunday. The touching sign of respect for the late monarch moved many following the death of the queen at age 96 last Thursday. Sunday's processional marked the start of the queen's body traveling throughout the United Kingdom ahead of being laid to rest on Sept.

Royal fans celebrated the reunion of the “Fab Four” over the weekend as Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, Prince William and Kate Middleton reunited in public for the first time since 2020. The new Prince and Princess of Wales, both aged 40, and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, 37 and 41, united for a surprise visit to see tributes left outside Windsor Castle for the Queen on Saturday 10 September.

Footage has emerged of a brutal fight outside a popular McDonald's in the city centre of Glasgow.

The managing director of under-fire train operator Avanti West Coast has stepped down from his role, it was confirmed tonight. Phil Whittingham will leave his position on September 15 to 'pursue other executive leadership opportunities'.

Darius Danesh has been laid to rest in Scotland following his untimely death at the age of 41.The star was found dead in his apartment in Rochester, Minnesota, on Tuesday 11 August. And on Thursday 25 August, a private service for family and friends was held at Bearsden Cross Parish Church in Darius' hometown of Glasgow. A lone piper played one of the singer's favourite songs, Caledonia, during the procession.

Four men have been arrested in Glasgow after a man was allegedly stabbed in an early morning attack.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has backed a new multi-million pound fund to help over 750 West Lothian families during the cost of living crisis - despite facing criticism for scrapping free school meals for all P6 and P7 pupils this summer.

Police have released CCTV images of a man they believe could be linked to an assault that happened in Glasgow earlier this year.

A pedestrian is fighting for his life after being hit by a bus in Glasgow city centre yesterday. The 40-year-old man was struck by the bus on Midland Street, at its junction with Jamaica Street, at around 1.45 pm on Saturday.

A man has been rushed to hospital after being hit by a bus in Glasgow this afternoon.

Police have released CCTV images of four men they are hunting in relation to an attack in Glasgow.