Celtic-daft Scots dad scoops £1m lottery jackpot with his 8 lucky neighbours

A Scots woman hid her financial assets from the local authority and benefits agency in order to con taxpayers out of more than £30,000. Marie van den Berg, 57, secreted away an inheritance from the benefits agency and has now pled guilty to two substantial fraud charges at Perth Sheriff Court.

A Good Samaritan required a tetanus shot after having his ear badly bitten by a brawling thug who was fighting outside a popular nightclub.

EXCLUSIVE: Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki has achieved his best global box office in a decade with Cannes Jury Prize winner Fallen Leaves which has racked up a total gross of $12.4M, according to figures released by its producers.

A fire ripped through a charity shop in Edinburgh and destroyed the premises with neighbours forced to flee in the middle of the night.

Thania Garcia Kali Uchis has built her career on taking risks. With “Orquídeas,” her second Spanish-language album (and fourth overall), Uchis asks her collaborators — which range from global superstars Peso Pluma, Rauw Alejandro, El Alfa and Karol G to JT from the City Girls — to match her level of fearlessness, urging them to step outside of their comfort zone on a playground of pop, merengue, reggaeton, house music and more.

A Scots costume designer who followed his dream to Hollywood has scooped an Emmy.

This is going to be Dylan John Thomas’s year. In 2023, he sold out the Glasgow Barrowland – three times.

Cillian Murphy shared some special moments with his wife Yvonne McGuinness and youngest son Aran Murphy after his triumphant win at the Golden Globes last night, 7 January. The 47 year old Oppenheimer winner, who took home the award for Best Male Actor, was all smiles as he appeared in public with his beloved family, in rare snaps for the normally highly-private star.

The mum of an Edinburgh youngster with a rare cancer has launched a desperate appeal to fund specialist treatment in America after finding out her daughter's cancer had returned.

Frank Sidebottom’s talk show. Check out the footage below.Soul, best known for playing Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchinson on Starsky & Hutch in the 1970s, died on Thursday (January 4), following what his wife Helen Snell described as a “valiant battle for life in the loving company of family”.He went on to have his own music career, with the UK Number One singles ‘Don’t Give Up on Us’ and ‘Silver Lady’, but it is a very different musical performance that has been doing the rounds on social media this weekend.Soul once appeared on Frank Sidebottom’s Proper Telly Show, a short-lived anarchic chat show that was broadcast on Channel M in Greater Manchester in 2006 and 2007.The show, hosted by the absurdist comedian Chris Sievey’s persona Frank Sidebottom, welcomed Soul as a guest on the December 1, 2006 episode, with the two of them ending the show by playing a seemingly impromptu version of The Fall’s 1987 single ‘Hit the North’.“He’s playing it, can you believe it!” Sidebottom says as Soul takes to the keyboard to open the track.

Disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell claimed she “never introduced Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein” in an interview under oath, court documents have revealed.

along on a work-related trip to Cabo San Lucas, where he and his brothers performed a private New Year’s Eve concert at a hotel.Jonas and Bree had been seen at a private airport in Cabo on the day Jonas arrived, but it was initially unclear if they had traveled together. We do know, however, that they left Mexico together. On Wednesday, January 3, the model joined the pop star on a getaway to Aspen, Colorado, where they were spotted dining at Italian restaurant Casa Tua in a blurry photo shared the following day by .Bree and Lucky Blue Smith in 2017.Bree, whose real name is Stormi Henley, is a former Miss Tennessee Teen USA.

Simon, Lord Lovat got the axe.The Scottish Jacobite was the last person to be beheaded in England, in 1747 — and the Oscar winner, 59, is apparently his descendant.Crowe took to X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday to reveal that he’s related to the late, great chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat, who was executed for high treason in the 18th century. The “Beautiful Mind” star added that he had “been on the hunt to track down my Italian forebears” for a while now and has been researching his linage, which has led him down “a number of wrong tracks.”He explained that his great-great-great grandfather on his mother’s side was one Luigi Ghezzi.Ghezzi, who at one point worked in Argentina, later left on a ship bound to India.

A former Scots Tory MP has posted a photo of himself meeting with former US president Donald Trump at his Florida resort.

Pat McAfee Show on Tuesday (January 2), the New York Jets quarterback implied Kimmel would be named on the soon-to-be-published list of Epstein associates.The names of over 150 associates of the late sex offender are set to be made public after a federal judge authorised the unsealing of court documents in December last year. Those in the list were given 14 days to appeal the judge’s decision, with the deadline passing at midnight on Monday (January 1).The list of names were part of the 2015 defamation lawsuit brought by Virginia Giuffre, who accused Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of trafficking her as a minor.“There’s a lot of people, including Jimmy Kimmel, really hoping that doesn’t come out,” Rodgers said on the show regarding the Epstein list.He added: “I’ll tell you what, if that list comes out, I definitely will be popping some sort of bottle.”In response to his comments on X, Kimmel denied any connection to Epstein, writing: “Dear Aasshole: for the record, I’ve not met, flown with, visited, or had any contact whatsoever with Epstein, nor will you find my name on any ‘list’ other than the clearly-phony nonsense that soft-brained wackos like yourself can’t seem to distinguish from reality.Dear Aasshole: for the record, I’ve not met, flown with, visited, or had any contact whatsoever with Epstein, nor will you find my name on any “list” other than the clearly-phony nonsense that soft-brained wackos like yourself can’t seem to distinguish from reality.

Adam Thomas has left fans distracted - and gushing - over the same thing as he welcomed in the New Year with his wife and their children that left one of them issuing apology.

An 11-year-old boy with a rare blood disorder has met the stem cell donor who saved his life when he was six. Allan McPike, 41, from Glasgow, was persuaded to sign the Anthony Nolan stem cell register by his late cousin, but did not hear anything more for 10 years.

Instagram photos shared by one of his daughters, the Scottish actor, 52, spent the holiday with both his current wife, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, 39, and his ex-wife, Eve Mavrakis, 57, as one big happy family. This is especially noteworthy because McGregor and Winstead faced cheating allegations when they first got together.

A big-hearted Scot who was moved after hearing stories of those who were struggling has delivered over 100 Christmas dinners to those most in need.

Christmas is a joyful and exciting time when families get together to celebrate but for many - especially those who have lost someone special - it can be one of the toughest periods of the year.