Council chiefs agree fresh pay offer as hopes grow of end to strike action

Train drivers will resume their strikes next month as part of a long-running dispute over pay.

Fast food giant McDonald's has enraged shoppers with a message about the Queen's funeral which some have branded 'disrespecful' and 'disgusting'.

Oprah Winfrey is back on the red carpet at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival!

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Peacock has landed for development, The Show Must Go On, an hourlong murder mystery anthology, which would mark the first time Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera musical is used as part of a TV series. The high-profile project comes from the Zoey’s Extraordinary Playbook creator Austin Winsberg, former top TV executive and award-winning producer Robert Greenblatt, EGOT Lloyd Webber, as well as Zoey’s producer The Tannenbaum Company, pilot director Richard Shepard and studio Lionsgate Television.

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Astin (Stranger Things) and Craig Parker (Good Trouble) have signed on to star alongside Domenica Cameron-Scorsese in Jason Mac’s political thriller, A Social Contract — the filmmaker’s follow-up to his directorial debut A Father’s Legacy, which was released by Cinedigm last year. (Check out the first still from Mac’s new feature, currently in production in Illinois, below.)

The Prime Minister and politicians' have expressed their concern over news that the Queen is under medical supervision at Balmoral.

Unions have called off strikes which were set to leave schools closed and bins unemptied across Stirling this week.

More than a quarter of Scotland's prison population is made up of people who are on remand and have not yet been to trial. Over 2000 inmates are languishing behind bars - despite officially being innocent of the crimes they have been charged with.

Tributes have been paid from across the political spectrum to former Glasgow Labour leader and councillor Malcolm Cunning who has died, aged 65. News of his death was announced by Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar on Sunday.

It looks like Austin Swift might have a new girlfriend!

EXCLUSIVE: Anne Hathaway praised James Gray for not being a “kid-glove” director. The filmmaker directed the Oscar-winning star in his autobiographical film Armageddon Time, which is receiving its North American premiere Friday at the Telluride Film Festival.

EXCLUSIVE: Director James Gray has revealed to Deadline that Johnny, a pivotal character portrayed by Jaylin Webb (The Wonder Years) in Gray’s autobiographical film Armageddon Time, was killed during a drug deal in the mid-1980s, some six years after we last see him in the movie.

Pay rises for better-off council staff would be capped under plans discussed to end waves of strikes by local authority workers.

Despite those pesky rumours that they’re no longer an item, Love Island’s Paige Thorne and Adam Collard are very much still together and they’re going from strength to strength on the outside world now that they’re officially boyfriend and girlfriend.But, just weeks after they made it official, it seems Paige is keen for Adam to make another public declaration of love after their fellow Islanders Tasha Ghouri and Andrew Le Page unveiled their matching tattoos.It recently seemed as if Adam might follow in the footsteps of Tasha and Andrew when the heavily inked reality star was spotted going under the needle on Paige’s Instagram story, with the former paramedic captioning the post, “As if he’s getting my name x.”However, Adam later revealed that Paige was just joking and teased that she might have a touch of the green-eyed monster. He also admitted he’s reluctant to get another girl’s name tattooed after he was forced to cover up a ‘Z’ dedicated to ex-girlfriend Zara McDermott when they split.“[Paige] is really chuffed with how funny she thinks she is,” Adam told his followers.“As much as she begged me and begged me.

Dumfries and Galloway is set to be hit by bin collectors strikes after unions rejected a new pay offer.

A bogus tweet claiming East Ayrshire schools will be closed has been rubbished by the council.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will personally intervene today in a bid to stop waves of strike action among council workers.

Things got heated in the courtroom between Tyrese Gibson and a judge during the singer’s testimony on Tuesday evening.