Enjoy a feast fit for the Bard on Burns Night

NHS Tayside bosses have unveiled a new weapon in their fight against cancer.

The mother of a baby who died at just a week old has begun a hunger strike in a bid to get his remains back.

Scotland's Bard is 263 years young today and Scots around the globe are celebrating the fact by tucking into some haggis, neeps and tatties with some whisky or Irn Bru.

Franz Ferdinand have shared a second brand new track, ‘Curious’, from their forthcoming greatest hits album, ‘Hits To The Head’.After teasing their return back in early November, the Scottish indie veterans released ‘Billy Goodbye’, their first new track in three years – a raucous glam stomper that the band worked on with Stuart Price (Dua Lipa, Madonna, Pet Shop Boys).The only other new track on ‘Hits To The Head’ is ‘Curious’, which frontman Alex Kapranos called “quite a different-sounding song” when speaking to NME in a recent interview.“Sonically, it’s more at the silky dance floor end of what the band is about,” he explained. “That one’s about imagining yourself in a situation at the beginning of a romantic relationship, being part of the magical moments and suddenly being overwhelmed by the sense of what’s to come and wondering how you will be when repetition, routine and the everyday is what your relationship becomes.“Are you still going to love me when the magic has faded?”The track comes alongside a video that sees the band put on their dancing shoes.

Guidance on working from home will be relaxed within days after Scotland continued to make progress in the battle against Omicron.

Hospitality venues across Stirling are enjoying the first few days after the loosening of Covid restrictions as local case rates continue to plummet.

The Kelpies will be lit up blue and white tonight to celebrate Burns Night.

Sam Heughan has toasted to Burns Night with a glass of his own whisky.

Good Morning Britain's Richard Arnold surprised viewers today as he donned a kilt and let out his Scottish accent in honour of Burns Night.

A musical story that has involved some of the most famous names in showbiz and focuses on one of Scotland's most iconic figures, is now set to come full circle, as one of Scotland's most talented stage writers brings it home this year.

A man had to be rushed to hospital on Friday after a Perth house became engulfed in an inferno which raged for nearly eight hours.

A police search has been launched for a young Hamilton teenager after she vanished overnight in Glasgow.

A Scots mum has shed an impressive seven stone after she was unable to fit into a rollercoaster ride on her holiday.

Burns Night officially arrives next Tuesday, which means supermarkets across the country are beginning to unveil their range of haggis-based delights.