Firefighters raced to blaze ripping through Scots industrial plant as smoke billows into air

West Dunbartonshire Council’s leader has accused the Scottish Government of cuts to local authority budgets “that would make Margaret Thatcher blush.”

David Benedict Jessica Lange was once asked if there couldn’t have been someone on the set of the painfully overwrought Southern gothic movie, Beth Henley’s “Crimes of the Heart,” who could have got everyone to tone things down, to which she giggled, “You mean, like the Taste Patrol?” Large stretches of Theresa Rebeck’s new, wildly dysfunctional family drama “Mad House,” now running on the West End, suggest that the Patrol has been similarly missing in action.You can see why actors of the caliber of David Harbour and Bill Pullman — plus equally gifted British talents Akiya Henry and Sinéad Matthews — wanted to appear in this world premiere. Rebeck has barely been produced in the U.K., but it’s immediately clear she knows how to whip up bitterly comic set-pieces for actors to sink their teeth into.

An urgent search has been launched to trace a Scots schoolboy reported missing overnight.

A large fire has broken out at a Scots industrial estate, with fire crews battling the blaze.

Jane Park reckons she is proud of the cosmetic surgery she's had on her backside because "guys love it". The Scots EuroMillions winner had the ultimate clapback for an online troll who had a go at her appearance this week.

A Scots woman was left stranded in Turkey after EasyJet cancelled her flight home hours before boarding.

A female pedestrian has been rushed to hospital after being knocked down during a multi-vehicle crash in Edinburgh.

A Scots holidaymaker has warned people of a trick to save money while withdrawing cash from international ATMs on holiday.

This is the heartwarming moment a kind-hearted bus driver guided a group of duckings and their mother down to a nearby river.

A Scots woman had eight of her fingers amputated after a mystery illness caused them to turn black and her organs to start shutting down.

A Scots woman has been left traumatised after an out-of-control Akita threw her dog around like a rag doll, ripping his neck open in a violent attack.

A Scots lorry driver who killed a mother-of-four in a horror crash has failed in a bid to overturn his prison sentence.

The Royals have long had close links to Scotland, with the Queen regularly inviting her extended family to spend summers with her there.

A motorcyclist has died in hospital four days after a horror crash in a Scots industrial estate.

Police helicopters and road cops combined to chase an alleged car thief through a Scots town this afternoon.

Two Scottish teenagers have been missing overnight as police launch a probe to trace them.

Scots Euromillions winner Jane Park showed off her new 'surgery body' in post to Instagram this weekend.

Parent anger has forced a council to back down over a decision to cut a summer school for kids with complex needs.

Guy Lodge Film CriticWhile the police force faces a massive task of image rehabilitation on screen, these are unexpectedly rich times at the movies for anyone with a firefighter fetish. After an unsurprisingly long wait for one film featuring a team of strapping laddermen in sensual dance formations, two have come along at once.

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