Former Castle Douglas High School pupil's play being staged at the Fringe

Lauren Lyle is best known for her role as Marsali MacKimmie Fraser in hit time-travelling drama Outlander and, most recently, as the titular detective in Karen Pirie.

As summer comes to an end, one thing we have to look forward to is the absolutely gorgeous autumn scenery in Scotland.

There can be few better people to shed light on the magic of the Walker Cup than Gavin Dear.

Paolo Nutini left Edinburgh punters delighted after he jumped on stage for an impromptu performance at a popular club.

These two hamsters are living the high life with an owner who waits on them hand and foot - providing pamper sessions, tiny human-like meals, movie nights, and even treating them like babies! Mr Liquorice and Mr Teacake are two Syrian hamsters who have an incredible diet of tiny meals, and their owner says he absolutely loves cooking for them.

King Charles has an impressive portfolio of homes that stretch as far south as Tamarisk House on the Isles to Scilly to the Castle of Mey up in northern Scotland, with a few more fairly new additions to his collection.

Mirror.The cook also revealed that even for Christmas, the trio will eat with their nannies in the nursery until they become of age to be more presentable during public affairs of state.“The children always ate in the nursery until they were old enough to conduct themselves properly at the dining table,” McGrady explained.The food connoisseur worked for the late Queen Elizabeth for about 15 years and previously dished all about the meals that she used to eat on a daily basis.The royal, who died last year, once claimed on his YouTube channel that the monarch loved to munch on jam sandwiches during high teatime.“The queen was served jam pennies in the nursery as a little girl. She’s had them for afternoon tea ever since,” McGrady said.When the queen would spend time at her summer residence, Balmoral Castle in Scotland, fresh strawberries were picked from the garden and used for the jelly spread.Butter and jam make up the delicacy and are cut into small circles the size of an old British penny.

Stepping Stones Community Larder in Castle Douglas has been officially declared open – by one of the town’s oldest residents.

The UK spends a lower percentage of its GDP on financial support for disabled people and sick workers than any other country in north-west Europe, the SNP has claimed.

“It’s a mad way to make a film, and I’m not sure it’s not something I would rush into again,” director Hope Dickson Leach said of the process behind her latest feature, the Edinburgh competition title The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 

Laura Muir qualified for the women's 1500m final at the World Athletics Championships on Sunday, having finished in second place in her 1500m heat. The 30 year old middle and long distance runner clocked four minutes 03.50 seconds, with Sifan Hassan, representing the Netherlands, just seconds in front of her. Laura, who is the Great Britain captain, qualified for Sunday's final alongside Great Britain's Katie Snowden and Melissa Courtney-Bryant.

Catherine Bray Dondo’s dad is dead. That’s one of the first things we learn in writer-director Johnny Barrington’s spry, offbeat debut feature “Silent Roar” — this year’s Edinburgh fest opener.

The View frontman Kyle Falconer has spoken to NME about ‘Exorcism Of Youth’ – their first album in eight years – as well as coming back together after a lengthy hiatus and the on-stage bust-up that saw them cancel gigs earlier this year.Ahead of the band’s return on record, the Dundee band made their comeback with a series of Scottish gigs last December following a years-long hiatus.“It was a wee bit nerve-wracking, man, once we put the tickets on sale because we didn’t know what it was going to go like,” Falconer told NME. He continued to explain that the band’s management only wanted to put one night at Glasgow’s O2 Academy on sale, but they ended up selling out four nights at the venue. “That felt good because it was like, ‘Fuck you, you thought we were only going to do one’.

Aviation murals by a renowned Ayrshire artist are set to go on display as part of the upcoming air show.

Perth and Kinross Conservatives have claimed essential council services are under pressure due to Scottish Government funding cuts.

Fans of BBC One drama Shetland are used to seeing Douglas Henshall solve crimes in the cold. But the actor is swapping the Scottish isles for the Spanish heat in Netflix’s latest thriller Who Is Erin Carter?.The 57-year-old stars in the new seven-parter, which follows British substitute teacher Erin (played by Swedish actress Evin Ahmad) living in Barcelona with her devoted husband and a young daughter.

Naman Ramachandran Iconic British horror label Amicus Productions is resurrecting with anthology film “In the Grip of Terror.” Based at Shepperton Studios, Amicus was founded by American producers and screenwriters Milton Subotsky and Max Rosenberg and was active between 1962 and 1977. The outfit was mainly known for their portmanteau or anthology films featuring four or five horror shorts each, including “Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors” (1965), “Torture Garden” (1967), “The House That Dripped Blood” (1971), “Tales from the Crypt” (1972), “Asylum” (1972), “Vault of Horror” (1973) and “From Beyond the Grave” (1974).

Police investigating the deaths of two teenagers who both attended an event at a Glasgow nightclub have confirmed they are not connected but suspected to be drug related. Two 18-year-old males died after DJ Ben Hemsley headlined a rave at a SWG3, on Eastvale Place in the West End, on Saturday.

A fire has ripped through an abandoned hotel in Edinburgh this evening.

The Royal Family’s time at the Balmoral Estate will undoubtedly be filled with physical pursuits such as long country walks, deer stalking and horse riding, with quieter moments punctuated by picnics, barbeques and fly-fishing in the River Dee. Former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond spoke to OK! about how the royals typically spend their time together in the Highlands.