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A councillor has blasted the news sewage was dumped 436 times in Perth and Kinross waterways last year as "disgusting".

Sarah Ferguson has paid a heartfelt tribute to Queen Elizabeth II on what would have been her "97th birthday", despite a slight error in her calculations.

Netflix smash hit Baby Reindeer is the show being talked about by everyone at the moment and it was written and created by Scots comedian, writer and actor Richard Gaad.

Taylor Swift fans will be overjoyed to find out that there are still is a possibility that they can attend her long-awaited Eras Tour leg in the UK.

A year and a half after Queen Elizabeth II's passing at the age of 96, the Royal Family is gearing up for a solemn yet heartfelt commemoration of what would have been her 98th birthday. Now a former royal butler, Grant Harrold, has offered his insight into how he thinks the family plans to honour the beloved monarch away from the public eye on Sunday, 21 April. Speaking on behalf of Slingo, Grant reveals that while the Royal Family won't hold public celebrations, they will come together in private to quietly acknowledge the late Queen's birthday.

Crocked Abdallah Sima has spoken for the first time since limping off during Rangers win over Hearts in the Scottish Cup semi-final.

British holidaymakers are abandoning their winter trips to the Canary Islands due to European Union rules and rising flight costs.

A new restaurant is appealing to a family of eight to come forward after they left without paying for a £329 bill.

Scots DJ Calvin Harris has been spotted at the wedding of Scottish Radio 1 star Arielle Free as she tied the knot with her new husband, George Pritchard.

Greater Manchester will see a mixed weekend weather-wise - with sunshine and showers predicted. According to the Met Office, it will remain mostly dry today (Saturday) after a chilly start.

A killer who lured the father of her unborn child to his death casually continued making sandwiches at a cafe when questioned about the murder, a new TV documentary has revealed. Detectives who investigated Tasmin Glass have revealed they were stunned by her demeanour when she was approached about the death of her former boyfriend Steven Donaldson.

Ania Trzebiatowska has compiled an eclectic selection of fiction and non-fiction titles for the third annual Sands International Film Festival, which kicked off Friday evening in St Andrews, Scotland. 

Thousands of people turned out at a rally for Scottish independence, with many supporters saying they were not concerned by the prosecution of ex-SNP chief executive Peter Murrell.

The female star of Baby Reindeer says she felt a sense of responsibility for her co-star Richard Gadd, who wrote the Netflix drama about a stalker and her victim, based on his own real-life experience of being targeted.

In the late 1990s Joker writer-director Todd Phillips, then applying his trade as an underground documentary filmmaker shot a non-fiction project titled Frat House, which nabbed the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance before being promptly acquired by HBO Films. 

A mum has shared the horror moment she witnessed an aggressive dog biting her child at a playpark in Glasgow.

It's been decades since Alesha Dixon burst onto the UK music scene as MC in charge of Mis-Teeq. Since then, the entertainer has gone from strength to strength, becoming a household name thanks to programmes like Strictly Come Dancing and Britain's Got Talent, which returns this Saturday (April 20) on ITV and ITVX.

A motorcyclist is in hospital after a horror crash with a car on a street in Glasgow.

Kelle Roos felt like throwing his medal away on his last visit to Hampden.

Tom Holland and his brother Harry Holland were pictured arriving at the opening night of the Sands: International Film Festival of St Andrews. The Scottish film festival is set to take place over three days.

Tom Holland is keeping busy in St. Andrews, Scotland!

Taylor Swift has namechecked the cult Scottish indie band The Blue Nile on a track on her huge new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’.On the album’s ninth track ‘Guilty As Sin?’, Swift sings: “Drowning in The Blue Nile / He sent me Downtown Lights / I hadn’t heard it in a while / My boredom’s bone deep / This cage was once just fine / Am I allowed to cry?”‘The Downtown Lights’ was the band’s biggest song, reaching the Top Ten on the American Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1989, famously also the year that Swift was born.Listen to the two tracks in question below:Aside from having similar themes to Swift’s new album – navigating difficult relationships, the aftermath of heartbreak – the reference to the song also appears to be another nod to The 1975’s Matty Healy, with whom Taylor was romantically linked for a short period of time in 2023.Healy once told Vulture that The Blue Nile were his “favourite band of all time”, and he has named ‘Hats’, from which ‘The Downtown Lights’ is taken, as his favourite album of the ‘80s. He has also stated that his song ‘Love It If We Made It’ is like “The Blue Nile on steroids”.Led by singer Paul Buchanan, Glasgow’s The Blue Nile have a devoted underground following, and are praised for their elegant, melancholic melodies and restrained, patient synth and guitar arrangements.

A callous cop who stole from a tragic dad after being sent to investigate his death was spared jail today.

A man has been arrested after armed police locked down a busy street in Inverness.

Scotland’s First Minister has urged Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer to be “on the right side of history” in delivering compensation for women impacted by changes to the State Pension age. Humza Yousaf has written to who he said are the “current and future” incumbents of Downing Street after he met with Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaigners outside the Scottish Parliament on Thursday.

Nathan Patterson will find out this weekend if his Euro 2024 dream is over.

Steven Naismith reckons Rangers and Philippe Clement were lucky to dodge a couple of heavy blows earlier in the campaign.

Lorraine Kelly reacted to the news of Prince Harry listing his primary residence as the US on the latest episode of her ITV show.

Aramide Tinubu In his seven-part Netflix miniseries, “Baby Reindeer,” adapted from his one-man show, Scottish writer and comedian Richard Gadd recounts the true story of being harassed and stalked for years. Compelling and unsettling, Gadd, who portrays Donny Dunn, the fictionalized version of himself, transports the audience to one of the most painful periods of his life. The series untangles the nuances of his emotions, his stalker’s temperament and past incidents that fortified his frame of mind at the time.

A woman has appeared in court accused of murder following an incident at a home in Aberdeen which led to the death of a 'beloved' Scots mum.

A man is in hospital with serious injuries following a crash involving two vans near Ayr Hospital this morning.

Laura Anderson recently sparked concern among fans when she shared a snap of her baby daughter Bonnie in A&E.The mum-of-one, 34, shared the photo to her Instagram Story with the caption: "A&E with bubba." At the time she did not share the reason for this hospital dash, but now Laura, who recently started a new role at Scotland Capital Radio, has revealed that she had to rush Bonnie into A&E when she returned home to find the tot had developed a temperature.The former Love Island star says she knew "straight away" that something wasn't right with Bonnie, and that after calling 111 she took the infant to hospital. Speaking to MailOnline she said: "I got such a fright because I'd come straight from Capital and I was trialing a nanny so she didn't know her too well and I came in and just looked at her and I thought you're usually so smiley and happy but she didn't really seem herself.

Former Pop Idol winner, Michelle McManus impressed fans with her slim and striking transformation after deciding to quit alcohol completely.The singing sensation, who won the nation's hearts in the second series of the ITV singing show in 2002, has reinvented herself remarkably in recent years after confronting her struggles head on.The mum of two openly acknowledged her need to alter her relationship with alcohol - and the All This Time singer insists she feels happier and healthier for it. Finding her sobriety five years ago when she was pregnant with her first child, the Scottish siren confessed that her over-drinking was because of low self-esteem.

Miss Scarlet wasn’t left alone for long: Tom Durant Pritchard (This Is Going to Hurt, The Crown) has joined the cast of the Masterpiece drama that’s currently filming its fifth season in Belgrade, Serbia.

Scottish estate, Balmoral Castle. Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle may be invited by King Charles to spend some time with the Firm over the season this year.

Jack Cochrane, frontman of indie sensations The Snuts has revealed why the band has revealed why they’d never be able to collaborate on song writing with Lewis Capaldi, despite playing in the same West Lothian pubs before becoming famous.