Miriam O Callaghan ‘very proud’ as husband lands huge new TV job

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.A Scots mum was left with a bleed on the brain after she tumbled from her bicycle in a horror accident.Carrie Smith, from Fraserburgh, was thrown over the handlebars and knocked out while she was cycling on Mormond Hill in Aberdeenshire.Emergency services rushed to the area on Tuesday and she was raced by ambulance to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.Medics found she had suffered a bleed on the brain but no

local schools. Despite best intentions, a situation was created where an unacceptable number of our young people felt trapped and that education was not a route out of poverty.The Scottish Government listened to the exemplary campaigning of pupils, their parents and teachers, and are now putting it right.

coronavirus crisis who submitted creative CVs is now helping others with their applications.Laura Ripley told potential employers her skills included 'being murdered in a horror film' and 'crafting crazy fantasy costumes', in a bid to draw attention to herself.And believe it or not Laura has landed herself a new role- in model railways.The 31-year-old asked if the Hattons company would 'choo choo choose' her for the role, which marks a change in tracks from her previous work of 12 years in the

12 years of a life sentence.Jahche Broughton is making a bid for freedom after being locked up for battering Karen Aim to death with a baseball bat in January 2008 as she visited Taupo on a trip around New Zealand.After he was sentenced, Karen’s family vowed to fight to keep Broughton behind bars for his whole life.Two years ago, her dad Brian said he would campaign against any bid for freedom “for the safety of the public in New Zealand”.He added: “If he’s released, he’ll be 26 and that is just

Kirkcaldy after it was engulfed in flames. Emergency services were called to the scene at around 7.28pm on Saturday following reports that the Old Viewforth High School building was alight.

dogs during lockdown.The cost of popular breeds such as French bulldogs soared from £1600 to £2500.Now animal welfare workers are bracing themselves for a high number of unwanted pets as the nation’s workforce comes off furlough.Classified website Gumtree had listings for 79 puppies for sale across Scotland last week alone.Labradors, cocker spaniels and Jack Russells routinely sell for £2000 on the ad site.An undercover investigator with the Scottish SPCA Special Investigation Unit said: “In my

fire engines are on the scene battling the blaze which broke out on Loughborough Road in Kirkcaldy. The alarm was raised at around 7.28pm tonight, August 15, after a fire broke out inside the building.

John Swinney has held on to his job after surviving a no-confidence vote over the pupil grades scandal. He was kept in post after securing the support of the pro-independence Scottish Greens.

SNP is on course for a crushing victory at the next Holyrood election, according to a new poll.  The snapshot found the Nationalists on 57% in first-past-the-post constituencies, which would help the SNP secure a sizeable majority.  In another boost for Nicola Sturgeon, support for independence stands at 53%, which is in line with recent polls.

flagship Scottish resort. The firm owned by US President Donald Trump is slashing costs due to a sharp fall in international visitors to the five-star Turnberry Hotel in South Ayrshire.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticWhat surely would have made a good reality-TV series — three juvenile delinquents from the big city, plus an awkward kid with no friends, are dropped in the Scottish Highlands and left to find their way back to civilization — works even better as a dark comedy goof when a couple of lunatics start shooting at them from afar.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/no-plans-impose-lanarkshire-lockdown-22398658Aberdeen residents woke up this morning to being back in lockdown as the first local crackdown is implemented in Scotland.Bars, cafes and restaurants in the city have shut for at least seven days and more than 228,000 residents were told they can't enter each other's homes or travel further than five miles.Following the outbreak at the Sitel call centre last month, where staff members were advised to

Aberdeen have been ordered to close following a large spike in coronavirus cases.

union RMT who claim hotel chiefs are using the coronavirus pandemic as a ‘cover’ for brutal job cuts.RMT say they’re ‘stepping up the fight’ as up to 80 jobs are at risk at the US President’s Scottish flagship hotel and golf resort in Ayrshire.Measures also include cuts to sick pay, pay rises, scrapping free meals for staff, temporarily reducing part-time hours and putting full-time workers on a four-day week ‘until the business is operating at pre-Covid 19 levels’.With the consultation period

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.NHS Lanarkshire expects a number of changes in its winter flu programme due to the coronavirus pandemic.The health board has red flagged its vaccination programme as “very high risk”.The Scottish Government is finalising plans to make the flu jab available to more people this winter, potentially anyone over 50, in preparation for a possible second wave of Covid-19.In official documents, NHS Lanarkshire warns that

Scotland tonight in a spectacular sight for skygazers. August's ' sturgeon moon' will shine its brightest on Monday night when it reaches its peak - and it's not an event to be missed.