NORTH AYRSHIRE: Youth is to the fore

Nicola Sturgeon has claimed Scottish industry is footing the bill for the UK Government’s response to spiralling energy costs across the UK.

Firefighters are tackling a huge blaze on a Fife country road.

An investigation has been launched after four terrified cats were dumped at an Ayrshire layby.

The NHS in Scotland is in a state of "perpetual crisis" as many of those attending A&E wards are still left waiting hours to be seen, Labour has warned.

Naman Ramachandran U.K. broadcaster ITV has commissioned “Six Four,” a four-part crime thriller inspired by the bestselling novel by Hideo Yokoyama.

A drug dealer involved in importing cocaine from Colombia as part of an international crime network has been locked up. Ian Cary, 49, was part of a gang which sourced the class As from the south American country, which has a notorious reputation for drugs cartels.

Nicola Sturgeon is under pressure to fund universal free school meals for secondary school pupils to combat “horrifying” food price increases feared to be leaving children hungry.

A man has tragically died in a house fire in Aberdeenshire, police have confirmed.

Social workers have come under fire over the death of a 13-year-old girl whose mum left her to die on a couch while she went to the pub.

South Ayrshire's new council leader has pledged to demolish Ayr's Station Hotel — if he can't get the building's owner round the negotiating table.

The Scottish Airshow could be set for a return to the skies above Ayr as soon as next year, according to the council's new leader.

An historic town hall in South Ayrshire is set to benefit from a million pound facelift, helping to preserve it for future generations.

Labour have insisted that they did not abstain from voting in order to allow the Conservatives to take control of South Ayrshire Council.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorBeta Cinema has sold the English-language tragicomedy “My Neighbor Adolf” to several major territories. The film stars German actor Udo Kier and Scottish actor David Hayman, and is directed by Israel’s Leon Prudovsky.All rights for North America have gone to Cohen Media Group, Signature Entertainment has acquired the U.K./Ireland rights, I Wonder took Italy, Lumix Media has South Korea and Tohokushinsha Film took Japan.The film, set in 1960, centers on Polsky, a Holocaust survivor, who lives in the remote Colombian countryside.

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Illegal firearms and ammunition can be handed in to Livingston Police Station as part of a UK-wide firearms surrender campaign.

Joe Cullinane says Friday's North Ayrshire Council election result has left him "gutted".

A huge fire at a Fife pub is being treated as deliberate, police have confirmed.

Four people have been arrested following an alleged rammy in Glasgow city centre last night.

Two teenagers who attacked a boy and then dragged him onto a railway line have walked free after being admonished by a judge.