Outer Hebrides tourism boost as new film showcases 'beauty of the islands'

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to set out his vision for lower-paid workers to be able to use housing benefits to buy their homes - and an extension of the right to buy for housing association tenants - in a speech in Lancashire today. The Prime Minister is seeking to repair his fortunes after a bruising Tory revolt against his leadership.

Scots are set to be hit by further rail chaos later this month after it was confirmed the biggest strike in 30 years will go ahead.

With Father's Day officially inching closer, many of us might begin to think about what gifts can help us celebrate the special man in our life.

One of Scotland's biggest egg farms has ceased trading, it was announced this morning.

A man who died following an alleged incident in Johnstone has been named locally.

A cult band chose Scotland for it's first live show in over 10 years - saying Glasgow is home to the best venue in the world.

With more and more people taking up motorbiking, there are now 3.6 million licensed British motorcyclists across the UK.

Summer is officially almost here and we can practically smell the sun tan lotion in Majorca all the way from Scotland.

Halle Berry’s new film was shut down after crew found suspected live ammunition on set. Police raced to the set of ‘Our Man From Jersey’ in London when they were alerted by workers to the potentially deadly discovery. Scotland Yard confirmed in a statement: “Police were called to reports of an item, described as a bullet casing.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is reminding working parents in Scotland not to miss out on the chance to get up to £2,000 a year to pay for regulated childcare, including holiday clubs and other out-of-school activities, during the summer holidays.

Rail passengers the length and breadth of the UK face a summer of major disruption after workers voted for the biggest strike more than 25 years. As the Manchester Evening News reported last night, members of the RMT union backed industrial action over pay, conditions, 2,500 Network Rail maintenance job cuts and reforms that the union claims will lead to a wave of ticket office closures.

Abertay University’s hugely anticipated Digital Graduate Show kicks off this weekend after two years online.

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

With the weather beginning to get warmer as summer approaches, our thoughts naturally turn to getting away to properly enjoy it.

Naman Ramachandran New York-based Scottish filmmaker Charlotte Wells’ feature debut “Aftersun,” premiering at Cannes Critics’ Week, aims to achieve a balance of joy and melancholia in equal measure.Framed as a look back at a father-daughter holiday at a Turkish resort in the late 1990s, with occasional mini DV footage adding to the period texture, the film is an ode to nostalgia with hints of something far darker.Wells’ first short, “Tuesday” (2015), was about the loss of her father, which happened when she was a teenager. “I wanted to explore a different period in that relationship, like a young father and his daughter on holiday.

Sam Fender has discussed how getting the approval of Scottish comedian Limmy was “probably one of the best fucking moments of his life”, as well as discussing working with the likes of Sigrid and Sting, and sharing advice for young songwriters.The North Shields singer-songwriter was in London yesterday (Thursday May 19), where he was awarded at the Ivor Novellos for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for his acclaimed second album ‘Seventeen Going Under’.As well as being named as NME’s Best Album of 2021 and winning both Best Album By A UK Artist and Best Album In The World at the BandLab NME Awards 2022, Fender has also recently won BRIT Awards among other accolades.Speaking to NME in the winners’ room about where he was putting all of these awards, he replied: “They’re in the pub! I got them turned into beer pumps! I think this one might come home. I might give this to my dad; I think he’d be really chuffed.”And what has he done with his NME Award?“I might turn that into a beer pump, or leave it in the pub for loads of dafties to do drugs off it,” he said.During his acceptance speech at the Ivors yesterday, Fender used the opportunity to pay tribute to his former manager at said pub, North Shields’ Low Lights Tavern.“A very good friend of mine passed away last week,” Fender told the audience.

Manori Ravindran International EditorForest Whitaker has shed some new plot details about Francis Ford Coppola’s mystery project “Megalopolis,” which is set to start shooting in August.The actor-producer, who is in Cannes to receive the festival’s honorary Palme d’Or, suggested he had a substantial role in the new movie, and spoke favorably of Coppola’s script, which is a long-gestating passion project that’s been in the works for 20 years. Coppola invested more than $100 million of his own resources to make the film, which is his first film since 2011’s “Twixt.”“The cast is coming together,” said Whittaker, who praised Coppola as an “amazing filmmaker” that he was excited to work with.

A man has been charged after cops stopped a car on the M8 and discovered £102,000 worth of heroin.