Retailer McColl's reportedly on brink of collapse with administrators to be called in

Emergency services raced to a Kirkclady street this morning after a car flipped onto its roof following a crash.

review for TheWrap called it a “heart-achingly stirring and sensorially entrancing debut feature” from Wells, who also wrote the script. The film is produced by Adele Romanski, Barry Jenkins and Mark Ceryak for PASTEL and Amy Jackson for Unified Theory.

Manori Ravindran International EditorA24 has snapped up the Paul Mescal-led tearjerker “Aftersun” out of the Cannes Film Festival.The distributor has picked up North American rights for the movie, which premiered as part of the Cannes’ Critics’ Week section to rave reviews last week. The movie stars Mescal and newcomer Frankie Corio.“Aftersun” is produced by Adele Romanski, Barry Jenkins and Mark Ceryak for Pastel and Amy Jackson for Unified Theory.

A24 has won North American rights to Charlotte Wells’ Cannes buzz title Aftersun.

The UK is on the brink of a bottled beer shortage, a leading wholesaler has warned. Rising energy costs have seen glassware prices jump by 80 per cent in the last 12 months - and that's meant stocks of glassware have plummeted.

Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells lights up Cannes Critics’ Week with Aftersun, the absorbing story of an 11-year-old going on holiday with her father. Paul Mescal (Normal People, The Lost Daughter) stars alongside Francesca Corio in a terrific two-hander with engaging supporting performances. Shot on location in Turkey, the film is partly a comedy-drama about a package holiday, but also a meditation on memories of a father with mental health problems.

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McDonald's fans will be delighted to hear that the fast-food franchise is bringing back seven previous popular menu items in time for summer.

BBC correspondent David Cowan thanked doctors and nurses after being taken to hospital for a hand injury which began to turn septic

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Morrisons has announced it will buy McColl's in a move that will save as many as 16,000 jobs. McColl's confirmed last week that it has been forced to go into administration, which would see mass job losses and store closures.

Some 53 McColl's convenience stores in Greater Manchester are under threat of closure after the chain confirmed it could fall into administration. The company, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, employs about 16,000 people, or roughly 6,000 on a full-time equivalent basis and has more than 1,100 convenience shops across England, Scotland and Wales.

Armed police have been called to an ongoing incident in a Scots town amid reports of a man ‘armed with a machete’.

Martin Scorsese will pay a personal homage to influential British filmmaking duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in an upcoming feature doc. Altitude is attached to handle sales of the as-yet untitled doc and has secured a release in the UK and Ireland.

Police have launched an investigation after responding to reports of a sexual assault close to a Scots pool hall.

A man has been reported to the Procurator Fiscal after a lorry collided with a railway bridge in Dundee.

Livingston Designer Outlet is reporting encouraging sales and footfall increases over the Easter holiday period that indicate a return in consumer confidence post-pandemic.

Manori Ravindran International EditorThe Paul Mescal-led “Aftersun,” which will world premiere at Critics’ Week in Cannes next month, has been picked up for sales by Charades.Directed by Charlotte Wells, the drama is billed as an intimate story about a young father and his 11-year-old daughter, Sophie, who are on holiday at a resort in Turkey in the late 1990s. The film stars Mescal, the breakout star of “Normal People,” as the father and new talent Frankie Corio as Sophie.Here’s an official description of the film: Sophie (Corio) reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father (Mescal) 20 years earlier.