River City actor David Paisley opens up on vile anti-LGBT abuse that forced him to flee Scotland

Get the latest Renfrewshire stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletterChoristers are urgently needed at Paisley’s oldest church.The Paisley Abbey choir is one of the most renowned of its type in Scotland and sings throughout the year at Sunday services and other events.And its younger members – choristers – are dwindling in number.Professor George McPhee has been music director and choir master at the 12th-century church for 58 years.He said the covid pandemic has had a

Billy Gilmour set social media ablaze with his performance. The midfielder is on loan from Chelsea, and started in Tuesday evening's tie with Liverpool.

After being nominated four times since 1997, Ewan McGregor is now an Emmy Award winner, converting his latest mention into a gold statue for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie in Halston. The Netflix limited series about the famed American fashion designer has given the Scottish actor some of the best notices of his career.

BBC drama the Bodyguard is reported to be returning for a highly-anticipated second season with Richard Madden back in the lead role. Bodyguard became the most watched programme of 2018, with 11 million people tuned in to see the final episode as another 6 million caught up on iPlayer.

David Moyes wishes he had the same faith shown in him at Manchester United as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has enjoyed.

universities have been ranked from best to worst in a new league table for 2021.The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022 has released the new table for each institution as thousands of students head back to lectures.St Andrews came first in the UK, beating Oxford and Cambridge - something which no other university has ever achieved.The Fife uni came top out of 135 institutions, scoring the best marks on student satisfaction despite moving to online teaching during the

Scottish cities are set to benefit from a trans-European sleeper rail network which means people could travel by train to places as far away as Istanbul and St Petersburg. The scheme is being launched to curb the number of flights across Europe in a bid to drastically reduce carbon emissions.

pandemic, not feeling valued financially or professionally have left doctors "feeling worn out", said the BMA Scotland chairman, Lewis Morrison. Many doctors are considering moving elsewhere in the UK or abroad, taking early retirement, or reducing their hours as a "cocktail of problems" threatens the stability of healthcare in Scotland, he said.

World Cup qualifying group after beating Austria 1-0. Scotland's success was down to Lyndon Dykes netting the winner on both occasions, against Moldova at Hampden and Austria in Vienna.

Steve Clarke has had a number of injury and covid issues giving him a selection nightmare throughout the current international break. Stephen O'Donnell and Nathan Patterson were called into the initial squad, with the latter starting the match against Moldova.

DAVID McCARTHY: Let’s be bold here and go with Dykes and Adams playing off him. Dykes has to play anyway as he’s the best at holding it up and bringing others into play.

abuser subjected his partner to a two-year terror campaign which saw him order her to eat a mouse nest. David Macdonald repeatedly attacked his lover, once running on to her foot in his car and ignoring her desperate pleas to drive it off.

missing Scots pensioner with Alzheimers. Walter Anderson, 84, was reported missing from his home yesterday.

priest who says he was abused by shamed Cardinal O’Brien has called for a secret Vatican report into the allegations to be released. Brian Devlin, 61, was one of four priests who accused the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh of sexual misconduct in 2013.

to Twitter in the early hours of Friday morning, the Scots actor said the collie pup hadn't been seen for hours. The collie, which is only four months old, is said to look like an arctic fox.

Billy Gilmour to get their World Cup campaign back on track. The teenager was the stand out contributor on an otherwise chaotic night in Copenhagen on Wednesday as a 2-0 defeat against the Danes left Scotland with almost no room for error in Group F.

ordered to pay £290,000 in damages to the family of a dad who died during an expedition at Scapa Flow. Lex Warner suffered internal injuries after falling on the deck of the MV Jean Elaine in August 2012 after he tripped over his flipper.

Edinburgh.Emergency services were called to the area in Holyrood Park at around 9pm on Thursday, September 2. The 31-year-old woman was tragically pronounced dead at the scene with officers treating her death as ‘suspicious’.Police Scotland have confirmed that a 27-year-old has been arrested in connection with the incident.

to Twitter in the early hours of Friday morning, the Scots actor said the pup hasn't been seen for hours. The collie, which is only four months old, is said to look like an arctic fox.

jailed today. David Allan, 31, phoned a council contact centre to complain about the "service" he thought he should have been getting from the West Lothian-based worker.He said he would be "getting a one-way ticket to the jail, and there will be no more" [of her].