Scotland's health boards spent £31million on agency junior doctors in four years

After nearly four years in exile, thousands of Bury FC fans are preparing for a day many feared would never arrive.

A teenage girl who had been missing for almost four years has been returned safe to her family after walking into a police station. Alicia Navarro, now 18, vanished from her home in a small town in Arizona - before reappearing hundreds of miles away in Montana, near the Canadian border.

A businessman recruited to represent Scotland overseas is a Twitter troll who posts hateful abuse about politicians.

As the trend of ordering a takeaway increases across the UK, obesity rates are also on a sharp spike upwards.

Businesses and organisations across Dumfries and Galloway have been nominated for the south of Scotland’s first ever Thistle Awards.

Those mischievous prankmasters Dennis, Minnie and Gnasher have gone on an adventure, taking a Scotrail train to one of Scotland’s top summer destinations.

A health board has sent hundreds of cancer patients to other parts of Scotland for treatment as it tries to attract new consultants to treat those with the disease, it has emerged. Labour is demanding the Scottish Government work with NHS Tayside to tackle the situation there as a “matter of urgency”, claiming patients had been “completely betrayed”.

Tameside mum Nichola Galley has only ever wanted the best for her disabled daughter Ava.

An SNP minister has apologised after blasting Cabinet colleagues and dismissing the late Queen’s Jubilee as “royalist b*****ks” in a spate of foul mouthed messages. Elena Whitham also criticised her party’s handling of harassment claims against sex pest MP Patrick Grady and mocked opposition MSPs.

It looks like Kylie Jenner and Jordyn Woods might have rekindled their friendship once again. 

There was a time when Kylie Jenner was inseparable from her BFF Jordyn Woods, but they had a falling out four years ago in the middle of a massive cheating scandal.

A Scottish health board has been fined fined £235,000 after a patient took his own life while in their care.

Edith Bowman has revealed she spoke to her two sons about mental health after watching Lewis Capaldi struggling at Glastonbury.

Councillors have hit out at plans to radically redraw the Dumbarton Scottish Parliament constituency.

Taylor Swift‘s ‘Cruel Summer’ has re-entered the Top 40 of the UK singles charts four years after its release.The song was released on Swift’s 2019 LP ‘Lover‘, but never formally released as a single somewhat due to the outbreak of the COVID pandemic.After a rise in streams after the start of Swift’s ‘Eras’ tour, where she played ‘Cruel Summer’ live for the first time, it was then released as an official single by her label this month.After the re-release, ‘Cruel Summer’ has shot up the charts and now sits at Number 12, passing its original peak of Number 27 from 2019, per BBC News.At a recent ‘Eras’ tour show, Swift thanked fans for their streams of ‘Cruel Summer’, which had led the label to release it as a single.Swift told fans at Pittsburgh’s Acrisure Stadium that the song was her “pride and joy” and her “favourite” off her 2019 album.“The weirdest, most magical thing is happening,” Swift said from the ‘Eras‘ tour stage [via Billboard]. “It’s never happened to me in the whole time I’ve ever been doing this.“‘Cruel Summer’ is a song, I just played it a second ago.

Neil Young kicked off his first tour in four years on Friday (June 30) – watch him play a host of rarities at the Los Angeles gig below.As announced last month, Young will play a series of solo acoustic dates on the west coast this summer in his first run of headline gigs since pre-pandemic.Upon the announcement, he also revealed that he would be filling the setlists with mostly songs he has never performed live.True to form, his first show of four at Los Angeles’ John Anson Ford venue on Friday featured a host of deep cuts and rarities, including the first performance of ‘If You Got Love’ since 1986 and the first performance of Neil Young & Crazy Horse track ‘Prime Of Life’ since 1994.He also gave a full live debut to 1994 track ‘A Dream That Can Last’.See footage from the gig and the full setlist below.‘I’m The Ocean’‘Homefires’‘Burned’‘On The Way Home’‘If You Got Love’My Heart’‘A Dream That Can Last’‘Song X’‘Prime Of Life‘When I Hold You In My Arms’‘Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)’Ohio’‘Days That Used To Be’‘Don’t Forget Love’‘Heart Of Gold’Earlier this year, Young made his live comeback at a march and rally in support of the United For Old Growth campaign, which is looking to stop the Canadian government from allowing logging companies from destroying old-growth forests.Since then, he has reunited with Stephen Stills at a show in Los Angeles in April and performed at Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday party alongside Snoop Dogg, Beck and more.Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in early 2020, Young said he wouldn’t tour until the virus was “beat” and called on promoters to cancel “super-spreader” gigs.See the remaining dates of Young’s comeback tour below.

Taking Back Sunday have shared their first new music in four years with ‘The One’. Check out the music video below.Produced by Tushar Apte (Demi Lovato, Nicki Minaj) and mixed by Neal Avron (Twenty One Pilots, Bleachers), ‘The One’ is an anthemic rock ballad described as “a sweet love song – full-on John Cusack holding a boombox” by the band.On the track’s deeper meaning, the band explained: “This song came from a riff that [bassist] Shaun Cooper wrote the day he lost his grandmother while she was in a nursing home at the start of the COVID pandemic.”They continued: “Devastated with overpowering sadness, he found comfort in writing music and initially titled the riff ‘Posivibes’ in an effort to find some light through the darkness.

The NHS reaches an amazing milestone this year when it celebrates its 75th anniversary.

MSPs are being urged to copy Australia and make e-cigarettes prescription only in a bid to tackle a new “epidemic of vaping” among young people.

Scotland's pandemic Health Secretary has said the country "could have been better prepared" for Covid.