Scots households face £100 bill over lightbulb ban from next week

Scottish firefighters have urged people not to host their own private firework displays on Bonfire Night this year.

A young Scots mum has suffered horrific injuries including whiplash and severe bruising after being thrown from the bonnet of her own car during a terrifying robbery ordeal.

A talkative pensioner who visited a fast-food joint was hit with a £100 fine after meeting up with friends for a 'post Covid catch-up'.

Energy bills are expected to rocket this winter for consumers whose fixed-term contracts are coming to an end and in April next year, the price cap, which applies to around 14 million households across the UK, will rise again.

Actor Martin Compston has been given odds of 50/1 to become the next James Bond, joining fellow Scottish thespians including Richard Madden and Sam Heughan on a bookies’ list of potential names to fill the iconic role. Mr Compston, the Greenock-born Line of Duty star, has been given the quote by betting firm Skybet after being tipped by fans to take over from Daniel Craig.

Scots looking for work face relying on the UK Government's "measly" benefits system which is the least generous in northern Europe, it's been claimed.

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iOS - Android Wishaw MSP Clare Adamson said: “People are struggling even with the uplift. Yet the Scottish Tories have the temerity to defend this abominable cut."They are failing in a basic duty as MSPs to advocate for our most vulnerable constituents.

Glasgow brothers who needed new kidneys due to a rare genetic condition have now all received life-changing transplants within just three years of each other. According to Glasgow Live, John, Bill and Robert Whiteford have been given a new lease of life - and a new kidney - thanks to the incredible surgeons at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.

Police are hunting a ski mask wearing yob after a car was deliberately targeted in a late night fire attack. Emergency services were called to the scene on Anchor Crescent in Paisley at around 12.30am on Saturday, September 25.

Strictly Come Dancing fans reckon a romance might be brewing between Tilly Ramsay and her partner Nikita Kuzmin.

Scottish Government are putting women seeking abortions at risk of harassment and intimidation with a ‘postcode lottery’ on protection, say campaigners. Opposition parties and campaigners are calling for the SNP to commit to protest-free ‘buffer zones’ around abortion facilities to protect women from harassment.It comes as American-based anti-choice group 40 Days for Life began carrying-out ‘prayer vigils’ at facilities across Scotland yesterday, which will run until the end of October.

EXCLUSIVE: After a heated bidding war, Hulu has landed the drama Black Cake, from Women of the Movement creator Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment with a series order.

Blue WKD bottles from an Ayrshire bottling plant. The crooks initially broke into Caledonian Bottlers in Cumnock Business Park on Saturday, September 18, before returning to the scene two days later.

drugs after cops spotted him “sweating profusely” in Edinburgh’s Waverley train station. Lee Brunton was approached by officers in the station who suspected he and a pal were “under the influence of something”.The 28-year-old was searched and 104 benzodiazepine tablets were recovered from his rucksack.Police also found four screwdrivers in the bag and Brunton, a painter and decorator, was arrested.

health segment on the daytime show where the TV hosts were promoting Lorraine Kelly’s No Butts campaign, encouraging people to call their doctor if they had any change in their bowel habits or tummy pain. Ally, whose dad had recently been diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer, phoned her GP and asked to be referred for tests.

jail sentence. Mark Thompson, 30, poured a can of petrol over the Alfa Romeo GT Blackline JTS and set it alight just yards from a block of flats in Bainsford, Falkirk.

Scottish Labour 's health spokesperson Jackie Baillie said government ministers can't deny they didn't know about the situation after it being highlighted in parliament and in the media for several months. The First Minister announced at Holyrood yesterday that the Army is being called in to help deal with the crisis after reports people had died while waiting hours for paramedics to arrive.

stag sitting right outside his tent as he got up to go to the loo.Aaron Kirkpatrick, from Brighouse Bay in Dumfries and Galloway, was staying at Lochranza campsite, Arran, when he spotted the incredible creature late one night.The maintenance worker was walking in the dark, using the torch from his phone, when he came across the 12-pointer chilling out on the grass.Aaron said: "I was walking from the tent to go to the toilet with only my phone on me."I didn't have the light on and the stag must