Sick intruders smash holy statue during rampage at Scottish church

Andy Wightman, a well-known campaigner for land reform before entering politics, will now sit as an independent until next year's Holyrood election. In a letter to Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, he said was "saddened by the intolerance shown by some party members to an open and mature dialogue about the tensions and conflicts around questions of sex and gender in the context of transgender rights and women’s rights".

Craig David, Tinie Tempah and KSI as the trio joined our volunteers to prepare food for hungry children in celebration of he successful end of our Help the Hungry appeal. The three stars arrived at London Scottish House, a historic venue in Westminster that has been loaned to our appeal in partnership with charity With Compassion, to lend a hand to volunteers  including The Independent’s largest shareholder Evgeny Lebedev.

Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley seat at next year’s Scottish Elections after clinching the nomination for Labour.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A flat with influences of Charles Rennie Mackintosh has hit the market as Renfrewshire’s house prices have grown by 6.7 per cent.Registers of Scotland revealed the UK House Prince Index surge has come despite the pandemic.Renfrewshire was above the  average Scottish growth of six per cent, while East Renfrewshire rose by exactly six per cent.The figures were taken from October 2019 and October 2020 and means

As well as the McQueen Pink Gin (£15.99 down to £13.49) and McQueen Colour Changing Gin (£15.99 down to £13.49).They also have the recently produced Old Curiosity Eidyn Premium Scottish Gin which is now down to £15.99 at participating Scottish stores.

Ruby Murry's have done just that!Part of their new Christmas Special, the Indian food specialists, who are based at Tollcross, have created two festive spins on the traditional South Asian favourite.Featuring the green coloured Grinch inspired Brussels Sprouts pakora as well as chicken and stuffing bites, each £4 box contains 6 pieces of mixed festive Pakora.Mahmood Ahmed, who owns Ruby Murry's, told Glasgow Live: "We were keen to combine classic Christmas ingredients and flavours with a

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.THE Ford Puma compact crossover has been crowned the Scottish Car of the Year for 2020.The trophy is usually handed over by the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers at a glittering awards ceremony but the Covid-19 crisis meant this year’s event took place virtually.Association members nominated their favourite cars of 2020 before whittling them down to a shortlist and voting for the SCOTY winner.ASMW

queens will be battling for the crown of Next Drag Superstar on season two of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. Lawrence Chaney, from Glasgow and Ellie Diamond, from Dundee, are among the 12 drag queens taking part in the hit BBC Three show when it airs on Thursday, January 14.

coronavirus deaths have been recorded in Scotland over the last 24 hours. The Scottish Government also announced that 845 new cases of COVID-19 were reported overnight.

Christmas bundle with 12 canned festive Candy Cane Mojito cocktails (£56).These exciting Scottish gin crackers are the perfect way to share a gin (or two) with family and friends this Christmas.A box of six crackers, each comes with a 50ml Barra Atlantic Gin miniature (Christmas hat and joke included), is priced at just £38.25 and even comes with a chance of finding a golden ticket and winning a year's supply of Barra Gin. Don't worry if you prefer to have whisky instead of gin, these crackers

Michael Sharpe announced his resignation yesterday.

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South Lanarkshire. Emergency crews raced to the crash involving at least four vehicles near the Bothwell service station at around 6.30pm this evening.

coronavirus deaths have been recorded in Scotland over the last 24 hours. The Scottish Government also announced that 800 new cases of Covid-19 were reported overnight, taking the total figure to 106,170.

immunisation programme in its history. This week the first jabs were carried out by the NHS in a huge breakthrough as the fightback against the C ovid-19 pandemic begins.

coronavirus deaths have been recorded in Scotland over the last 24 hours. The Scottish Government also announced that 1,064 new cases of Covid-19 were reported overnight, taking the total figure to 105,370.

Ayrshire this morning.