Teachers may strike over 'profoundly disappointing' pay offer, Scots union says

More than a quarter of Scotland's prison population is made up of people who are on remand and have not yet been to trial. Over 2000 inmates are languishing behind bars - despite officially being innocent of the crimes they have been charged with.

A 23-year-old disabled woman may have to move in with OAPs at a nursing home as she can’t afford to pay for electricity to power her life-saving equipment.

A ‘missing’ poster has been issued for Douglas Ross over his absence from the debate over the cost of living crisis.

Council chiefs have made a revised pay offer to staff in a bid to avert strikes that are set to close schools

Pay rises for better-off council staff would be capped under plans discussed to end waves of strikes by local authority workers.

Britney Spears doesn't want to do a tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey. The 40-year-old pop star gained control of her multimillion-dollar fortune and various aspects of her life when a conservatorship governed by her family was terminated back in 2021 after 13 years but despite receiving several lucrative offers, she thinks her story is "beyond" the concept of a sit-down interview. She said: "I really don’t think any of that is relevant, getting paid to tell your story.

Police are appealing for help to find a teenager reported missing from Ayrshire overnight. Charlie Crichton was last seen at around 11.30pm on Saturday, August 27, in Kilwinning but has failed to make contact since.

three-decade-long journey to get made, Gaiman said in a recent appearance on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that top brass at Warner Bros. told him of the King of Pop’s interest in the part. “By 1996, I was being taken to Warners, where the then-president of Warner Bros.

Talks aimed at ending a council worker strike that has seen rubbish pile up in Scottish streets are continuing amid warnings over the impact on public health. Bosses at Public Health Scotland have told local authorities the “decontamination of public areas where bins have overflowed may be required”.

Desperate mum Helen Croly said the bombshell fuel hikes will make it impossible for her family to function properly through the winter.

Queen Elizabeth will reportedly appoint the UK's new Prime Minister at Balmoral. The 96-year-old monarch - who has been suffering with health issues and mobility difficulties in recent months - arrived at her Scottish residence last month and had been expected to interrupt her annual 10-week summer break to return to Buckingham Palace on 6 September to officially accept Boris Johnson's resignation and to welcome either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak into office, but now plans have been drawn up for the politicians to travel instead. A source told The Sun newspaper: “The Queen has now been advised not to travel.

A Scots girl has been invited to fly to New York to meet singer-songwriter Jax after a video of her singing Victoria's Secret went viral.

A trade union leader has savaged the Scottish Government over its role in the dispute over council workers' pay.

Exam appeals are set to be "severely delayed" when staff from the Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) go on strike next month over pay.

More than three-quarters of doctors who took part in a recent survey have said they are prepared to strike in a pay dispute. The study, undertaken by BMA Scotland, spoke to 3,100 medics north of the border between July 20 and August 5 after a 4.5% offer was rejected.

Darius Campbell Danesh 's shocking death stunned the world after the star was found dead aged 41.

Horrified pupils and teachers watched as two armed thugs tried to rob a dad of his car outside a Scots primary school.

BreAnna Bell A project based on the bestselling novel “The Many Daughters of Afong Moy” is in the works at UCP.“Today” co-host Jenna Bush Hager and Ben Spector (“Land of Women”) will executive produce through their first-look deal at Universal Studios Group.Hailing from author Jamie Ford, the novel follows former poet laureate Dorothy Moy who tackles her emotional issues by channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. According to a release, Moy suddenly finds herself having to confront her past “when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors.”“Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help,” the release continues.

The leader of Falkirk Council has said she is disappointed in the offer that was made to council workers on Friday at a special meeting of COSLA.