Teachers seeing double as nine sets of twins start primary school in Inverclyde

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.Scots celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay and his wife Tana have announced the birth of their baby son.Ramsay announced the news to his Instagram followers today, alongside a picture of the couple and their new little bundle of joy.Little Oscar James Ramsay is their fifth child and is little brother to Megan, 21, twins Holly and Jack, 19, and Matilda, 17.The chef's announcement was full of cheeky references

crime king Arthur Thompson.Thompson wanted The Caravel and McGraw wasn’t giving it up so easily. He was making plenty of money from late licensing – with the Caravel open until 3am – and Thompson wanted in.Pubs were where the money was.

neighbour-from-hell attacked five police officers after they arrived to break up her asbo-breaching nine hour through the night party.Sarah Stewart, 23, reacted by tearing off their PPE and telling them she had coronavirus, as well as threatening to firebomb their families.Sheriff Tom Hughes jailed Stewart for 27 months and told her: "It is quite clear that on the night in question you caused considerable difficulty to your upstairs neighbour when there was an asbo against you."You paid no

Covid-19 Test and Protect team has been deployed to a Scots primary school after it was hit by the virus. Health chiefs confirmed contact tracing will be carried out at Lady Alice Primary in Greenock.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.North Lanarkshire Council has restated its intention to double nursery hours as planned by September, despite the national rollout of the programme being delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.The planned launch of the 1140 hours initiative – an increase from the current entitlement of 600 hours of funded pre-school learning – was put on hold in March by Scottish Government ministers, who revoked the

words is well-known.From Burns to Scott we've introduced the world to some it's best stories and verse.Tourist and fellow Scots alike tend to discover their favourite new word from our bonnie wee country.Though many of them may sound beautiful their meaning can often be surprising...Meaning: to cuddle or snuggle inYou might often hear a wee Scots granny telling everyone to coorie round so they can show you something.

Ayrshire more than doubled during lockdown.Crime stats show that 273 instances of fraud were recorded in the region between April 1 and June 30 this year.This huge increase means that fraud is up from 116 during the same period last year.Police Scotland say the rise reflects a national increase in fraud which is increasingly cyber-enabled as criminals take advantage of new technologies to profit from their victims. But officers say the Management Information data published today for Ayrshire

Taylor Swift is Number 1 on the Official Irish Albums Chart for a third non-consecutive week with Folklore, pipping Biffy Clyro to the post.

Lockerbie bombing will today begin an appeal bid to clear his name.Lawyers for Abdelbaset al-Megrahi’s relatives want judges to let them review secret files being withheld by the UK Government after more than three decades.The appeal will get underway after the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) referred the case to the High Court in March, ruling a possible miscarriage of justice may have occurred.Aamer Anwar, the solicitor who made the SCCRC application on behalf of Megrahi’s

Scots mum was left shocked after discovering the face of Jesus in an Aldi supermarket potato. Nikki Halkerston, 44, was unloading her shopping onto the kitchen counter when she saw the face of Christ in a pack of £1.15 Aldi tatties.She immediately called her husband over to take a look and he agreed it looked like the son of God.

“I can confirm our vehicle operating on the 240 service was involved in a bridge strike incident that resulted in the roof coming off the vehicle in Heathery Road, Wishaw.“Thankfully, no one onboard was injured in this incident, and we have launched an immediate investigation into the root cause to ensure we can learn any lessons to avoid a repeat of this type of incident in future.

coronavirus. The decision was made to shut Peterhead Central School on Wednesday night, August 12, as several employees went into precautionary self-isolation.

schools began to reopen yesterday – with many pupils, parents and teachers still expressing anxiety over Covid-19.Only Borders and some Shetland schools reopened to pupils, with the vast majority of Scots children heading back today.All pupils will return by next Tuesday. Fears have been raised about how well-prepared teachers are to deal with mitigating  the spread of the virus.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.THE number of Scots claiming benefits has more than doubled over the past year as the economy continues to feel the impact of the coronavirus lockdown.The latest figures show the number of people working in Scotland fell by 15,000 from April to June.Official figures out today show there were 222,000 claimants as of June - an increase of 9100 over the month and a rise of 112,500 over the year.For the