The Kunts announce third attempt at Christmas number one

In the past Scots have tried their lottery luck during the festive period hoping to bring home a huge jackpot.

Ashley Banjo has reunited with his estranged wife Francesca for Christmas as a family days after announcing their split.

Maggie Thrett, the actress and singer who most memorably played Ruth in the “Mudd’s Women” episode of the original Star Trek, has died her family announced. She was 76.

Some Scots may want to know what train services will be available over the festive period this year.

LadBaby have made chart history by securing the Christmas number one for a fifth consecutive year - surpassing a record set by The Beatles in the 1960s.

LadBaby’s latest charity single is this year’s UK Christmas number one, meaning the YouTubers have now occupied the festive top spot for five years running. And they’ve also scored more Christmas number ones than any other artist, breaking a record previously held by The Beatles, who topped the festive chart in 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1967.This year LadBaby – aka Mark and Roxanne Hoyle – joined up with money-saving expert Martin Lewis to release a cover of Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ As with their previous releases, food bank charity The Trussell Trust is a beneficiary of the charity record, though this year the Band Aid Trust will also get some of the money generated by the release.Commenting on their latest chart achievement, Mark Doyle says: “I can’t quite believe it! We’re number one! The charity has made it five years in a row.

LadBaby take early lead with Food Aid in the race for the most important Number 1 of the year – the coveted Official Christmas Number 1 2022, the Official Charts Company can confirm, but early data shows they’re in for a tussle.

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It’s the penultimate Friday before Christmas and I think we all know what that means. It means that the race to Christmas number one has begun.

Christmas, for some, can be a very lonely time of year. That's not talked about enough. But it seems that for droves of people up and down the country, they've found solace and acceptance in one song in particular - Raye's bold and bracing Escapism., which has quickly become the most unlikely contender for the coveted Official Christmas Number 1 in years. 

The king – or at least duke – of Christmas, Michael Bublé, has backed Lewis Capaldi in the race for this year’s UK Christmas number one. Despite Capaldi’s latest track being in no way Chrismassy. This follows Capaldi saying that he has a “gripe to grind with Mr Bublé”, as his new single, ‘Pointless’, is getting “hammered in the charts by Christmas songs”.Capaldi made his jokey comments last week while filming his ‘BBC Radio 2 In Concert’ show, which will air on Radio 2 tonight, as well as being watchable on the BBC’s iPlayer.“No one told me that it was probably a bad idea to release a song at Christmas – a song that has no reference to Christmas”, he told the audience at the BBC Radio Theatre.

Today, Hillman Grad announces that their Mentorship Lab, the 8-month, tuition-free program that has offered support and opportunities to marginalized creatives for two years now, will return for a third year due to its widespread success.

Happy Christmas? King Charles III and Prince William’s royal holiday festivities will be “bittersweet” without the late Queen Elizabeth II, a source exclusively reveals in the latest issue of Us Weekly.

The plug could be pulled on North Ayrshire Christmas lights next year if budget plans are ushered in.

Like mother, like daughter!

Lewis Capaldi has taken aim at Michael Bublé as he claims Christmas hits are keeping his latest single off the top of the charts.

It’s a three-horse, festive race for the UK’s Number 1 single this week as Mariah Carey, Wham! and Ed Sheeran & Elton John surge ahead towards the top of the Official Singles Chart.