'Thousands are praying' Major search continues for young Scots walker last seen taking selfie at top of Ben Nevis

CANNES – If you’ve already read Graham Swift’s novel “Mothering Sunday,” you’re well aware of the sensual and provocative nature of many of the scenes. The description of young English housemaid Jane Fairchild and the relatively young lord of the manor Paul Sheringham’s coupling leaves little to the imagination.

charity work. Aylesha Meades tragically passed away in hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning after being found on St Ninian’s beach, near Lerwick.

gin to his schoolmates has bucked the trend during lockdown by launching his own drinks business.Bruce Walker, 22, from Broomhill in Glasgow's west end, turned his passion for spirits into a company called Purist Gin after finding himself jobless when the first coronavirus lockdown hit.Within months of him launching, the first batch of his new juniper spirit had won a bronze medal at the Scottish Gin Awards in a category with 150 entrants, including established names like Edinburgh Gin and Isle

missing Scots walker has been found five days after the last sighting of the owner. We told yesterday how Neil Scott, of Campbeltown, Argyle and Bute, was last seen around 1pm on Tuesday at the Co-Op in the area, and is believed to have attended at the local post office shortly after.

Guy Lodge Film CriticIt’s a curious quirk of the British calendar that Mother’s Day — or Mothering Sunday, if you want to be formal about it — falls not in May, with all that month’s springy symbolism of new life, but the damp, unripe chill of mid-March, when no one feels much like celebrating anything at all.

If the Merchant Ivory factory of well-appointed period British cinema was still in operation, a film adaptation Graham Swift’s novella Mothering Sunday, debuting today as part of the Cannes Film Festival Cannes Premiere section, might have been something they would have snapped up immediately.

missing Scots nurse who left her home two days ago have stepped up their search efforts. Cops and firefighters were spotted searching a stretch of water in the Allandale area of Falkirk last night after Gillian Ballantyne vanished from Coneypark Place, Banknock, at around 10am on Tuesday July, 6.

Lisa Kennedy In “Bring Your Own Brigade,” Lucy Walker acts as a compassionate and dogged guide into the inferno. A transplant to the American West — California, to be more precise — from verdant Britain, the documentary filmmaker cast herself as a concerned and rightly flummoxed outsider while investigating increasingly extended and catastrophic wildfire seasons.

Trainspotting’s Sick Boy actor has been confirmed to play Sir John Major in the next series of The Crown. Jonny Lee Miller, who is best known for his role as the heroin addict in the hit 1996 film, has been cast as the former Prime Minister for season five of the Netflix show.

top-tier crime group which tried to flood the streets with drugs and firearms has been jailed for three years. Eric Morrison Junior was caged at the High Court in Glasgow after being involved with a serious organised crime group in the West of Scotland.

Officers have renewed an appeal for missing 22-year-old Shelly-Ann Daly from Lanark as concern grows for her welfare. Shelly-Ann was last seen around 6.10pm on Saturday, 19 June at the Palace Grounds in Hamilton.