Top marks in West Dunbartonshire as pass rates for SQA exam results soar

Marks and Spencer fans are rushing to get their hands on a pair of £55 loafers that are 'perfect' to wear to work with chunky tights, leggings or trousers in the chilly autumn months. The M&S Leather Trim Flat Loafers, which look a lot more expensive than their £55 high street price tag, could easily be mistaken for designer brand Bottega Veneta's Madame Black Leather Loafers, but cost a whopping £855 less.

Students across the UK are being urged to receive a free meningitis jab in the rush up to the start of the next school year.

As EastEnders newcomer Anna Knight prepares to face the fallout of her estranged mother Cindy Beale’s return, it’s safe to say that there’s plenty of drama about to unfold in the coming days. From suddenly discovering she has a whole second family through to realising her mum had been living under a false identity for all of her life, tensions and emotions are bound to be running high among the Knight family.

Like many teenagers receiving their GCSE results last week, Peter Andre's eldest daughter Princess also picked up her results.The 50-year-old exclusively shared a message of congratulations in his column and revealed he drove the 16-year-old to school to pick up her grades. He said: "It was such a special moment to share with my daughter. I told her I’d be proud of her no matter what, because I saw her working very hard and that, to me, is the most important thing.

The first presidential debate of the cycle is Wednesday night — featuring all the other Republicans who are wasting exorbitant amounts of money in hopes Donald Trump will be jailed or something before next summer. It’s obviously their only chance at getting the nomination since he’s taken over the party.

Ellise Shafer Disney+ U.K. has shared a flurry of unscripted announcements out of Edinburgh TV Festival, including a Dua Lipa-produced docuseries about the London neighborhood of Camden and a first look at Keanu Reeves’ Formula One show. Lipa will produce and appear in the upcoming documentary series “Camden,” directed by “Amy” helmer Asif Kapadia, which explores how some of music’s biggest stars were forever changed by the London borough.

The multi-million pound transformation of Stockport’s bus station has reached a new milestone with the planting of the first trees in the rooftop park.

Amanda Knox is expanding her family! The 36-year-old criminal justice activist revealed she's pregnant in a new photo on social media, showing off a full baby bump with a funny caption. This will be Knox's second child with husband Christopher Robinson. The couple, who wed in 2020, welcomed their daughter, Eureka Muse Knox-Robinson, in August 2021.

Aymeric Laporte travelled to Al Nassr on Monday ahead of a £23.5million move to the Saudi Premier League side.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” has surpassed $700 million at the global box office, becoming the fourth-highest grossing movie of the year. After five weeks of release, the R-rated historical drama has generated $718 million at the worldwide box office, including $285 million in North America and $437 million internationally. The film has outperformed “Fast X” ($704 million) and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” ($686 million) and trails behind “The Super Mario Bros.

So you want to order a takeaway or visit a new restaurant but you're not sure how clean it is.

Here are your Manchester United morning headlines for Friday, August 18.

actress Crystal Finn is opening up about a scary incident during a trip to the Plumas National Forest in Northern California last month.The actress, who played Lauren Pawson in the season 4 «America Decides» episode of, revealed that she was attacked by otters while swimming in the forest's Feather River.«I felt something on my back side and on my leg,» Finn told the of the attack.She continued, «I started looking around and yelling out and [the otters] popped up right in front of me. Then they dove down and started going at me again.

Bella Thorne and Mark Emms are celebrating a big milestone. The couple, who is engaged, is celebrating their first anniversary today, August 16th.

“Red, White & Royal Blue” is making a royal entrance on Prime Video.

There’s a reason Madonna is the Queen of Pop.

A legal challenge against a UK Government decision to block Holyrood gender reforms will go ahead next month, it was confirmed today.

Scotland’s new social security headquarters has an occupancy rate of less than 40pc due to staff working from home.

Vanna White will not be on screen for five upcoming episodes of "Wheel of Fortune," but her absence is not permanent. White was sick during a day of taping the show's "Teachers Week," Fox News Digital has learned.The taping of the episodes couldn't be rescheduled due to the academic school year starting. In sticking to the theme of the episodes, Bridgette Donald-Blue, the 2023 California Teacher of the Year, filled in for White while she recovered from an illness.

Mark Ronson has trolled Bill Maher for describing Barbie as “man-hating”.In a recent post on X (formerly Twitter) Maher took aim at the film for being “preachy” and criticised a scene in which Barbie (Margot Robbie) confronts the Mattel board, which is made up of 12 men in the movie.Maher described the scene as a “zombie lie”, due to the fact that the Mattel board actually has seven men and five women on it in real life.In response to Maher’s post, Ronson, who served as a music producer and oversaw the film’s original soundtrack, jokingly quoted Nicole Kidman’s famed AMC cinema ad.“We come to this place for magic,” he wrote. “We come to AMC theatres to laugh, to cry, to care… and to furiously google ‘Mattel board configuration’ while others are trying to enjoy a fucking magnificent comedy.”OK, "Barbie": I was hoping it wouldn't be preachy, man-hating, and a #ZombieLie – alas, it was all three.