Youth on off-road motorbike seen pulling wheelie past learner on busy Scots road

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic In my earliest years, the evening didn’t end until Vanna White said good night. I was in one of the parts of America where “Wheel of Fortune” comes on after “Jeopardy!” (the only proper order — a roughage-filled meal, then dessert). And I’d insist on staying up past the last ad break to hear the chat between White and “Wheel” host Pat Sajak for 45 seconds or so, wrapping on a sincere-sounding sendoff that gave me the all-clear to trundle up the stairs. Why did I have to wait for the last moments with Vanna? Well, part of it was a child’s literalism: she hadn’t said good night, so it wasn’t yet that time. But part, too, was an attempt to wring out every last moment of White’s particular charm from “Wheel’s” half-hour. White — perhaps even more than Sajak, a consummate emcee of the old school — seemed to represent in one person what “Wheel” was all about. A model for an endless array of spectacular gowns and an ornament on a show whose gameplay didn’t strictly require a letter-turner as technology improved, she represented all the glamour and luxurious promise of cash prizes, free vacations and the gilded sunlight of California. And yet presenting in complete earnest, from her glee or sorrow for a contestant who won the game or who bought the wrong vowel to her utter commitment to trading pleasantries with Sajak, she was a fabulous contradiction — a quintessentially middle-American celebrity.

Four dogs have been shot dead by a farmer outside Moffat, Dumfriesshire, after the pack of animals were "abandoned" on Sunday morning and attacked and killed sheep.

A cyclist has been rushed to hospital after a crash with a lorry on the A9 in the early hours of this morning.

Cops are hunting two men who crashed a motor into a lamppost in Dundee and fled the scene.

One Direction star Niall Horan was seen with not one but two Celtic tops, including the controversial new home kit, while he was in Glasgow to play his set at TRNSMT.

A German tourist had her motorbike stolen from outside an Edinburgh B&B on Friday afternoon, with police probing the theft.

Music fans still have time to buy a ticket for Scotland’s biggest festival, which begins on Friday.

Police have launched an appeal to trace a missing teen who was last seen in Fife on Wednesday morning.

A man from Alloa has been reported missing after he disappeared following the filming of Antiques Roadshow in Glasgow.

The King’s visit to Edinburgh finished with a stunning Red Arrows flypast over the city’s Royal Mile.

After you get used to the motions of driving daily, it can become super easy to assume you know everything, and forget some common rules of the road.

Without a doubt the Lake District is one of the most beautiful landscapes you’ll find in the country. It has rugged mountains, green valleys, and of course, breathtaking lakes.

Naman Ramachandran Music Box Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Richie Adams’ “The Road Dance,” the Scottish adaptation of John McKay’s 2002 bestselling novel. In the film, Kirsty MacLeod (Hermione Corfield) dreams of a better life away from the isolation that suffocates her in a small village on an island in the Outer Scottish Hebrides. Suppressing these aspirations, she sees her lover Murdo (Will Fletcher) conscripted for service in WWI, soon to set off and fight alongside the other young men from the village. A road dance is held in their honor the evening before they depart, and it’s on this fateful evening that Kirsty’s life takes a dramatic and tragic turn.

Warner Bros.’ “Barbie” and Universal’s “Oppenheimer,” two films that have captured the internet’s imagination with their shared July 21 release, have hit box office tracking with early projections expecting solid results for both films. “Barbie,” as long expected, is projected to take No. 1 that weekend with a $70 million-plus opening.

EXCLUSIVE: Music Box Films has picked up U.S. rights to director Richie Adams’ well-reviewed drama The Road Dance, starring Hermione Corfield.

Scarlett Moffatt has welcomed her first child with partner Scot Dobinson.

A 14-year-old is training to become a shepherdess - and saved up to buy two lambs. Hayley MacDonald lives in Friockheim, Angus, with her brother Kai, 12, and foster carers Alison Yates, 59, and husband Ron, 55.

A mobile welfare unit worth tens of thousands has been snatched from a major Ayrshire road.

Broadcaster Nicky Campbell has hit out at delays in bringing an alleged abuser at his former school to justice while he lives in luxury.

A Kilwinning teenager will head across the world with the Police Scotland Youth Volunteer (PSYV) programme this summer.