18 classic Scottish words and phrases you barely hear these days and their meanings

Police Scotland could struggle to find a replacement for its outgoing chief Iain Livingstone after his bombshell comments about the force being institutionally racist, it has been claimed.

Scotland’s police union has accused the outgoing chief constable of making cops’ jobs harder by branding the force ­institutionally racist.

The chief constable of Scotland's police force has accepted his public admission that the service is "institutionally racist and discriminatory" could have come sooner.

King Charles III thanked Armagh for the warm welcome he and Queen Camilla received during the second day of their visit to Northern Ireland.The son of the late Queen Elizabeth II attended a service at St Patrick’s Cathedral attended by various religious leaders while wife Camilla visited the Armagh Robinson Library and Museum, which is home to a number of local archaeological items. At the library Camilla met children from Drelincourt Primary School and volunteers from Dementia NI, before signing a commemorative photograph for the museum.

Going on holiday is always an exciting time, and with summer just around the corner, many of us will be getting ready to jet off.

Two heavy hearts. Ariana Madix and ex Tom Sandoval paid tribute to their late friend Ali Rafiq after his sudden death.

David Benedict Canny casting of Mike Faist (“West Side Story”) and Lucas Hedges (“Manchester by the Sea”) and abundant efforts to honor Annie Proulx’s short story “Brokeback Mountain,” immortalized in Ang Lee’s screen version, are all in place. Above all, the sincerity underpinning director Jonathan Butterell’s premiere of a stage version is never in doubt. But despite a live soundtrack of bluegrass and country songs, the production only proves you can have too much fidelity. Sticking so doggedly to the original, the production fails to find anything approaching a satisfying theatrical form. Staged in-the-round in London’s 602-seat Soho Place theater, Ashley Robinson’s notably sparse adaptation of Proulx’s story confuses literary with literal. Borrowing the story’s introductory paragraphs, Robinson provides a cliched framing device, showing the older version of Ennis (Paul Hickey) waking up besieged by difficult memories. From his bedside radio, we hear the first of Dan Gillespie Sells’ original country songs welling up. The pedal steel guitar sets the scene, but its title and chorus “Don’t Let the Years Get You Down” is an immediately worrying indication that the production will be telling as well as showing.

A mum has died following a disturbance in the street in Edinburgh on Thursday night.

Professor Green has been spotted in a popular Glasgow eatery.

Former First Minister Alex Salmond is calling on the SNP and Scottish Greens to help create a independence convention where each constituency would field just one pro-independence candidate at the next UK general election.

Anyone who is Scottish, or has spent any time in the country, will know that our language is just as deep as it is colourful.

The best days of their lives? Vanderpump Rules has officially been renewed for season 11 — and viewers are in for a messy return in the aftermath of Raquel Leviss and Tom Sandoval‘s cheating scandal.

Anyone who is Scottish, or has spent any time in the country, will know that our language is just as deep as it is colourful.

A West Lothian grandfather is climbing nine of Scotland’s highest peaks to raise fund for his grandson, who has a rare genetic condition.

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Members of Falkirk Council 's executive have criticised the Scottish Government for the sudden delay to its Deposit Return Scheme. The council was been forced to extend its contract for 'black box' kerbside recycling for another year after the Scottish Government's sudden announcement that its bottle return scheme would be delayed until March 2024.

The Scottish Government has said it remains committed to the roll-out of free school meals in primary and special schools in Perth and Kinross and across Scotland.

The Scottish Government has not started hiring 1,000 mental health specialists yet despite it being one of their key pledges from the last term of Government.

READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp communityKaty Perry, who will be performing at the Coronation Concert in Windsor Castle on Sunday evening, was also invited. The singer was seen wearing a lilac outfit with a matching hat. British Vogue’s editor-in-chief Edward Enninful, BBC director-general Tim Davie, Australian musician Nick Cave, TV presenter Jay Blades, and Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber were also in attendance.

Former first minister Alex Salmond led a crowd of thousands in a chant calling for Scotland to be independent – encouraging them to shout louder for “the benefit of those in Westminster Abbey”.