Gatehouse Scottish Country Dancers celebrate 70 years of taking the floor

Freak weather conditions sparked a five-mile wildfire in the Scottish Highlands as locals basked in a tropical 18 degrees. The blaze took hold close to Assynt, near Lochinver, Sutherland, on Sunday afternoon as the region was battered by wind gusts of up to 70mph.

Whether you live in Edinburgh or just visit the Scottish capital regularly, you may be unaware that there is a massive abandoned train tunnel that runs directly underneath the city.

The Masked Singer was back on Saturday night. It was the first time all eight remaining characters were on the show, as Ellie Goulding starred as a guest judge alongside Davina McCall, Rita Ora, Mo Gilligan and Jonathan Ross.

cat-tails of their celebrity owners’ success and reach celebrity status of their own — as the celeb’s partner-in-crime or even sometimes becoming more popular than their owners.Meet the nepo pets that have the pup-arazzi all over them:Claudia Schiffer brought her feline cat to the red carpet for the premiere of the film “Argylle” in London’s Leicester Square, introducing the nepo pet to the world.The 53-year-old German actress and model’s black and grey Scottish Fold named Chip has his own Instagram account with 14,900 followers, but he’s more than Insta famous.His Instagram bio reads, “Star of @argyllemovie, author, model, entrepreneur, influencer, nepo kitty.”Chip made his Hollywood debut after being cast in the film directed by Schiffer’s husband, Matthew Vaughn.He also has a “paw-tobiography” called “Blue Chip: Confessions of Claudia Schiffer’s Cat.”Taylor Swift’s three cats are well known among her fans — but they also have a pretty impressive net worth.Swift, 34, is now estimated to be worth $1.1 billion, according to Forbes, yet her cat Olivia Benson is one of the world’s richest cats.The Scottish Fold, named after Mariska Hargitay’s “Law & Order: SVU” character, that she adopted in 2014 has an estimated net worth of $97 million.According to a list of the world’s wealthiest pets compiled by AllAboutCats.com, Benson “earned her fortune starring alongside her owner in several music videos” as well as “crafted her own merchandise line, and has had cameos in many big-budget ads, including for the likes of Diet Coke and Ned Sneakers.”It’s unclear exactly how much Swift’s cats Meredith Grey and Benjamin Button are worth, but they’re worth a pretty penny.Benjamin Button recently joined Swift in her photoshoot for TIME’s

The shocking case of a Renton NHS worker who has waited more than three years for a knee replacement was raised at Holyrood last week.

Whether she's surrounded by glitter in the ballroom or the roundtable in a Scottish castle, Claudia Winkleman is always winning praise from viewers over the latest TV escapades. And when she's not on our TV screens, she can be heard entertaining listeners on BBC Radio 2.

Theo Bair admits comparisons with Lionel Messi from Motherwell fans gave him a chuckle after copping flak earlier in the season.

Emily Longeretta SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the first four episodes of “The Traitors,” now streaming on Peacock. Ever since both the BBC and Peacock adapted the Dutch series “De Verraders” into “The Traitors,” it’s been a hit. Both produced by Studio Lambert, the U.K. version premiered on the BBC in November 2022, with the U.S.

EXCLUSIVE: Ruaridh Mollica says he had a year to prepare for his “role of a lifetime — so far” in Finnish filmmaker Mikko Makela’s powerful new film Sebastian, which premieres at Sundance on Sunday.

If you’ve been online recently, you might have seen a rumor that Taylor Swift is the mysterious author of a novel.

With temperatures continuing to plummet and the winter blues in full force, many of us will already be in need of a holiday.

Matthew Vaughn, director of Argylle, is clearing things up and shutting down conspiracy theories that claim Taylor Swift wrote the book on which the film is based.

Taylor Swift knows a thing or two about being catnip.Indeed, the pop superstar worked all of her flirtatious feline wiles as Bombalurina in “Cats,” the much-maligned 2019 movie adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical.But Swift had a different kind of kitty persuasion on “Argylle,” the upcoming spy thriller starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, John Cena, Samuel L. Jackson and more.Director Matthew Vaughn (“Kick-Ass,” “X-Men: First Class” and the “Kingsman” films) says that it was the “Anti-Hero” singer who was “responsible” for the scene-stealing Scottish Fold cat featured in the film, which hits theaters Feb. 2.It all started when Vaughn’s two daughters with his supermodel wife, Claudia Schiffer, convinced their mother to buy them a Scottish Fold for Christmas after seeing Swift’s cat in her 2020 “Miss Americana” documentary.

A conspiracy theory suggesting Taylor Swift penned the novel Argylle has been dismissed by the film's director Matthew Vaughn.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Taylor Swift is not the mysterious author behind the “Argylle” book that served as the inspiration for Apple’s upcoming spy thriller from director Matthew Vaughn. Conspiracy theories have circulated on social media for months alleging Swift is the author “Elly Conway,” a pseudonym for the writer whose manuscript was apparently so astonishing that it led to a reported $200 million deal for the film rights. Screenwriter Jason Fuchs adapted Conway’s book into Vaughn’s movie.

A popular seaside town has had a helping hand - or paw - with its tourism in recent years, in the form of a much-loved local cat. Parsley has built up a huge social media following for his antics in Oban, and has even had visitors from all over the world.

A Covid bereaved group has called on the Scottish and UK governments to tell the “truth” about the early days of the Covid lockdown in Scotland, ahead of the UK Covid Inquiry resuming north of the border. The UK Covid-19 Inquiry resumes on Tuesday with hearings in Edinburgh over the next three weeks.

An Outlander boss has been opening up on the “challenges” faced by show makers that are different to other productions.

Antiques Roadshow expert Theo Burrell has marked eleven years with her partner Alex, two years after being diagnosed with incurable brain cancer.The 36 year old antiques expert, who joined the BBC show in 2018, was tragically diagnosed with a grade four brain tumour - known as a Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) - one year after the birth of her son.Theo celebrated eleven years with Alex as she shared a black-and-white photo of the pair to her Instagram. She penned the caption: "The last week has been quite a big one - my partner, Alex, had his birthday and we celebrated 11 years together.

New details are emerging about the death of Queen Elizabeth and why Princess Catherine (aka Kate Middleton) was not present.