Heroic Scots councillor donating cells to 'one in a million match' to save strangers life

A knife attacker who murdered a father-of-three in a brutal street attack after stabbing him in the neck was jailed for life today.

The mother of a woman who took her own life at Polmont young offenders' institution says suicidal prisoners are placed in "torture cells" rather than being given therapeutic care.

Scotland’s prisons are “bursting at the seams” with nearly 1,800 prisoners doubling up in cells built for one person.

Scottish cousins who received heart transplants at the same age in their mid-40s have spoken of the new lease of life their procedures have given them.

Good old-fashioned leafleting came to the rescue as more than 100 people attended a meeting to save a popular community centre.

King Charles has met Scots schoolchildren who are learning rural skills on an estate he helped to save.

A frantic search has been launched in an effort to locate a Scots man who vanished two days ago.

Two men have been charged after a police raid recovered £1 million worth of 'street valium.'

Lorraine Kelly thanked staff at a Scots hospital after her mum made a full recovery from a serious health issue.

A Scots mum was left horrified after her security camera captured an intruder breaking into her home - and falling asleep on her bed.

A young Scots woman who died just months after a shock cancer diagnosed has been described as "beautiful person" by her devastated loved ones.

A pensioner has died after being hit by a car in Renfrew. Emergency services raced to Cambridge Road after reports that an 81-year-old man had been knocked down by a blue Ford Focus at around 8am on Tuesday.

British Airways has launched its September flash sale, with plenty of discounts on flights for 2024.

A suspected 'human bone' has been discovered on a beach in the Highlands.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor “Sex is back,” said Julie Hintsinger, executive director of the Telluride Film Festival, to a packed house of festival-goers as they took in the newest effort from Yorgos Lanthimos at this year’s 50th anniversary. One of the festivals tributes this year, a pre-screening convo was moderated by director Karyn Kusama, as the two discussed his filmography which included his early works “Kinnetic” and “Alps.” In the audience were Oscar winners like director Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) and actor Casey Affleck (“Manchester by the Sea”), and they, along with the crowd, devoured it.

A heroic Scottish swimmer known as “The Merman” rescued a Spaniard drowning on a beach in Thailand.

Guy Lodge Film Critic It’s a failing of our society that we’ve allowed “interesting” to become a euphemism, a blandly veiled insult, something to say when no other praise comes to mind. Little in life is more important than interest: having it, attracting it, identifying it in any crevice of the everyday, making it strange and fresh in the process.

Back in 2009, Yorgos Lanthimos led the so-called Greek Weird Wave with the Oscar-nominated Dogtooth, an unsettling exploration of a family of teenagers kept from the world by their father in a gated estate that they could never leave. The family is rich, so they can have anything they want except the wide world and their freedom; even sex can be bought in. 

A third Italiana Fiftyfive restaurant - formerly Cibo - has opened in Manchester.

Caleb Landry Jones hits the red carpet with longtime girlfriend Katya Zvereva for the premiere of Dogman during the 2023 Venice Film Festival on Thursday (August 31) in Italy.