Scotland Production Spend Soared to $781 Million in 2021, Study Reveals – Global Bulletin

Safe consumption rooms could be opened where ever they are needed in Scotland if a pilot scheme proves they can work, an SNP minister has said.

Scotland's Cocktail Bar of The Year was recently crowned and customers have called it "exceptional" and "extraordinary".

Scottish acting and comedy legends Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson will reunite for their first TV interview in 17-years. Appearing on a special edition of STV's Scotland Tonight, the interview will catch up with the pair who shot to fame in the 1980s as double act Victor & Barry.

Scots across the country have been enjoying the glorious sunshine, but scorching conditions are set to wind down over the weekend.

BBC Scotland has been urged to investigate its role in a murder trial which was abandoned when the key witness fled over the pressure of appearing in a documentary.

A mum and five children shared one hotel room for nearly two months due to Scotland’s shameful housing shortage.

The anonymous buyer of the largest bottle of whisky ever created was a world record-breaking aficionado in Vietnam who owns a whisky and cognac collection worth an estimated £158.3 million, it has been revealed.

MAFS Australia reality star Olivia Frazer 'feels like a fool' after moving from Down Under to Scotland for a man who had a girlfriend.

Campaigners have reacted with anger after annual deaths from alcohol in Scotland reached their highest level in 14 years.

After a wet and mild summer, claims that Scotland and the rest of the UK may be in for an Indian Summer have been circulating.

OnlyFans model and Married At First Sight star Olivia Frazer has revealed the truth behind her most recent failed relationship, as she opened up about going through a shock split. The season nine bride travelled to a remote town in Scotland to be with a man she met after starring on the experimental show. It comes after the 30-year-old vowed never to return to her home country Australia after relentless trolling following her stint on the reality TV series.

Essential school staff across Scotland have voted in favour of strike action which is expected to start in autumn if a pay deal is not struck.

Resident Advisor, the Harveys said of Seabass: “We’re artist-centric with an emphasis on quality and sustainability.“We offer fair prices, short production runs and optimised production lead times. Our ambition is to become a valuable partner to artists and the music industry in general, as well as our local community.“We’ve recently been announced as a partner of the Scottish Album of the Year award and will be pressing the records for the winner of the Sound of Young Scotland award free of charge.”The pressing plant are taking orders from September and you can find out more here.A post shared by Seabass Vinyl (@seabassvinyl)Back in 2021, figures from the music industry spoke to NME about what’s causing the delays in manufacturing vinyl and artists getting their albums made.Reports emerged of a crisis facing vinyl-lovers, with sources telling Variety that more than 500,000 copies of Adele’s album ’30’ had been pressed – causing a huge backlog and problems in the production line for others wishing to get LPs manufactured with the world’s limited resources.As even Ed Sheeran told Australian radio hosts Kyle and Jackie O about getting his recent album ‘=’ pressed: “So you have to do it like really upfront — and Adele had basically booked out all the vinyl factories, so we had to get a slot and get our album in there.

Statistics from Social Security Scotland show that almost £20million was paid to nearly 400,000 people on low incomes across the country during February and March to help with higher energy bills. In the first year of the new Winter Heating Payment, a total of £19.7 million was paid to 394,135 households, with the vast majority of eligible Scots receiving their payments of £50 automatically.

Production spend in the Scottish high-end TV (HETV) and film industries hit £617.4 million in 2021, an increase of 55% compared to 2019’s £398.6 million, according to statistics released today by Screen Scotland. 

The cost of living crisis continues to squeeze millions of household budgets this year, despite the lower energy price cap and inflation finally starting to drop. The UK Government’s cost of living payments have already provided lump sums of £301 for families on means-tested benefits and £150 for those claiming disability benefits.

Psychology and Aging, found that musicians do marginally better on cognitive ability tests than those who didn’t play an instrument.“Music can be such a joyful and enriching experience at all ages, regardless of expertise or musical genre,” Professor Katie Overy of the University of Edinburgh said. “We are keen to investigate musical experience further, including music listening and singing, and we look forward to developing the new volunteer database.”The study — funded by Age UK and the Economic and Social Research Council — included 420 participants who were born in 1936 in the Edinburgh and Lothian areas of Scotland.Of those 420 people,167 had at least some experience playing a musical instrument, mainly the piano and primarily as a child or teenager, and 39 were still playing an instrument at 82 years old.These participants were given tests to measure brainpower every three years, between the ages of 70 to 82.Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University found that those with musical experience had a slight link to greater results in tests that looked at processing speed and visuospatial reasoning.“We see these results as an exciting starting point for further investigation into how musical experience from across the life course might contribute to healthy aging,” lead author Dr.

Youths in Scotland have been urged to speak up over violence after a teen killer who stabbed a schoolboy in the heart was jailed for life.

Some of Ayrshire’s top hospitality venues are in the mix to be crowned the best bars and pubs in Scotland. The finalists for the Scottish Bar and Pub awards, formerly the DRAM Awards, have been named.

EXCLUSIVE: The Sands International Film Festival of St Andrews will return for a third edition set to run from April 19 – 21, 2024.