Scots woman who set fire to neighbour's house jailed for 18 months

Paul Burrell has claimed he had a secret meeting with Prince William and Harry back in 2017.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic You can easily hear the impact of Tina Turner in the music of Yola, one of the greatest singers of our generation. But it goes far beyond any basic level of influence for this British-bred, now Nashville-based powerhouse. Before becoming a recording artist and Grammy nominee, back in her native U.K., she was a teacher and lecturer in vocal biomechanics who would instruct young singers in how to emulate Turner’s singular voice… or at least how to try. Yola spoke with Variety about Turner, who died May 24 at age 83. These are some of her thoughts, on everything from Tina’s pure technique to the unique challenges she faced as a Black stylist without parallels or filters to her place in genre-bridging musical history.

A Scottish youth charity helping young people in the LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) community has stopped offering its support services on Twitter.

A romance which flourished in a Scots coffee shop, when barista Sophie wrote 'ur cute' on her crush's latte, is still going strong one year on.

Police in Airdrie are appealing for help to trace a 34-year-old woman who was reported missing more than a week ago.

An urgent search is ongoing for a Scottish schoolboy who disappeared five days ago.

Alison Herman TV Critic The Apple TV+ comedy “Platonic” is a reunion of the 2014 movie “Neighbors” (and its 2016 sequel “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising”), again pairing stars Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne with the writer and director Nicholas Stoller. But “Platonic” also models itself after another, more enduring classic: Nora Ephron’s “When Harry Met Sally,” a film explicitly referenced in the pilot of “Platonic” and the greatest work of art drawn from the essentially trite question of whether (straight) men and women can be friends. In “Neighbors,” Rogen and Byrne played spouses. In “Platonic,” they’re long-estranged besties who rekindle their codependent bond. As premises go, it’s a thin one. Ephron’s opus is now 34 years old, and even “When Harry Met Sally” was less seriously engaged with the idea of friendship between the sexes than using the setup as a showcase for Ephron’s wit, Meg Ryan’s charm and Ryan’s chemistry with Billy Crystal. “Men and women don’t really hang out with each other at our age,” says Sylvia (Byrne), a former lawyer who’s now a stay-at-home mother of three. Her argument is half-hearted, unconvincing and immediately dismissed by her husband Charlie (Luke Macfarlane), who encourages Sylvia to get in touch with craft brewer Will (Rogen) in the wake of his divorce. 

A Scots woman who signed up to run a marathon for a blindness charity was forced to pull out after discovering a previously unknown serious eye condition of her own. Gail Burns, from Edinburgh, had planned to run the London marathon for the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) in 2022 for her dad, when she discovered that she was suffering from her own serious issues with her eyes that medical attention.

This Massachusetts dad went above and beyond for his daughter!

A mother with multiple sclerosis has been refused a £130,000 health insurance payout for failing to disclose her symptoms - a year before she claims she had any.

A murder bid thug who cut off part of his friend's ear and scratched his name on the victim's chest has been jailed for seven and a half years. Thomas Fullerton, 29, left Liam Day in a pool of blood after turning on him at his home in Drumchapel, Glasgow, last April 30.

A woman who kept a toddler in a cage claims she had to flee her home after her partner in crime turned on her.

A former soldier who brutally murdered his daughter's partner has been jailed for at least 17 and a half years.

Police specialists and the coastguard are carrying out searches along the coast of Aberdeenshire as they continue searching for a missing woman last seen early on Saturday.

A Scots mum who has endured countless miscarriages on her journey to have children says she has one last chance at giving her son a sibling after running low on embryos.

A Scots teenager who can't feel the top to her head after undergoing surgery says her 'constantly growing' brain tumour is 'getting in the way of her dream job'.

A search has been launched for a woman who vanished from a Fife town five days ago. Sarah Watson was last seen in the Lochgelly area of Kirkcaldy on Monday, May 8.

A search has been launched for a missing man who vanished from a Fife town.

A frantic search has been launched for a Scots woman who has disappeared overnight.

A Glasgow man who woke up to find his legs on fire after falling onto a electrified train tracks has turned his life around thanks to an amputee charity. Paul Johnson was forced to have both limbs cut off above the knee after the freak accident near his home in Pollokshields.