Teenager charged after alleged rape in Scots city centre car park

A growing list of 300 film professionals, including Martin Scorsese, Olivier Assayas, Joanna Hogg, and Radu Jude, have signed an open letter calling for the contract of outgoing Berlinale Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian to be reinstated and extended beyond 2024. 

Carlo Chatrian whose mandate as artistic director of the Berlinale will come to an end next year. As we reported last week, Chatrian had been expected to stay on beyond 2024, and was surprised to learn that the German body which oversees the festival, Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin (KBB), announced that it would no extend his contract. The org had previously said it would abandon the model of having an executive director and an artistic director and return instead to having a single director, following the next edition.

A man was rushed to hospital with serious injuries after an incident on a Scots street.

A third man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Amy Rose Wilson who was killed in a crash in Falkirk on July 29.

A third man has been arrested and charged over the death of Falkirk woman Amy Rose Wilson.

A woman who was raped repeatedly by a serial beast has demanded to address the Parole Board for Scotland before it decides whether to free him early.

Pregnant visitors at a Scots tourist attraction have been enjoying sneak peaks at their unborn babies thanks to a special thermal camera.

Two men have been arrested and charged in connection with the death of Falkirk woman Amy Rose Wilson.

A pensioner has died in a Scots town after she took unwell earlier today.

A Scottish Labour councillor has been charged in relation to alleged grooming offences following a police investigation in Fife.

Perth and Kinross schools could close in the autumn after support staff voted overwhelmingly to walk out over pay.

A couple visiting Edinburgh from Australia have been left "blown away" after a kind act from a stranger soon after arriving in the city. Tina and her husband Mark Walker from Queensland were struggling with steep stairs and cobbled roads after coming out of Waverly train station.

A third man has been arrested and charged in connection with an alleged attempted murder at a Glasgow shop.

Local calls have returned urging the decriminalisation of personal drug use after the number of drug-related deaths in Perth and Kinross increased – despite a nationwide decrease.

A Scot told how she had to hoover up a giant spider after waking up to the find the arachnid on the wall by her bed.

A young thug who repeatedly booted a man on the head when he was lying unconscious on the ground has been sentenced to a year's detention. Jak Biggam, 21, broke David Walker's cheekbone in the violent attack in a shopping centre car park, a court heard.

Kenneth Branagh is opening up about his upcoming movie, A Haunting In Venice, and revealed that he wanted to keep the movie as scary as possible – even for the cast.

A teenager has died after being found in the street with serious injuries as they investigate his death.

A soldier has been charged over an alleged glass attack on her holiday friend in a Magaluf nightclub.

A "loving dad" has died after allegedly being hit by a vehicle on a busy Glasgow city centre street.