THEY are being snapped up around the world to such an extent, the healthcare industry is running out of supplies. The surgical mask is more than 100 years old and surging in sales amid fears over the spread of the coronavirus.
A NEW gang film has been banned by a second cinema chain after it sparked a mass brawl. But does history show that such actions only aid the movies in question, proving any publicity is good publicity?
Tanera Mor, the largest and only inhabited island in the Summer Isles archipelago, is being sold by the Wilder family, who bought it in 1996. Lying off Wester Ross, the 800-acre isle was the setting for Frank Fraser Darling's 1943 book Island Farm.
The name might not be familiar, but the controversy over the salary he earns most probably will be. Just as the futuristic dome of Scotland's largest entertainment venue, the £125m Hydro arena, began to really take shape, there were also plenty of column inches dedicated last summer to the £190,000 salary and £85,000 in bonus payments paid to the boss of Glasgow's SECC complex.
But, having turned her life around, the 18-year-old is being recognised among women who have made a significant impact on Scottish society.
Yet "business in the front and party in the back" was how Les Misérables star and Oscar winner Anne Hathaway described her halterneck pale pink Prada dress, which sparked a frenzy of interest on social networking sites.
William Chambers is the first milliner to collaborate with the company, which specialises in ladies' occasionwear.
Dundee-based Advanced Pest Solutions (APS), which compiles the Scottish Midge Forecast website, has found a four-fold increase year-on-year in the number of midges caught at sample sites across Scotland.
But sandwiched between performances by the Royal Ballet and a new production of Les Troyens, 17 people from a homeless drop-in centre in Glasgow will next week perform at the world-renowned theatre as part of the London 2012 Festival.
For the first time in its 10-year history, 50 marshals have been trained in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation by the British Heart Foundation, while the Scottish Ambulance Service will have 35 staff in attendance, in addition to 100 first-aiders, six doctors and 10 nurses on site.
