SCOTLAND'S major new music venue under construction on the River Clyde is up to two months behind schedule and faces the prospect of headline concerts by some of the world's top rock and pop acts being cancelled.
A SOLICITOR whose 30-year legal career lay in tatters after he was caught trying to smuggle mobile phones and drugs into Edinburgh's Saughton Prison was jailed for four years yesterday.
A fresh clampdown on claims management firms has been launched by Ofcom after it found evidence of people being plagued with "annoying" and "distressing" nuisance phone calls.
THEY have renamed singer Engelbert Humperdinck as "engle Bert humper distinct" and left viewers of the weather report wondering what "fox patches" – fog patches – were.
A SHARED equity scheme designed to help home-buyers shows the Scottish Government helps people in tough times, claims Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
The Baz Luhrman collaborator, who has worked with the film director on everything from Romeo and Juliet to Moulin Rouge, will headline a packed programme on May 30 to raise funds and awareness of the Buteyko Institute Trust's Glasgow School Project.
Orkney's lifeline ferry service should be restored next week after almost a month of disruption if the vessel's sea trials in the Firth of Forth are successful tomorrow.