The director of Oscar-winning Disney Pixar movie Brave, set in a mythical Scotland, has said that if the right story was found, the cast and characters of the animated movie could re-assemble for a sequel.

Mark Andrews is in Scotland for the next fortnight, teaching and lecturing at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA), working with students from fine art, design and architecture and at the digital design studio. Watch the video below.

Now Hollywood actor James McAvoy has become the latest to be visibly irked by activity from the audience.

During a performance of Macbeth in London, the Scots star saw a member of the audience was filming him with a mobile phone.

The Glasgow-born actor, who was playing the role of Shakespeare's Scottish king at the Trafalgar Studios, remonstrated with the man.

One witness said the actor shouted at him and asked him to stop filming.

"The poor fellow looked very embarrassed," a witness said.

The literary world was shocked this week when the popular Scottish author announced he has only months to live.

Banks, the writer of books such as Complicity and The Crow Road, as well as a series of acclaimed science-fiction novels, revealed he has advanced gall bladder cancer.

He is currently on honeymoon with his wife Adele in Italy, where, according to his friend and fellow Fife-born writer Ian Rankin, he is "enjoying life to the max".