News / Vanessa Taaffe

Vanessa Taaffe

vanessa.taaffe@stv.tv

Vanessa is a reporter with STV News covering national and local stories. She was previously an assistant producer. Her work includes covering elections, COP26, Brexit and Scotland’s drugs crisis.

Glasgow: Ibrox Primary School bike bus helps children cycle to school safely

Children encouraged to cycle to school safely on bike bus

1 month ago

Israel-Hamas war: ‘My husband is stuck in Gaza – I wake up each day not knowing if he’s alive’

UK & International

'My husband is stuck in Gaza - I wake up each day not knowing if he's alive'

1 month ago

Scottish Jewish leaders warn community ‘scared’ over future amid violence in Israel and Gaza

'People are looking over their shoulder - we're scared about the future'

2 months ago

Rangers fans to be offered free CPR training as part of partnership between club and British Heart Foundation

Rangers fans attending games to be offered free CPR training

2 months ago

‘The system isn’t fair’: Homeowners braced for large council tax hikes under Scottish Government proposals

Scotland

'The system isn't fair': Homeowners braced for large council tax hikes

3 months ago

Türkiye cosmetic surgery: Sometimes the price of perfection comes at a much greater cost

Insight

Türkiye surgery: Sometimes the price of perfection comes at a much greater cost

Vanessa Taaffe

Scotland’s first dedicated baby loss ward opens in University Hospital Wishaw

Scotland's first baby loss unit opens for bereaved families

3 months ago

Friends of cyclist Emma Burke Newman killed in lorry collision call for safer junctions across Glasgow city centre

Friends of cyclist killed in lorry collision call for safer junctions

3 months ago

Primary ones mark first day of school as campaigners win law change

Primary ones mark first day of school as campaigners win law change

4 months ago

River Garden: Rehab village on how it helps survivors of addiction rebuild their lives

Inside drug rehab village where lives are rebuilt

5 months ago

Owners of evacuated Glasgow tenement ‘fed up paying mortgages on homes left to rot’

'We're fed up paying mortgages on homes left to rot'

6 months ago

Humza Yousaf accuses UK Government of ‘holding devolution in contempt’ over deposit return scheme block reports

Politics

FM: Westminster 'holding devolution in contempt' over DRS block report

6 months ago

Scottish Government: Mum of man who nearly died from alcohol abuse backs calls for advertising ban

'My son nearly died from alcohol abuse - banning ads will save lives'

6 months ago

Plans for 38-acre solar farm on the island of Cumbrae rejected by council

Plans for 38-acre solar farm on island rejected by council

6 months ago

Former US President Donald Trump takes swipe at Nicola Sturgeon during visit to golf course at Turnberry

Donald Trump takes swipe at Nicola Sturgeon during Turnberry visit

7 months ago

Syrian family work alongside Paisley Museum to tell story of 2,000 year old glass collection

Syrian family help Scots museum tell story of ancient glass collection

7 months ago

Plans for island of Cumbrae solar farm branded ‘a travesty’ for local community and wildlife

Plans for 38-acre solar farm branded 'a travesty' for island community

7 months ago

Parents of French American woman Emma Newman killed in HGV crash in Glasgow call for safer roads for cyclists

'More protection for cyclists on roads could have saved our daughter'

7 months ago

Woman faced with selling home after cryptocurrency scam, using Martin Lewis, led to £150k debt

Woman faces selling home after cryptocurrency scam led to £150k debt

8 months ago

Carr Gomm charity say hundreds have asked for blankets, hot water bottles and flasks in Argyll and Bute

Hundreds ask for blankets, hot water bottles and flasks as bill soar

8 months ago

Owner of gorilla statue named Gary pleads for safe return after heist at Reynard Nursery, Carluke

Gorilla heist: Owner of eight-foot ape statue pleads for safe return

9 months ago

Iconic Glasgow bakery Mortons Rolls announce return to production on March 19 as new investor steps in

Mortons Rolls announces return to production as new investor steps in

9 months ago

Hundreds of workers at Glasgow bakery Mortons Rolls made redundant as business collapses

Hundreds of workers at Mortons Rolls made redundant as bakery collapses

9 months ago

Mortons Rolls issues redundancy letters as future of Glasgow bakery unclear

Mortons Rolls issues redundancy letters as future of bakery unclear

9 months ago

University of Dundee company supporting Muslims with diabetes to help them ‘fast safely’ during Ramadan

North East & Tayside

Muslim people with diabetes helped to 'fast safely' during Ramadan

9 months ago

Scottish teacher strikes set to go ahead this month as union rejects latest pay deal

Scotland

Teaching union rejects 'smoke and mirrors' pay deal as strikes to continue

10 months ago

Family seeking asylum fear broken system after being evicted from Coatbridge property and left homeless

Family seeking asylum left homeless after 12-hour ordeal

10 months ago

Residents in Maryhill, Glasgow, occupy flats to stop demolition by Wheatley Group housing association

Sit-in protest to stop 'remarkable' flats being demolished

11 months ago

‘Harm coming to patients and staff’ as NHS faces ‘unprecedented crisis’, British Medical Association claims

Scotland

'Harm coming to patients and staff' as NHS faces 'unprecedented crisis'

11 months ago

Glasgow City Mission helps homeless people into accommodation

'We'll help people off the streets and into somewhere to call home'

12 months ago

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One man dead and two survivors pulled from rubble in Edinburgh after explosion destroys home

Edinburgh & East

One man dead and two survivors pulled from rubble after explosion destroys home

Glasgow Airport suspends all flights amid snow and ice alert over Scotland

Glasgow Airport suspends all flights amid snow and ice alert over Scotland

Snow alert for Glasgow and the west amid plunging temperatures and ice across Scotland

Scotland

Snow alert for Glasgow and the west amid plunging temperatures and ice

Mother of teen Dylan Irvine who died in A90 car crash speaks of agony as driver Jake Summers convicted

North East & Tayside

'I drive past the spot my son died every day - the pain is agonising'

Murder trial told four-year-old boy saw riverside fight

Murder trial told four-year-old boy saw riverside fight

SNP president Michael Russell announces resignation from role

Politics

SNP president Michael Russell announces resignation

‘Much loved son’ who died in Renfrew named as man charged in connection

Police name 'much loved son' as man charged in connection with death

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Slab Boys and Tutti Frutti writer and artist John Byrne dies aged 83

Scotland

Slab Boys and Tutti Frutti writer and artist John Byrne dies aged 83

Dundee space firm Smiths Interconnect welcomes funding boost which will help to expand its mission

North East & Tayside

Scots space firm welcomes funding boost to help expand mission

Concerns over future of nursing in Scotland as fewer students opt to join profession

Concerns over future of nursing as fewer students opt to join profession

Rangers manager Philippe Clement sees progress but says Rome wasn’t built in a day

Sport

'Rome wasn't built in a day': Clement sees Rangers as work in progress

Lorraine Kelly celebrates birthday with celebrity well-wishers and surprise cake presented by Brian Cox

Entertainment

Lorraine Kelly celebrates birthday with celebrity well-wishers

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Man charged after riot police ‘attacked with fireworks and bricks’ in Auchinleck

Man charged after riot police 'attacked with fireworks and bricks'

Former Glasgow pub can become community centre despite flooding risk

Former pub can become community centre despite flooding risk

Two vehicles stolen while defrosting in Bearsden as motorists urged to be vigilant

Two vehicles stolen while defrosting as motorists urged to be vigilant

Council looking to fix leaning fountain 100 years after fault first reported

Council looking to fix leaning fountain 100 years after fault first reported

Police searching for ‘key witness’ who helped teenage girl who was being followed in Ayr

Search for woman who scared off man following 14-year-old girl

Man, 71, dies after fire breaks out at block of flats in Anniesland, Glasgow

Pensioner dies after fire breaks out at block of flats

Five-year-old from South Lanarkshire suffering from cancer helped by Cancer Support UK’s kids kit

'My daughter has cancer - charity's support kits helped during treatment'

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