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.

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

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

1 week 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'

3 weeks ago

Glasgow City Mission helps homeless people into accommodation

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

1 month ago

Islay Dog Rescue Centre in Ayrshire sees people choosing between feeding pet dogs and children

'People are choosing between feeding their dogs or their children'

2 months ago

Glasgow boy, six, has new heart at top of Christmas list after two years waiting for transplant

Six-year-old boy has new heart at top of Christmas list

2 months ago

Parents say school strikes in Scotland are ‘leaving children with additional needs behind’

Scotland

School strikes are 'leaving children with additional needs behind'

2 months ago

Glasgow Print Studio holds 50th anniversary exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Classics and rare works on show as Print Studio marks 50 years

2 months ago

Rough sleeping could increase as cost of living crisis deepens warns charity

Fears rough sleeping could increase as cost of living crisis deepens

3 months ago

Traders walk out at The Lochs Shopping Centre in Easterhouse in dispute with landlord City Property

Shopping centre walkout as 'heating not being turned on'

3 months ago

Royal Mail: Islay residents hit by severe delays as postal workers quit over workload

Highlands & Islands

Long delays and in-person pick-ups as Royal Mail posties quit

3 months ago

Ayrshire schoolboy ‘scared to go out alone’ after being attacked by Rottweiler in street

Schoolboy 'scared to go out alone' after Rottweiler attack in street

3 months ago

Super Sponsor scheme for Ukrainian refugees in Scotland ‘will not be restarted’, MSP Neil Gray confirms

Politics

Super Sponsor scheme for Ukrainian refugees 'will not be restarted'

3 months ago

Ukrainian refugees allowed to stay in Perthshire hotel after government U-turn

North East & Tayside

Ukrainian refugees allowed to stay in hotel after government U-turn

3 months ago

Glasgow University students protest ‘ridiculously slow’ action on housing

University students protest 'ridiculously slow' action on housing

3 months ago

‘World’s Best School’ award for Scots secondary Dunoon Grammar for outstanding community collaboration

'Outstanding' Scots school voted 'best in the world'

Updated 3 months ago

Revenues hit as Glasgow fish and chip shop Blue Lagoon battered by train strikes and energy crisis

Revenues hit as Blue Lagoon battered by train strikes and energy crisis

4 months ago

University of Glasgow students placed in emergency accommodation amid housing crisis

Students placed in emergency accommodation amid housing crisis

4 months ago

Glasgow one-bed flat at £900 per month draws 500 applications overnight amid student housing crisis

More than 500 students apply to live in one-bed flat for £900 per month

4 months ago

UK Government emergency energy support package for businesses ‘a drop in the ocean,’ Scottish firm warns

Scotland

Emergency energy support package for businesses 'drop in the ocean'

4 months ago

Food allergy trial coming to Scotland could be ‘revolutionary’ for sufferers

'If I eat something without reading the label, I could go into shock'

5 months ago

Cancer patient ‘forced to eat out of date and mouldy food’ after being hit by £4,000 SSE energy bill

Cancer patient hit with £4,000 energy bill 'forced to eat mouldy food'

5 months ago

Protest to take place at Ofgem offices in Glasgow over price cap hike

Scotland

Protesters surround Ofgem's Scottish headquarters over price cap hike

5 months ago

Glasgow taxi driver’s bid to bring family to Scotland from Taliban rule in Afghanistan ‘ignored’ by Home Office

'We were nearly killed by the Taliban but now my family is stranded'

5 months ago

Drug deaths: Sister blasts ‘broken’ system and ‘party girl’ reveals how she turned her life around

Drug deaths: ‘Broken’ system and how ‘party girl’ turned life around

6 months ago

Loch Lomond rescue crews want Balloch move to end need for police escorts

Insight

Loch Lomond rescue crews want move to end need for police escorts

Vanessa Taaffe

Record number of Scottish students from poorer backgrounds apply for university

Scotland

Record number of students from poorer backgrounds apply for university

7 months ago

Edinburgh woman Samantha Hindle describes life with transvaginal mesh implant as ‘hell’ as deal announced with US clinic

Edinburgh & East

Woman describes life with mesh implant as 'living hell'

7 months ago

Angus Robertson hits back at opposition parties after suspension of SNP MP Patrick Grady

Politics

Robertson hits back at opposition parties after suspension of SNP MP

7 months ago

Waverley Paddle Steamer back at sea 75 years after maiden voyage

Waverley Paddle Steamer back at sea 75 years after maiden voyage

7 months ago

Ukrainian refugee family with disabled teenager settle into new life in Lanarkshire, Scotland

From Lviv to Lanark: Ukrainian family settle into new life

8 months ago

Today's Top Stories

Scottish Water warn traffic restrictions in place for two weeks after water main burst in Milngavie

Fortnight of traffic restrictions after 250,000 left without water

Scottish actor Alan Cumming returns OBE over ‘toxicity’ of British Empire and role of the monarchy

Entertainment

Alan Cumming returns OBE over 'toxicity' of British Empire

Glasgow city centre Broomielaw road closed after cyclist hit by lorry in crash

City centre road closed after cyclist hit by lorry in crash

Trans woman rapist Isla Bryson ‘enrolled in beauty college course after being charged with sex attacks’

Exclusive

Trans rapist 'enrolled in beauty college course after sex attacks'

Acts added to Glasgow Green TRNSMT 2023 festival line up including Joesef, The View, Mimi Webb and Pale Waves

Entertainment

TRNSMT announce 50 acts added to summer music festival line up

Claims Banff Academy pupils are identifying as cats branded ‘false rumours’ by Aberdeenshire Council

North East & Tayside

Claims pupils identifying as cats at school branded 'false rumours'

Aldi: Permission granted for controversial £6.4m supermarket in Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway

Supermarket row ends as permission given for new £6.4m Aldi

Latest in Glasgow & West

Car crash on M77 at Silverburn in Glasgow causes rush hour traffic jam

Car crash on M77 at Silverburn causes rush hour traffic jam

CalMac boss Robbie Drummond vows to find best system for building new ferries

CalMac boss vows to find best system for building new ferries

Ex-artist claims medical waste ‘piled up’ at Rock and Roll tattoo parlour in Glasgow

Clinical waste 'piled up' at tattoo parlour as ex-artist slams shop

Lanarkshire care worker took £825 in bank transfers from ‘vulnerable’ patient then asked for more money

Care worker took £825 from 'vulnerable' patient then asked for more

Jewellery and cash worth £5,000 stolen during house break-in on Strathaven Road in Hamilton

Jewellery and cash worth £5,000 stolen from house during break in

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Lewis Capaldi reaches out to young fan after emotional reaction at Glasgow OVO Hydro concert goes viral

Entertainment

Lewis Capaldi reacts to viral clip of emotional young fan at Hydro gig

Sturgeon: Trans rapist Isla Bryson will not serve sentence at Cornton Vale

Scotland

Trans rapist Isla Bryson will not serve sentence at Cornton Vale

Prosecutors to consider joint police and safety regulator investigation into ScotRail Stonehaven crash

North East & Tayside

Prosecutors to consider report into fatal Stonehaven rail crash

Scotland Tonight: Timex Dundee strike recalled by sacked workers 30 years on

North East & Tayside

'Pushed aside as our jobs were taken' - 30 years since Timex strike

Ex-prison governor says trans rapist Isla Bryson should not be in prison at all-female Cornton Vale

Scotland

Ex-prison governor says trans woman rapist should not be in female jail

Scotland Tonight: Author Peter May imagines Glasgow ravaged by climate change and airport gone

Entertainment

Glasgow's under water and the airport has gone - only a story?

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Scotland Tonight: Author Peter May imagines Glasgow ravaged by climate change and airport gone

Entertainment

Glasgow's under water and the airport has gone - only a story?

Glasgow and Edinburgh cancer centres will share £4m to develop new treatments

‘No trace’ of cancer in patient’s body after experimental treatment

Tennent’s Sixes: Remembering when fans packed the SECC in Glasgow for football extravaganza

Football

'Fans and players loved it' - remembering the Tennent's Sixes