The volunteer gardening group behind a memorial statue to honour child miners, have been won a prestigious award. Danderhall and District Guerrilla Gardeners formed during lockdown after it united against the use of pesticides by Midlothian Council. In its first...

Christian Pulisic fired the United States into the last 16 of the World Cup with a 1-0 win over Iran at Al Thumama Stadium in Qatar. The Chelsea striker grabbed the only goal of the game in the 38th minute...

A troupe of elves and a giant snow globe are all set to appear at Stratherrick’s Winter Wonderland next week. Organisers say the event will be “bigger and better” than ever, with people from communities including Whitebridge, Gorthleck and Foyers...

Boxes containing items to help vulnerable people stay warm are set to be handed out during the winter period in Inverclyde. Packages with products such as hats, scarves, gloves, socks, tea and coffee will be distributed to people in need...

Marcus Rashford’s brilliant brace helped England reach the knockout phase as group winners and brought Wales’ first World Cup appearance since 1958 to an end. Welsh hopes of progressing were hanging by a thread heading into a Group B finale...

Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke said it is “outrageous” only 16% of people working in the creative industry come from a working class background. The actress, best known for playing Daenerys Targaryen, was speaking as patron of arts charity...

A High Court judge is due to rule on whether to delay the proposed sale of collapsed energy company Bulb to Octopus Energy following new legal challenges from rival suppliers. A hearing on Tuesday was told that a “flutter” of judicial review...

Edinburgh Airport I set for a £1.6m redevelopment of its pickup and drop off area. Bosses say the redevelopment will improve passenger experiences at the airport with a redesign of the multi-storey car park located on the ground floor of...

An abandoned Edinburgh lap dancing bar is set to re-open as the capital’s newest comedy club after the council approved a request to serve alcohol at the premises earlier than was previously allowed. Dubbed "one of Edinburgh’s premier gentlemen’s clubs" before...

The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow has recorded the worst A&E waiting times figures on record, with nearly two-thirds of patients waiting more than four hours to be seen. Just 35.1% of attendees were dealt with within the target...

Cody Gakpo enhanced his growing reputation after becoming the first Netherlands player to score in each of his first three World Cup matches in a 2-0 victory over hosts Qatar. The 23-year-old forward entered the tournament as one of the...

Kalidou Koulibaly scored a second-half winner as Senegal beat Ecuador 2-1 at the Khalifa International Stadium to finish second in Group A and book their place in the last 16 of the World Cup. Watford forward Ismaila Sarr kept his...

Police officers in Edinburgh have caught an internationally wanted man after stopping a Peugeot 107 during a routine road stop. The blue car was pulled over next to Easter Road where the driver was found to have no licence or...

A man has been charged in connection with a crash and subsequent "disturbance" that left another in hospital. The 29-year-old was arrested over the incident in the Elm Drive area of Johnstone on October 27. Emergency crews had rushed to...

The Royal College of Nursing is to consult members working in the NHS in Scotland on the Government’s latest revised NHS pay offer. The latest revised pay offer is the third this year that would be a real-terms pay cut...

After months of very unsettled, very wet and very mild weather, things are about to change as we head into December. We had the wettest October on record for Renfrewshire and the Western Isles, November brought extreme rainfall and flooding...

A luxury waterfront house sitting under the Forth Bridge has gone on sale for just shy of £1m. The four-bedroom home on the bank of the River Forth has unique views from beneath one of Scotland's most iconic landmarks. The...

Six men and a teenager have been arrested in connection with serious violence in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire. Officers were first called to a report of a disturbance in Caldercruix Road, Airdrie, around 3.30pm on November 4. The second incident occurred...

Martin Lewis has told MPs that members of the Government "cast aspersions" over his trustworthiness due to his public remarks not aligning with the interests of the candidate they were promoting to become their party leader. The broadcaster, who founded...

A blunder at a lab which saw thousands of positive Covid-19 cases reported as negative could have led to the deaths of 20 people, according to new estimates. The error at the Wolverhampton lab meant that around 39,000 PCR tests...

Former Celtic star Nir Bitton was caught driving at almost double the speed limit. The 31-year-old committed the crime on Glasgow’s M80 near junction two on April 7, 2019. The Maccabi Tel-Aviv midfielder, formerly of the city’s Kelvinbridge, was clocked going at...

Tributes have been paid to the original Tennent's "lager lovely" following her death at the age of 84. Venetia Stevenson was once labelled "the most photogenic woman in the world", appeared in dozens of Hollywood films, was briefly mother-in-law to...

A record proportion of women giving birth last year were either overweight or obese, new figures have shown. National Records of Scotland recorded a total of 48,430 live births across Scotland in 2021-22. But of those woman giving birth, just...

Lessons must be learned after a low response to the 2022 Scottish census led to increased costs and work, a new report has said. The Section 22 report, by the country's Auditor General, found that lessons learned from the census...

Peterhead have appointed former Aberdeen, Rangers and Leeds defender David Robertson as their new manager. The 54-year-old, whose five-year reign in charge of Indian club Real Kashmir came to an end in September, takes the reins from Jim McInally, who...

A teenager has been arrested and charged following a fire at a 138-year-old Dumfries landmark. The historic former convent on Corbelly Hill, near the town’s Maxwell Street, was engulfed in flames in the early hours of August 9. The property...

A top Qatari official involved in the country’s World Cup organisation has put the number of worker deaths for the tournament “between 400 and 500” for the first time, a drastically higher number than any other previously offered by Doha....

Hibernian and Australia forward Martin Boyle said he may have had his undetected knee injury for as long as seven years before it was finally discovered on the eve of the World Cup. The 29-year-old had to withdraw from the...

Emergency department waiting times at Scotland's largest children's hospital have hit a record high, figures show. At the Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow, 71.5% of attendances were seen and admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours - the worst figures...

A motorcyclist has died following a "head on" collision with a car in Fife. Emergency services were called to the scene near Kingskettle at around 4.35pm on Monday. A Honda motorbike and a grey Volkswagen Golf were involved in the...

Scotland's justice secretary has warned that official figures on domestic abuse incidents are "only the tip of the iceberg" on the extent of violence against women and girls. It comes after the country's chief statistician revealed that 64,807 incidents of...

Rangers face having to pay out £1.6m over their withdrawal from the Sydney Super Cup tournament amid a fan backlash. Reports from Australia state that organisers have accused the club of breaking a binding agreement to take part, costing them...

James McAvoy has said he was left "scunnered" by racial and sexually explicit abuse that was hurled at his female co-stars in Glasgow. The Scottish actor claimed that during a two-week stint of Cyrano de Bergerac in the city, most...

Fans have been given a first look at Idris Elba in the upcoming Luther movie ahead of its release next year. Idris Elba has portrayed DCI John Luther in the BBC crime thriller series since its launch in 2010, with...

EasyJet bosses have insisted cash-strapped customers will not ditch their overseas holidays in the face of soaring costs. The budget airline has reported sharply narrowed annual losses after a record summer performance. It reported underlying pre-tax losses of £178m for...

Energy firm Ovo has joined a scheme which could see its customers paid to reduce their electricity use at key times. The National Grid Electricity System Operator launched the scheme earlier this month. The service has been tested twice in...

Taxpayers' money was "squandered on a reckless and foolish scale" in the nationalisation of Ferguson Marine, Jim McColl has claimed. The billionaire has been locked in a war of words with the Scottish Government as MSPs probe the decision to...

Everything you need to know if you're following the World Cup from home. Here's your daily round-up of results, fixtures and memorable moments. Monday's results Cameroon 3-3 Serbia https://news.stv.tv/sport/cameroon-battle-to-thrilling-six-goal-draw-against-serbia South Korea 2-3 Ghana https://news.stv.tv/sport/ghana-breathe-life-into-world-cup-campaign-with-thrilling-win-over-south-korea Brazil 1-0 Switzerland https://news.stv.tv/sport/casemiro-nets-late-winner-against-switzerland-as-brazil-advance-at-world-cup Portugal 2-0...

There was no word of additional protests against strict government anti-pandemic measures on Tuesday in Beijing, with police out in force and temperatures well below freezing. Shanghai, Nanjing and other cities where online calls to gather had been issued were...

Teachers at a high school in Glasgow are taking strike action after concerns were raised over violent and abusive behaviour by pupils. Members of the NASUWT teachers' union at Bannerman High School will walk out on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday....

The clock is ticking for Scotland’s “crisis-hit” childminding sector, as more than a third of carers have left the profession in just eight years. The stark warning comes from a leading organisation who say the sector is in crisis with...

A rescued turkey winds up "at the table, not on it" in a new Christmas advert urging Scots to go vegan. Launched by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the two-minute clip aims to "open viewers' eyes to...

A man with a terminal brain tumour is preparing to spend his "last Christmas" with his wife. It took two years and three MRI scans before Dan Potts was diagnosed with a glioblastoma in December 2021. He started getting headaches...

Proxy voting should be introduced at the Scottish Parliament to ensure that MSPs who are unable to physically attend can still take part, it has been suggested. A report published by Holyrood's Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee has called...

An investment programme aimed at helping social landlords to build more affordable housing has been reopened. The Charitable Bond programme was established in response to demand from housing associations for better access to appropriate finances. It provides unsecured loans for...