78 m. ago Lotto jackpot joy for Ayr United diehard Paul as he lands club's biggest ever payout

Paul Dougall scooped the massive pot and created a bit of history along the way.

Events

1 hour ago UK weather maps prompt urgent heatwave health alert as six areas set for 30C scorcher

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and Met Office officials have warned NHS services may be stretched and that older and vulnerable people will need to take care in the heat

Society

1 hour ago Shoppers praise Ninja Zerostick Pan set for keeping 'no stick' promise amid £84 price cut

Amazon has slashed the price of Ninja's 5-piece pan set as part of the Prime Day event.

Economics

3 h. ago Ayr United granted licence for alcohol sales pilot at Premier Sports Cup games

The William Hill Championship club has been granted alcohol licences by South Ayrshire Council.

Politics

3 h. ago Sorry, Baby is a smart film about sexual assault and it’s here at just the right time | Adrian Horton

Eva Victor’s intelligent and subtle debut film tells the story of the aftermath of an assault and as the backlash to #MeToo increases, it serves an important purposeAbout 25 minutes into Sorry, Baby, writer-director Eva Victor’s debut feature out this summer, a bad thing happens to Agnes, Victor’s twentysomething academic in a small New England town. The film is forthright and economical with the details; Agnes, an English PhD student, goes to meet her thesis adviser (Louis Cancelmi), with whom she shares a light flirtation and a mutual passion for Virginia Woolf. He shifts the meeting to his house, citing logistics and lavishing praise. Agnes enters at dusk; we linger outside as the shot cuts to dark, signaling hours past. She emerges in silence and hustles to her car, expressionless as she drives away for what feels like an eternity.Back at home, Agnes sits in the bath and tells her best friend Lydie (an excellent Naomi Ackie) what happened in clipped, detached details. He was ins...

Events

4 h. ago Senior Care Facility Resident Seriously Injured In Assault, New London Police Say

Senior Care Facility Resident Seriously Injured In Assault, New London Police Say  Patch

Events

5 h. ago First picture of man stabbed to death in Ayr as police launch murder probe

Mark Blackwood, 42, was found seriously injured on Saturday and later passed away.

Events

5 h. ago Police investigating after unresponsive man found with serious injuries at New London senior care facility

Police investigating after unresponsive man found with serious injuries at New London senior care facility  WFSB

Events

5 h. ago King and French president Macron display entente cordiale as state visit begins

State visits capitalise on the royals’ soft power to strengthen diplomatic ties with allies.

Politics

5 h. ago Ayr United given green light for Somerset Park works which include training complex, gym and new car park

The club has received planning permission for the first phase of its Railway End redevelopment.

Politics

6 h. ago Camp vampires! Frisky throuples! How Stephanie Rothman became queen of the B

The director’s mastery of trashy, low-budget exploitation films like It’s a Bikini World and Group Marriage turned her into a cult icon. Now, aged 88, she’s finding out they’re more relevant than everStephanie Rothman first came across the term “exploitation” in a review of one of her own films. It was 1970, and her second solo-directed feature, The Student Nurses, a small-budget indie about trainees at an inner-city hospital, set against Los Angeles’s bubbling counterculture, was doing well at the US box office. (It eventually made more than $1m from a $150,000 budget.) Rothman was pleased but the review took her aback. It called it an “exploitation film” with “surprising depth”.Fifty-five years on and Rothman is a cult legend who fully embraces the label. “I started out with a very snobbish attitude,” she says on a video call from California. “I was shocked that’s what I was making! But as time went on, I began to appreciate what I was able to do, which was to take elements of pop...

Politics

7 h. ago Police name man killed in Ayr flat disturbance as detectives investigate murder

Mark Blackwood, 42, died following a disturbance at a flat on Glenmuir Place in Ayr on Saturday, July 5.

Events

7 h. ago Government suing PPE Medpro because of ‘buyer’s remorse’, court told

The Department of Health and Social Care wants PPE Medpro to repay more than £120 million over an alleged breach of contract.

Politics

9 h. ago School staff warned care home that resident posed danger to others, inquest told

Melissa Mathieson, 18, was strangled by Jason Conroy at Alexandra House, in Bristol, in 2014.

Events

9 h. ago Ayr nursing home praised for "significant strengths" in its care provision

Airlie House Care Home, in Victoria Park, Ayr, was graded ‘very good’ across three quality indicators - the second highest gradings possible.

Politics

9 h. ago Emma Raducanu’s true behaviour at Wimbledon revealed by other top tennis stars

Emma Raducanu may have seen her Wimbledon journey come to an end on Friday, but the Brit's character behind closed doors has been praised by some of the biggest names in tennis

Politics

10 h. ago Gaza health system overwhelmed by casualties at aid distributions, says Red Cross – Israel

The ICRC said ‘the scale and frequency of these incidents are without precedent’The IDF has issued a new evacuation order for the Khan Younis area in Gaza, instructing Palestinian who live there to head west as the no-go zone expands.Col Avichay Adraee, the military’s Arabic-language spokesperson, wrote on X: “Due to terror activities in the area, the IDF with its maneuvering troops and intensive firepower is expanding actions in your area.”Physiotherapists support nurses, cleaning and dressing wounds and taking vitals. Cleaners now serve as orderlies, carrying stretchers wherever they are needed. Midwives have stepped into palliative care. Continue reading...

Politics

10 h. ago A baby born to a brain dead mother: this is the horror of abortion bans | Moira Donegan

Adriana Smith was legally dead for months, but kept on life support in Atlanta because she was pregnantOn Friday 13 June, a baby was born in an Atlanta hospital to a woman who had been dead for four months. Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old Black nurse and mother, was declared brain dead in February after blood clots formed in her brain. Legally, and by all meaningful measures, she was dead then: the woman who loved her family, laughed with her friends, comforted her son, helped her colleagues and cared for her patients was gone then, and was never coming back. But the state of Georgia, and the administrators of the hospital where she was declared dead, kept her corpse in a state of artificial animation for months. That’s because when Smith went to the hospital in February complaining of a headache, and later became unresponsive, she was about eight weeks pregnant. According to her family, doctors at Emory hospital, in Georgia, told the family that the state’s abortion ban required them ...

Events

10 h. ago Sadiq Khan 'doesn't care about Wimbledon': Mayor is told to 'get a grip' after District line delays spark 'international humiliation' for London

The issues on the District Line have been blamed on signalling failures, while this morning's 'severe delays' were caused by a 'casualty on the track'.

Politics

10 h. ago Forever homes sought for Galloway cats which have been homeless for three months

Cats Protection Stranraer and District say there has been almost no interest in Luna and Alba since they came into their care.

Politics