6 d. ago BBC Eurovision Song Contest viewers all say same thing minutes into 2025 Grand Final

Eurovision hosts Hazel Brugger, Michelle Hunziker and Sandra Studer appeared in a pre-recorded skit before appearing on stage and it didn't go down well with BBC viewers

Culture

8 d. ago Labour 'committed' to reducing energy bills for Scots but savings 'won't happen overnight'

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Shanks told the Record he was working "every single day" to lessen the financial burden of paying for domestic gas and electricity.

Economics

8 d. ago Roving reflections in the best Literary Fiction out now: ABSENCE by Issa Quincy, MUCKLE FLUGGA by Michael Pedersen, THE BOOK OF RECORDS by Madeleine Thien

Anthony Cummins reviews the best Literary Fiction out now.

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1 week ago Imprisoned Suge Knight says Trump will pardon Diddy if convicted in sex trafficking case: ‘Puffy’s gonna be alright’

Suge Knight reasoned that President Donald Trump will pardon Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs because he commuted the sentence of his Death Row Records co-founder, Michael Harris, in 2021

Events

1 week ago Microsoft to ax thousands of workers... despite soaring profits and record stock price

The company is slashing 3 percent of its global workforce - a move that will affect thousands of employees across all departments and regions.

Economics

3 w. ago Government told to ‘hang head in shame’ after Rod Stewart pays for child’s autism diagnosis

The musician's action follows a Daily Record report highlighting the plight of Iain Gregori, whose father, Michael, repeatedly sought an autism diagnosis for his son

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3 w. ago ‘Chipmunks were obsessed with my mics’: the man who recorded a tree for a year

Joshua Bonnetta spent 8,760 hours recording a pine – then honed it down into a four-hour album full of creatures, cracking branches and quite possibly the sound of leaves growingWhat does a landscape sound like when it’s not being listened to? This philosophical question was a catalyst for film-maker and artist Joshua Bonnetta, who has distilled a year of recordings from a single tree in upstate New York – that’s 8,760 hours – into a four-hour album, The Pines. As Robert Macfarlane writes in his accompanying essay, The Pines is a reminder of the natural world’s “sheer, miraculous busyness”, its “froth of signals and noise”. It is rich with poetic meaning, and resonant amid the climate emergency.“It started as a personal thing,” Bonnetta explains from his studio in Munich, where he relocated from the US in 2022. For over 20 years he has made sonic records of places as private mementos, but recent experiments with long-form field recording led him to push himself “to document this pla...

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3 w. ago Rugby legend Kevin Sinfield records special video of support for Dumfries father and son's marathon challenge

Kevin has recorded a special video for Michael and Andrew Cole, who are taking on the Edinburgh Marathon for MND Scotland.

Sport

3 w. ago Most finishers and fastest traffic cone among confirmed London Marathon records

Michael Wiggins achieved the Guinness World Records title for the fastest marathon dressed as a traffic cone.

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4 w. ago 'I’ve visited nearly every country – 11 underrated destinations blew me away'

On track to create a World Record for the fastest person to visit every country on Earth, Michael Zervos has travelled to over 165 of the 195 countries that exist on Earth — and he’s curated a list of the best ones.

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