4 h. ago Glassford Beer and Gin Festival raises £5k for community group

Two live music stages featured a wide range of acts with radio DJ and broadcaster Steve McKenna hosting the marquee and Avondale Radio taking over the village hall stage.

Economics

13 h. ago Gin, Rum & Vodka Festival 2025: £9 tickets now available across 29 UK cities

Sip your way through the UK’s top spirit-tasting festival with tickets now just £9 — from Manchester to Edinburgh, this gin-fuelled day out is shaking things up

Economics

55 h. ago Food bank hero thanks East Kilbride community for support after fireball blaze

Rallying round, colleagues, volunteers and members of the East Kilbride community have so far raised an incredible £1835 and presented Annmarie with a cheque for £500 when she returned to work to help the needy.

Events

7 d. ago Edinburgh students raise funds for Myanmar earthquake children

One month since the earthquake that killed thousands, students at Edinburgh Napier University have launched an appeal to raise money to families and children still at huge risk of hunger, illness, and floods as they live outdoors in Myanmar monsoon season.

Society

8 d. ago King Charles opens up about ‘daunting and frightening’ experience of cancer in personal message

Charles and Camilla host Buckingham Palace reception in celebration of community-based initiatives raising awareness about cancer and supporting those living with the disease

Politics

8 d. ago Could you sign up to walk for bereaved kids this National Walking Month?

As May marks National Walking Month, the UK’s first children and young people’s bereavement charity Winston’s Wish is inviting participants to get involved and sign up to a sponsored walk to raise awareness of the charity and its services in the local community.

Politics

1 week ago Scots cancer tot to get treatment abroad as locals rally round to raise cash

The parents of a tot with four cancer have been left 'amazed' after the community raised money for potentially life-saving treatment abroad.

Economics

2 w. ago Goldbeak review – kids cartoon sends baby eagle to live in a chicken coop

Low-budget visuals drain the charm from this animated tale strangely reminiscent of Jonathan Livingston SeagullBirds of a feather flock together, unless you’re an eagle being raised in a community of chickens, per this animated family adventure. Orphaned in a plane crash (yes, eagles use planes), young Goldbeak is from a prominent political family and, naturally enough, he comes to realise he doesn’t exactly fit in with the hens and roosters with whom he is living. Notably, chickens are not known for their prowess at flying, and so he finds his literal wings metaphorically clipped, though he is desperate to soar above his contemporaries.Thematically, this is vaguely reminiscent of 1970s publishing hit Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a short allegorical fable about a frustrated gull who refuses to accept the limitations of his community and yearns to go beyond the limits of what seems possible. Here, though, Goldbeak’s exceptionalism is firmly rooted in biology, so maybe he’s more like ...

Politics

3 w. ago Sickened community raise £2k for schoolgirl dragged unconscious through park after 'gang attack'

Hope Lyden, 13, was beaten unconscious by a group of youths not known to her at Boden Boo in Erskine at the weekend.

Events