29 h. ago Scottish Zoo celebrates summer baby boom with adorable new arrivals

Tiny Parma wallaby joeys have begun peeking out from their mothers’ pouches.

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3 d. ago JD Twitch of Scottish DJ duo Optimo diagnosed with untreatable brain tumour

DJ and producer, real name Keith McIvor, says health has ‘declined very rapidly over just a few weeks’JD Twitch, one half of the celebrated Scottish DJ and production duo Optimo, has been diagnosed with a brain tumour which he has been told is untreatable.The musician, real name Keith McIvor, announced the news in a post on Instagram. He said: “My symptoms weren’t immediately diagnosed, and my health declined very rapidly over just a few weeks. Because of how rapidly everything progressed I haven’t been able to share this news personally with everyone I care about so this feels the clearest and kindest way to let you know what’s happening.” Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Paddleboard tragedy teen's school to celebrate his life on last day of term

Auchmuty High School has said the day will allow students and staff to "share stories, laugh, cry and support each other".

Culture

4 d. ago Hamilton hair stylists celebrate being a cut above at Scottish Salon Awards

Mokha Ladies Hair Design were named Hair Salon Team of the Year.

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5 d. ago Singer, 11, launches Busk Stop for musicians to perform in shopping centre

Rachel Ronnie was the first to perform at the dedicated space within the Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow.

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5 d. ago Author Liam McIlvanney longlisted for book prize named after his father

The winner of the McIlvanney Prize will be announced at the Bloody Scotland crimewriting festival in September.

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6 d. ago Nile Rodgers and Chic at Glastonbury review – pop’s most reliable band bring the party to the Pyramid

Pyramid stageWhile you might quibble that Chic’s set has become more reliable than revolutionary, you can’t argue with the effects of the greatest pop music ever made on the crowdSunday at 6pm is a point in the Glastonbury experience what you really need is something dependable. You are sunburnt. The heat is still brutal. You are exhausted. The state of the toilets is unspeakable, and you crave a certain straightforward reliability. And, despite his attempts to reboot the Chic brand with a new album a few years back and a handful of fresh production gigs, Nile Rodgers seems largely content to see out his days in the business of straightforward reliability, simply touring the world playing his old songs. In fairness, if you’d written the catalogue of material he has, you might be inclined to ensure people don’t forget about it.The initial shock you may have felt at seeing a reconstituted version of the greatest disco band of all playing Glastonbury’s West Holts stage in 2013 has long...

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7 d. ago Sing along with the common people: Saturday at Glastonbury with Raye, Pulp and pop punters – photo essay

Raye wowed with her old-Hollywood glamour, Pulp did 90s nostalgia at its best and everyone tried to hide from the heat – see the best Guardian photography from a big SaturdayThe sun hit hard on Saturday until late afternoon, and proved too much for some people.Festivalgoers struggle in the heat by the Other stage. Photographs: Alicia Canter Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Glastonbury's Welsh language pop star who is playing alongside Charli XCX and The 1975 after catching the eye

Cardiff's Mali Haf will play the BBC Introducing Stage

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8 d. ago Lewis Capaldi supported by celebrity friends after emotional Glastonbury return

Lewis Capaldi's emotional surprise return to Glastonbury saw the Scottish singer receive an influx of support from the celebrity world two years on from his last performance

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9 d. ago Pop star Lydia Night on leaving The Regrettes and going solo: ‘Being messy is excused

From teenage punk prodigy to solo alt-pop risk-taker, the former Regrettes frontwoman is embracing uncertainty, romantic chaos and creative reinvention. She talks to Hannah Ewens about interpersonal band drama, cosplaying being a pop star and her debut album ‘Parody of Pleasure’

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9 d. ago Neilston FC celebrated in Scottish Parliament for West of Scotland League title success

Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, recently visited Brig O'Lea to present a Holyrood motion celebrating the club's triumph.

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9 d. ago Pop star Lydia Night on leaving The Regrettes and going solo: ‘I wanted to walk away rather than flog a dead horse’

From teenage punk prodigy to solo alt-pop risk-taker, the former Regrettes frontwoman is embracing uncertainty, romantic chaos and creative reinvention. She talks to Hannah Ewens about interpersonal band drama, cosplaying being a pop star and her debut album ‘Parody of Pleasure’

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9 d. ago Ibrox disaster survivor celebrates 91st birthday with Rangers legends

Rangers legends visited Thomas Daniels - an Ibrox disaster survivor - in hospital to celebrate his 91st birthday.

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1 week ago Leith exhibition to celebrate Scottish surfing and surf photography

A new exhibition will celebrate both the skills of Scotland’s surfers and talents of the photographers who capture their exploits, writes Margaret Neighbour

Culture

1 week ago Pure pop perfection in the pouring rain as Dua Lipa dazzles fans at Liverpool Anfield

The 29-year-old's mesmerising two-hour show brought rain-soaked euphoria to the football ground

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1 week ago ‘Pop music can be so scared to offend’: Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso, the Argentine duo subverting machismo

After going viral with their Tiny Desk concert, the impish pair are heading to Glastonbury. They explain their ‘no shame, no fear’ approach – and their ridiculous muscle suitsOver impeccable jazz-funk arrangements and Latin percussion, a man in a furry blue trapper hat raps like he’s inhaled a Benson & Hedges multipack, while his partner brings lip-curling, hair-twirling attitude to his own lyrical delivery. This is Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso’s Tiny Desk Concert, an online performance that turned the two Argentine vocalists into global sensations almost overnight after it came out last October. It has now racked up 36m views and Rolling Stone has called them “the future of music”.Some eyebrows were raised, though, by the English translations of their lyrics: crude, daft, often hilarious tales of parties, sex and girls – even, accidentally, goes one punchline, the same one. “We’re always having fun and trying to confuse people,” Amoroso explains on a video call from Madrid, during ...

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2 w. ago Celebrities and rugby stars complete cycle for MND research in Dublin

The 555-mile cycle set off from Belfast on Sunday in memory of the late Scottish rugby star Doddie Weir.

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2 w. ago Add to playlist: James K’s downtempo dream pop and the week’s best new tracks

Right on time for the return of the chill out era, the New York producer traces a hypnotic path on an album that bobs along on sleepy breakbeats and angelic atmosphericsFrom New YorkRecommended if you like Caroline Polachek, Voice Actor, Vegyn Up next New album Friend released via AD 93 on 5 SeptemberPull up your beanbag, light a lava lamp and crack open the Vicks VapoRub: downtempo is back. New compilation Telepathic Fish documents the 90s south London ambient night; Logic1000’s latest DJ-Kicks mix would barely register on an ECG; there’s none more languid than even the summer’s flagship pop album, Addison by Addison Rae. New York producer and musician James K has been dabbling in trip-hop – and various shades of experimental pop and club music – for more than a decade, but nonetheless, her new album, Friend, arrives right on time for summer’s wind down. (What is autumn if not the chill out room to escape the year’s most hectic season?) Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Deacon blue keyboard player James Prime dies after short battle with cancer

The band had disclosed last week that the 64-year-old was seriously ill.

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