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Lewis Capaldi fans go wild as he recreates iconic music video for new song The Glasgow-born singer-songwriter released the video for Forget Me on Monday afternoon. After much anticipation from fans, who have not heard new material from the Scottish Beyonce since 2019, the song has not disappointed. The video sees the 25-year-old reenact the instantly recognisable video for Club Tropicana by Wham! Dressed in swimming shorts, Lewis can be seen swimming in a pool, relaxing on a lilo and drinking a tropical cocktail. Fans were loving the homage to George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, with one commenting: “One of…

UCI cycling world championships Glasgow: Dates and venues The city will be the first ever host of the event, which brings together road, mountain and track cycling into one event. It will be held between August 3 and 13 2023, and organisers have now revealed the dates and locations of the various events. Kelvingrove Park will host the BMX flatland and freestyle, with the racing at the Glasgow BMX centre. Track events will naturally be held at the Chris Hoy velodrome, with indoor cycling in the same venue at the Emirates Arena. The official route of the men’s road race, which will…

Scotland’s Home of the Year judge shares snap of baby girl Kate Spiers, a judge on the hit BBC show Scotland’s Home of the Year, has been posting regular updates on her pregnancy journey since first announcing the news in April of this year. Yesterday, the interior design expert shared a photo of her newborn child with her 306,000 Instagram followers saying she and her partner Jordan are ‘smitten’. The post read: “Dahlia James Spiers. “Our girly arrived on the first day of September and we’ve been smitten ever since.” Amongst those wishing the couple congratulations were blogger Zoe Sugg who said: “She’s beautiful!…

Sir Keir Starmer defends taking private jet to Scotland Answering questions from journalists after a speech in Greenock, Sir Keir said: “We did use a private jet because we needed to get very quickly to Scotland from Wales yesterday, and we have to use the most efficient form of transport in the middle of a very, very busy General Election campaign. “We offset the carbon, we always do whenever we use transport in the air.” He added: “We’ve got five weeks to take our argument to the country, I need to get across the country to speak to as many people…

The Last Pearl, Tron Theatre Glasgow review – five stars The world is drowning in this exquisite dive into troubled waters by Ireland’s Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, touring the fourth of a series of devised shows after premiering in Sligo in 2022. It’s there in the stormy seas conjured up by the five people on stage who use shadow puppets, model houses and all manner of impressionistic techniques to make their point without having to hector or harangue. The company’s slow burning artistry does the talking in a way that transcends words. Director Niall Henry’s exquisitely realised construction focuses on…

JK Rowling is right. The battle for women’s rights is far from over THE experiences of an intelligent, articulate and successful woman like JK Rowling make for sorry reading (“Rowling regrets not speaking out sooner on ‘regressive’ gender identity ‘ideology’”, The Herald, May 30). Sadly she is not alone in being subjected to misogynistic abuse as a result of expressing her well-informed and widely-held views in the toxic arena of social media. I felt something close to shame when I read this article and understand the “chronic pain” she has felt because of guilt over not speaking out sooner. I cannot…

Joanna Cherry criticises ‘Stalinist’ leadership of Nicola Sturgeon The comments were made in The National and in a new book of essays by gender critical women. In The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht, published on Thursday, Ms Cherry recounts her sacking from the SNP front bench in 2021. At the time, the then Westminster leader of the group, Ian Blackford, said she had been demoted because of her “unacceptable behaviour.” He never explained what this meant, but his decision came a week after members of Out for Independence, the official LGBT wing of the SNP, criticised Ms Cherry for defending a…

Forres woman Elizabeth Diane Gray dies in A96 Nairn crash Emergency services attended and the woman, who was a passenger in the Dacia, was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with serious injuries where she later died. She has been named as Elizabeth Diane Gray, known as Diane, from the Forres area. The driver of the Dacia, a 79-year-old man, was taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. The van driver, a 57-year-old woman, was uninjured, and she was arrested in connection with a road traffic offence. Police Sergeant Doug Scott of the Road Policing Unit said: “Our thoughts are with Diane’s…

Girl, 9, shot in Hackney drive-by shooting was having dinner with family | UK News A nine-year-old girl who was having dinner with her family is in critical condition after being shot in a Hackney Turkish restaurant yesterday evening. Three other men, aged 26, 37 and 42, remain in hospital for treatment, with one facing life-changing injuries after being shot in Evin Restaurant on the busy high street in Dalston, Hackney. Police were called at about 9.20pm to Kingsland High Street after reports of multiple gunshots fired. The little girl who was shot is not thought to have known the…

For a series about the ‘reality’ of the property market, Buying London massively falls short Cinema rooms; gold-embellished ceilings; castle-like exteriors. These are just some of the typical features the properties for sale in Netflix’s new series, Buying London, pose – a far cry from the mouldy walls, limited space and sky-high prices that characterise so many rental experiences in the capital. With a set-up that attempts to focus on the agents as much as it does the glitzy properties, the series was likely marketed as the English version of the likes of Selling Sunset: there’s the boss at the…