Dayna Bass

A year after workmen first smashed into Jimmy Savile's remote Highland lair, the hated cottage remains standing in Glencoe, now a burned-out, graffiti-covered wreck that locals say is worse than ever. The pink-painted ruin of Allt-na-Reigh, where the serial predator abused at least five victims, has become a magnet for vandals and arsonists since demolition mysteriously stopped just days after it started in February 2025. Locals are furious. They believed the nightmare was finally ending when diggers arrived exactly one year ago. Instead, the site has been left open to the elements and to every firebug and spray-can idiot who makes…

Keir Starmer is fighting for survival after a Scottish Labour MP delivered a devastating verdict on his leadership. Brian Leishman claimed the Prime Minister looks like a "boxer on his last legs" and should ask himself if he still has the strength to go on, as the Peter Mandelson Jeffrey Epstein scandal threatens to bring the government down. The explosive intervention comes just 24 hours after Morgan McSweeney quit as Starmer's chief of staff and follows fresh revelations that Mandelson stayed in touch with the convicted paedophile Epstein for years after 2008. Leishman Turns on Starmer in Brutal Private Message…

Emirates just made Scotland far easier to reach. Starting this summer, the Dubai-based giant will fly twice a day between Dubai and Glasgow, doubling seats and giving travellers from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Australia new flexibility they’ve never had before. For the first time, you can leave Dubai in the morning or evening and still land in Scotland the same day. Exact Schedule and Aircraft Details The new flight EK029 will depart Dubai at 09:55 and land in Glasgow at 14:45 local time. The return leg, EK030, leaves Glasgow at 17:10 and arrives back in Dubai at 05:35…

Scotland's men's cricket team will travel to the 2026 ICC Men's T20 World Cup with a new principal partner after Skyscanner stepped in with a last-minute sponsorship deal that has rescued the team's preparations. The Edinburgh-based travel search giant has agreed a multi-year partnership with Cricket Scotland that will see its logo feature prominently on the front of the national team's playing shirts during the tournament co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka next February. The deal ends months of uncertainty for Scottish cricket's governing body, which had struggled to secure commercial backing after qualifying for their second successive T20 World…

Royal Bank of Scotland has fired the starting gun on a fresh £10 billion lending drive to Britain's social housing sector by the end of 2028, after smashing its previous target a full year early. The new pledge, revealed today, pushes the bank's total support for affordable homes past £35 billion since 2018 in what housing leaders are calling the biggest single commitment ever made by a UK bank to the sector. Why This Matters Right Now Britain's social housing waiting lists stand at 1.3 million households. One in every eight children grows up in temporary accommodation. Rents in the…

Scotland has stormed ahead of every other UK region in 2025, with new figures showing a massive surge in entrepreneurs launching businesses despite the gloomy national mood. The British Business Bank’s Start Up Loans scheme recorded a 15.1% year-on-year increase in loans handed out across Scotland last year, the strongest regional growth in the entire United Kingdom. Scots Borrow Bigger and Back More Women Scottish founders didn’t just apply for more loans, they asked for bigger ones too. The average loan size north of the border came in roughly £1,000 higher than the UK average, hinting that many new Scottish ventures are more ambitious…

EDINBURGH – Scottish Rugby confirmed today that the Guinness Women’s Six Nations match between Scotland and England on Saturday 18 April 2026 at Scottish Gas Murrayfield will become the best-attended standalone women’s sporting event ever held in Scotland. The news has sent a wave of emotion through the Scotland Women squad. Players who have fought for years to grow the game at home say they feel overwhelming pride that their team will be the one to break the barrier. Full-back Chloe Rollie could barely contain her excitement. “To hear that this game will break the national attendance record in women’s sport,…

North Lanarkshire is about to become one of the world's hottest AI hubs after the UK government named it Britain's first official AI Growth Zone, triggering a flood of private investment led by US giant CoreWeave and Scottish partner DataVita. The £1.5bn project will create 800 direct high-paying AI jobs and over 3,400 total roles while building a gigantic 500MW specialist AI cloud that runs entirely on green Scottish power. CoreWeave Lands in Scotland with Monster Datacentre Plan CoreWeave, the Nvidia-backed company now valued at over $23bn after its latest funding round, has chosen Lanarkshire for its first major European…

More than 360,000 Scots now live with diabetes, yet the care you get still depends on your postcode. Ahead of the 2026 Holyrood election, Diabetes Scotland has fired a warning shot with its hard-hitting manifesto "Care, Consistency, Choice", demanding the next government finally delivers fair, modern diabetes care for every single person. The charity says Scotland is sleepwalking toward a £1.5 billion annual diabetes bill by 2035 unless the next government acts fast. Right now, people in deprived areas are missing vital checks and struggling to get life-changing technology that others take for granted. "Where you live should not decide…

Scotland's potato growers, agronomists, and seed experts have marked their calendars. Potatoes in Practice, the UK's largest outdoor potato event, is back on Thursday 13 August 2026 at the James Hutton Institute's Balruddery Farm near Dundee, with a laser-sharp focus on future-proofing an industry facing its toughest challenges in decades. Future Proofing Theme Hits Home as Pressure Mounts This year's theme could not be more urgent. Extreme weather, rising input costs, potato cyst nematode (PCN) pressure, and tightening environmental rules are squeezing margins across Britain. "We are at a turning point," says Jonathan Snape, head of the National Potato Innovation Centre…