- Firms urged to use Scottish produce
- Parliament to see plans for police
- Funding for social community group
- Stabbing prompts murder inquiry
- Top prosecutor meets Libyan PM
- Jewellery 'definitely in bathroom'
- 14-year-old charged after boy death
- Scotland backs minimum alcohol cost
- Yes-to-independence campaign begins
- Police car involved in road crash
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Izzard calls off run challenge
Eddie Izzard has had to abandon his gruelling challenge to run a marathon each day for 27 days in South Africa due to “medical complications”.
Sickness sidelines Sir Elton once again
SIR Elton John is in hospital with a respiratory infection and has cancelled three nights of performances in Las Vegas at the weekend.
Rapper in court over garage bust–up
N-Dubz rapper Dappy has appeared in court charged over his alleged role in a fight at a petrol station that left three men with facial injuries.
Elton John hospitalised with respiratory infection
ELTON John has been forced to cancel several scheduled performances after being admitted to hospital with a respiratory infection.
Top five celebrity stories of the week
Celebrity shenanigans this week include altercations at the airport and some rather silly phonecalls
Interview: Morag Macpherson, textile designer
FOR a designer inspired by the world around her – travels to Japan, Cambodia, Morocco, the US – it should be no surprise to discover that Morag Macpherson’s most important commission to date is from Manhattan's newest, chicest destination hotel.
Interview: Oliver Shute, chef and food entrepreneur
Oliver Shute is putting Bambi and Thumper back on our dining tables, finds Janet Christie
Visit to Sierra Leone charity project hailed as an ‘inspiration’ by model
Model Tali Lennox has hailed a charity visit to Sierra Leone as an “inspiration”.
1 commentJackson’s costumes go on one final tour
Michael Jackson’s spangled gloves, sparkly jackets and stage costumes are going on a world tour before being sold.
Interview: Geoffrey Beattie, author of ‘Chasing Lost Times: A Father and Son Reconciled Through Running’
THERE is a story in Geoffrey Beattie’s new book that makes my blood go cold. It tells of how he and his young family had moved into a house in the middle of nowhere, on the moors outside Sheffield.
Interview: Ken Loach, director of The Angels’ Share
KEN Loach’s new film, The Angels’ Share, is about being given a chance in life. it’s a subject close to the veteran director’s heart, and it’s also pretty important to the movie’s unknown Scottish star
1 commentInterview: Frances Barber, actress
THIS is how it works in the 21st century: stepping into Frances Barber’s Clerkenwell loft feels like a reunion with an old pal, though it’s our first physical encounter.
The Voice talent show hit by vomiting bug
A VIRUS has hit the contestants of BBC1 talent show The Voice and is threatening to damage their hopes of winning the top prize.
In pictures: Celebrities honour Prada and Schiaparelli at Met Ball video
Commonly known as the Met Ball, the Costume Institute Gala never fails to deliver fashion’s biggest event of the year.
Bloody art goes up for auction
Artwork by musician Pete Doherty – which includes pieces created with his blood – is expected to raise tens of thousands of pounds at auction.
Simon Cowell ‘feels restless with ITV bosses’
Simon Cowell feels “restless” with ITV, while top executives at the broadcaster resent the TV mogul’s huge influence over their network, biographer Tom Bower has claimed.
Interview: Vanessa Paradis, actress
ACTRESS, singer, model, mother – Vanessa Paradis remains an enigma, and even when faced with rumours about her relationship with Johnny Depp she still manages to keep mum
Interview: Christian Louboutin, shoe designer video
ONCE a precocious little boy who stalked the Folies Bergeres, Christian Louboutin has come a long way – as a retrospective of his most iconic shoes now reveals
Interview: Rosemary Hannah, historian, on The Third Marquess of Bute
HE WAS a feminist, an anti-vivisectionist, an architectural conservationist, and an ardent champion of Scottish independence. Defying the conventions of his class and era, he was a demonstrative father and husband, a man free of pretension, allergic to sycophancy, but easily hurt
Interview: Matt LeBlanc, actor
AS Matt LeBlanc prepares to return to our TV screens in episodes, the actor explains why he’s happy to embrace his dark side
Interview: Claire Boucher, musician
OVER breakfast in a west London cafe, Claire Boucher, aka Grimes, is telling me how she made her new album. The story is every bit as dark, thrilling and extraordinary as the result. “I’d been reading a lot about medieval approaches to art, cloistering, and fasting,” explains the 24-year-old Canadian as she decorates her eggs with daubs of Tabasco. “So I decided to go for it. I wanted to do something extreme.”
Interview: The Proclaimers
‘YOU’RE going to be talking to The Proclaimers?” asks a Hibs-daft pal. “Ask them if they think we’ll lift the Scottish Cup?”
1 commentVampire to star in Saddam film
Twilight star Robert Pattinson is set to play the man who spearheaded the hunt to track down Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein, according to reports.
2 commentsChart accolade for ‘sexiest woman’
TULISA Contostavlos could top another chart this week as her debut solo single heads for the No1 spot.
Paolo Nutini to represent Scotland at London Olympics concert
PAISLEY singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini has been chosen to represent Scottish musical talent at a concert in London marking the start of the 2012 Olympic Games.
4 commentsRobbie to sing at jubilee concert
Robbie Williams has been added to the bill for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert, organised by his Take That bandmate Gary Barlow.
Interview: Madonna
MADONNA talks fashion, fragrance and retreating to her dungeon as she prepares for a global tour that will see the queen of pop perform in Edinburgh this summer
Interview: Michelle Bowley, vegetable supplier
THE BIRTH of a first child can have different effects on different people. For some, it forces them to put down roots, to seek security; others are determined to achieve something dramatic that will make their children proud; others might revert to childhood themselves in an attempt to regain lost youth.
Interview: Kenna Crawford, artist
KENNA Crawford became poet George Mackay Brown’s muse when he was 64 and she was 26. Now the love story,told in the letters and verse he sent to her. is revealed for the first time.
Interview: Torvil & Dean, ice skaters
JAYNE Torvill and Christopher Dean are on the ice but they’re not skating. Not yet. Instead, they are lying back on short wooden benches, that look like something my dad used to keep in his shed, and cycling their legs in the air.
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Ewan Morrison’s messages from the mall
EWAN Morrison has trawled shopping centres for anecdotes and confessions, and discovered some very Scottish traits shining through the uniform architecture and global brands
Former Sex Pistol says Simon Cowell is poisonous and bans use of song
Punk veteran John Lydon has revealed he banned TV bosses from using one of the Sex Pistols’ best known songs after they tried to feature it in hit show American Idol.
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Edinburgh International Magic Festival reveals broad line up
MORE than thirty performers from across the world have been lined up for this year’s Edinburgh International Magic Festival.
Darcey Bussell named as new Strictly Come Dancing judge
THE WORLD-FAMOUS former ballerina Darcey Bussell spoke of her joy today after signing as the new judge for BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing.
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- Scottish independence: SNP flip-flops over Nato
- Scottish Independence: SNP ‘won’t be Yes campaign’s only voice’
- Today’s youth not fit to be employed, says car firm Arnold Clark
- Rangers takeover: Duff & Phelps threaten legal action against BBC
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