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Striking WGA (Writers Guild of America) members picket with striking SAG-AFTRA members outside Paramount Studios earlier this month in Los Angeles, California.

Hollywood writers' strike set to come to an end after five months

Thousands of Scots are paying for private healthcare because of long NHS waiting lists. Image: Jeff Moore/Press Association.

Tens of thousands paying for private healthcare

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Rocketing rents could force Scottish students to abandon university hopes

Edinburgh Airport - Scotland's busiest - had one third of its 321 flights cancelled on Monday by the air traffic control problems, around 20 on Tuesday, but none confirmed cancelled for that reason on Wednesday. (Photo by Lisa Ferguson/TheScotsman)

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Frederic Forrest attends the premiere of Apocalypse Now: Final Cut at the ArcLight Cinerama Dome in, 2019 in Hollywood (Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago

Russian mercenary group plot to remove Vladimir Putin

Dundee artist Saoirse Amira Anis prepares for her performances at Art Night Dundee this Saturday. Picture: Neil Hanna

How more than 20 sites across Dundee will be transformed for late-night festival

EIS General Secretary Andrea Bradley, joins members of the EIS and SSTA unions, on the picket line at St Andrew's and St Brides High School in South Lanarkshire. Secondary schools around Scotland are shut as members of the EIS and SSTA unions are taking strike action in a dispute over pay. Picture date: Wednesday January 11, 2023. PA Photo. Scotland's Education Secretary has said she will leave "no stone unturned" to bring about a quick resolution of teacher strikes affecting schools across the country. See PA story INDUSTRY Strikes TeachersScotland. Photo credit should read: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Union chief claims school violence is soaring because teacher pleas were ignored

More than 75,000 NHS staff have taken absence with mental health issues in the last five years, according to new figures - with the number of absences doubling since 2018.

NHS Scotland: Tens of thousands of staff take sick leave due to mental health

New plans would allow more doctors and nurses to receive their training "on the job" rather than via the traditional university route.

Student doctors told to skip university to solve the NHS staff crisis

King Charles III receives The St Edward's Crown during his coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey, London.

King and Queen ‘deeply touched’ at celebration of ‘glorious’ Coronation Day

Prospect members on a picket line (Photo: Prospect)

Civil servants union strikes: Two strike days announced

The King's state visit to France, the first of his reign, has been postponed, the French Presidency said, amid protests in the country over retirement age reforms. Issue date: Friday March 24, 2023.

King’s state visit to France postponed amid widespread retirement age protests

Netballer Towera Vinkhumbo, who plays for the Strathclyde Sirens, says she has not been able to contact family and friends in Malawi since the cyclone hit.

Scottish netball star tells of trouble contacting family after Malawi cyclone

Heavy rain and flooding has caused serious damage to roads and other vital infrastructure in Malawi (Picture: Amos Gumulira/AFP via Getty Images)

Deadly cyclone sees Malawi pay high price for our fossil fuel habit

Nurses to stage 48-hour strike next month including A&E workers

An aerial view of work machines and diggers at the site of collapsed buildings on February 16, 2023 in Hatay, Turkey

Capital FM: Ofcom complaints over Turkey-Syria earthquake ‘joke’

White Helmet Syrian rescue workers use an excavator to search amidst the rubble of collapsed building on February 6, 2022 in the town of Sarmada, in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, as a search operation continues following a deadly earthquake. - At least 1,400 people were killed and 3,411 injured across Syria today in an earthquake that had its epicentre in southwestern Turkey, the government and rescuers said. (Photo by AAREF WATAD / AFP) (Photo by AAREF WATAD/AFP via Getty Images)

Turkey Syria earthquake: Rescuers search for survivors after quake kills 4,800

Scotland is home to globally important colonies of seabirds such as puffins, gannets and great skuas, but a highly contagious and long-lasting outbreak of deadly avian flu is wiping them out in their thousands – sparking fears over the survival chances of threatened species. Now the National Trust for Scotland has launched a campaign aimed at boosting their chances

How to help save Scotland’s seabirds amid deadly avian flu pandemic

Pope Francis attends the funeral mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI as pallbearers carry the coffin at the end of the funeral mass at St. Peter's square

Mourners gather to pay respects at Pope Benedict XVI funeral

Fireworks exploded over Edinburgh Castle as the city's Hogmanay festival returned. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Thousands flood into Edinburgh as Pet Shop Boys light up Hogmanay festival

The Royal College of Nursing is due to take strike action for the first time in its history (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Tens of thousands of nurses start strike action today

Large-scale festivals were held in Glasgow and Inverness as part of the Dandelion project.

Nationwide food-growing project set to continue after reaching 600,000 people

Edinburgh's Hogmanay torchlight procession brought tens of thousands of people onto the streets of the city centre. Picture: Ian Georgeson

Edinburgh's Hogmanay: Plug pulled on torchlight procession through city centre

An old woman walks in the Kherson region village of Arkhanhelske, which was formerly occupied by Russian forces. Picture: Bulent Kilic/AFP via Getty Images

Russian authorities declare they are working to restore power in Kherson

John Devlin 29/07/2022. GLASGOW. BT workers on the picket line in Glasgow. CWU members in Northern Ireland and across the UK, including 999 call handlers, are to take part in further strike action tomorrow

CWU October strikes: over 40,000 BT and Openreach staff walk out

A BBC image captures Typhoon Nanmadol whipping up massive waves

Tropical storm heading towards Tokyo in Japan as nine million are evacuated

Applause rang out in the heart of Edinburgh as the Queen left the Scottish capital for the final time.

In pictures: Queen leaves Edinburgh for final time

Pallbearers from the Queen's Colour Squadron of the Royal Air Force (RAF) carry the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, draped in the Royal Standard of Scotland, into a RAF C17 aircraft at Edinburgh Airport.

Applause for the Queen as she leaves Scotland for the final time

Firefighters will decide whether to take industrial action.

Firefighters and control room staff to be balloted for strikes over pay

Workers of 'Saylani welfare trust' cook food for flood-affected people in Hyderabad in Sindh province. Monsoon rains have submerged a third of Pakistan, claiming at least 1,190 lives since June and unleashing powerful floods that have washed away swathes of vital crops and damaged or destroyed more than a million homes.

Tens of thousands of people suffering from diseases after Pakistan floods

The public are set to be hit by a fresh set of rail strikes.. Photo: Getty Images

Union warns it will 'shut down rail network' with strike

Tens of thousands of appeals will be “severely delayed” when staff at an exams body take strike action next month, a union has warned.

SQA staff strike will severely delay exam appeals process, union warns

Rubbish could be left "piling up in the streets", unions have warned

Council workers at risk of poverty unless pay offer improves, says union

MS Victoria is to house refugees in Leith.

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NHS staff are angry at below-inflation pay offers

Tens of thousands of NHS staff in Scotland balloted for industrial action

British Airways is to cancel hundreds more summer flights as previous schedule cuts aimed at easing disruption proved insufficient

British Airways cancels hundreds more summer flights

Strike action could be “inevitable” for tens of thousands of council workers in Scotland this summer, as union bosses hit out at the offer of a “paltry” pay increase.

Strike action ‘inevitable’ if Cosla pay dispute not resolved, GMB Scotland warns

A Rangers fan in Sevillie ahead of Wednesday's UEFA Europa League Final

Rangers fans descend on Seville as anticipation builds for Europa League final

Ryan Kent has received Europa League final ticket requests from 'family he didn't know he had'. (Photo by Alan Harvey / SNS Group)

Rangers star caught in Europa League final ticket scramble

Julian Clary is appearing at this year's Borders Book Festival.

Borders Book Festival reveals line-up for 2022 comeback at traditional home

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Kirsty McLuckie: Room for more thought

A man has been killed in Co Wexford after being struck by a falling tree, police in Ireland have said.

Man killed by falling tree as Storm Eunice brings 100mph winds to UK

A Russian armoured vehicle drives off a railway platform after arrival in Belarus. Picture: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP

Warning tens of thousands could die if Russia launch 'stupid' conflict

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TRNSMT 2022: Line-up for Friday, Saturday and Sunday and how to get tickets

The mass climate change rally in Glasgow on Friday. Between 50,000 and 100,000 are expected to protest in the city today. PIC: John Devlin/TSPL.

COP26: Glasgow for gridlock as tens of thousands of protesters set to march

Figures obtained by the PA news agency revealed that tens of thousands of people across the UK's cities are on a waiting list to store their bike in a safe space.

May on waiting list for safe space to store bike across UK

The Armadillo, Exhibition Halls and SSE Hydro, on the Scottish Event Campus alongside the River Clyde in Glasgow, which will host the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (Cop26).

Tens of thousands of COP26 attendees to be exempt from vaccine passport scheme

Tens of thousands of children will be hit by poverty due to missed government targets, a new report has warned

Tens of thousands of children will have lives 'blighted by hardship'

Could HMS Queen Elizabeth be a secure venue for a slimmed-down COP26?

It's vital that COP26 proceeds, but not like this - Readers' Letters

The process of testing the new Covid vaccines was carried out in less than nine months, when normally it might have taken more than ten years (Picture: Thibault Savary/AFP via Getty Images)

Covid vaccine trials were a triumph. A similar system for antibiotics is vital

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Those losing a job in later working life already faced an uphill struggle to find another – pressure that has been amplified by the current downturn

Older workers are at risk of being left behind - Brian Sloan

The kits will be sent to women between 25 and 64 years old who are 15 months overdue for a check (Photo: Shutterstock)

At-home smear tests to be trialled by thousands of UK women in bid to cut cervic...

Security officers push back people shouting slogans during a protest held in support to farmers who have been on a months-long protest, in New Delhi, India. The Sikh Council UK has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to intervene.

Scottish Sikhs urge Dominic Raab to intervene in India protests

Protesters take part in the March to Remain in the EU for Peace and Climate Action in Edinburgh in 2019 (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

Scotland only has one way to rejoin the EU – Angus Robertson

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

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Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

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