This is the moment a kitten was scooped up from the middle of a busy road after it was thrown from a moving car. The RSPCA is trying to track down the driver of a grey car after the six-week-old kitten was dropped on a roundabout. Shocking dashcam footage shows the tiny terrified pet sitting […]

If you can’t stand the heat… Gerard Black’s advice might be to get out of Paris, especially during the current heatwave. “Everyone’s loving the weather, but I can’t really handle it,” says the singer, who is mid-tour with Gallic icon Charlotte Gainsbourg (daughter of musical legend Serge, and Jane Birkin). “But I can’t complain,” he […]

More than two-thirds of people working for small and medium-sized companies will spend some time working during their summer break, according to new research. Four in 10 people who work for SME businesses say their boss expects them to work during the holidays with 67 per cent saying they will end up doing so. The […]

Although Scotland’s connections with France go back many years and a friendly rivalry is still ignited in regular sporting events, music isn’t really an area where the twa meet too often. However, one Edinburgh act are aiming to change that, bringing their take on Gallic beats to the public in Auld Reekie and beyond. Les […]

The most-played song so far this century has been revealed, with Northern Irish band Snow Patrol taking the crown. Their ballad, Chasing Cars, was originally released in 2006. The song never made it to number one, but did remain in the charts for three years. And the track’s longevity has been proven once again, as […]

BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty is known for keeping a calm exterior when presenting the headlines or discussing the day’s news – but she couldn’t hide her disdain for Donald Trump during a discussion of his “racist” comments about four US Congresswoman. The US President has been widely condemned for suggesting that the four Democrats, […]

This dramatic footage shows a huge fire that sunk a fishing boat off the British coast – leaving two men clinging on to survival in a life raft. Theresa Appleton, 57, was on a wildlife spotting tour with her husband, Mike, 59, when they spotted smoke on the horizon. Duncan Jones, skipper of the boat, […]

The number of people saving enough for a comfortable retirement has hit its highest ever level, according to a new survey.Almost three in five people in Britain are now ‘saving adequately’ for the future, says the Scottish Widows Retirement Report 2019. But, the proportion of people not saving at all for later life has remained […]

More than seven in ten of us would get the jitters travelling in a car that drives itself – according to a new poll. IAM RoadSmart, the UK’s biggest independent road safety charity, asked more than 1,600 visitors to its website if they would feel ‘confident and safe travelling in a fully self-driving vehicle, where […]