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BBC News Published Scottish singer and entertainer Sydney Devine has died in hospital, aged 81. The star, whole sold more than 15 million albums during a career spanning seven decades, had been suffering from an undisclosed chest complaint. Friends said he died at University Hospital in Ayr early on Saturday. Devine, who was born in the Lanarkshire village of Cleland in 1940, was best known for his version of the song Tiny Bubbles. He received an MBE in 2003. His close friend and Glasgow Pavili...

Updated: 13 Feb 2021, 21:34 A WAR hero battling MND has begged scientists to use him “as a guinea pig” and test a breakthrough disease drug on him. Dad-of-three Stuart Carmichael, 40, says researchers can trial experimental medicine on him as he searches for a cure for the degenerative disorder. 3 Stuart Carmichael has begged to be a guinea pig for MND trials He was given just three years to live and has travelled to Mexico for stem cell therapy in a desperate bid to find a cure. Edinburgh...

The murder convictions of a nurse dubbed the “angel of death” have been referred to the Court of Appeal.

SCOTLAND’s benefits authority has launched a recruitment drive as it expands its level of support.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s appearance before the Alex Salmond inquiry has been postponed after a legal judgment.

THIS was Radio Clyde’s news team, shortly before the Glasgow station made its long-awaited debut on Hogmanay, 1973. From left to right, they are Alex Dickson, head of news and current affairs, Sheila Duffy, Tom Steele, David Markey, George Montgomery, Bob King, Richard Roy, George Mackintosh, Paul Murricane and Craig Samet. This was a time when all of the station’s personnel were preparing for the launch. The news team underwent in November, a week-long initiation programme in Glasgow...