A new mum is feared to have bled to death in a hospital stairwell after getting lost on her way back to a ward from seeing her premature baby son, Moxy Hotels poised to open at Edinburgh Airport in the new year and Liverpool and Scotland defender Andy Robertson 'worth £72 million'.

Glasgow’s biggest hub for the film and TV industries is set to mount a bid to run the vast new studio proposed for Edinburgh’s waterfront.

Scotland’s cultural identity is being put at risk by cuts to music education in schools, industry leaders have warned.

It was one of the saddest and most dramatic moments in the whole history of Scottish pantomime; the day in October 2010 when it was announced that Gerard Kelly, the legendary “daft laddie” in more than a dozen pantos at the King’s Theatre, Glasgow since the 1990s, had died suddenly of a brain aneurysm aged only 51, just five weeks before the opening night of that year’s King’s panto. Kelly was scheduled to play one of his favourite roles, as the jester Muddles in Sleeping Beauty; and over the years, he had also become one of the main upholders and tradition-bearers of the Scottish panto scene, using his television fame to add clout to his passionate defence of the Scottish panto tradition.

One of Scotland’s leading artists has said he hopes a new statue of Charles Rennie Mackintosh will help Glasgow move on from the devastating fire which destroyed the celebrated architect’s best known building.