Iain Pope

Long Covid patients are being haunted by “unbearable” odours like fish and burning in place of normal smells, researchers say, as more unusual symptoms of the virus emerge.

More than £200,000 worth of cannabis has been seized and three men arrested after a routine police patrol on the M74 sparked a pursuit of BMW and Mercedes through the streets of Lockerbie town centre.

As we kick off our series looking at Scotland’s love affair with clubbing throughout the last 50 years we offer up a playlist of 24 songs that got the country moving.

As we kick off our series looking at Scotland’s love affair with clubbing throughout the last 50 years we offer up a playlist of 24 songs that got the country moving.

Nightclubbing really came of age as a mass market pursuit in the 80s in Scotland, with seemingly no weekend complete without a bit of club action. And this outpouring of footlose action was not confined to the big cities, with clubbing meccas like Flicks in Brechin opening their doors for the first time. With so many of us At the Dancin, and so many tastes to cater for, putting together a playlist that covers all bases is nigh on impossible, as many DJs knew only too well. And with our selectio…

From mainstream electronic dance that seemed a direct descendant of disco to the more demanding European beats that fuelled the rave scene, there was a fracturing of the nightclubbing in the 90s, with venues catering more directly to specific audiences and tastes. It was the decade of Britpop of rave and of grunge, and who could expect those completely separate strands to share the same dancefloor? It follows then that any play list professing to cover the decade in just 24 songs is always going…

He may not yet have been a Hollywood star, but Australian actor Guy Pearce was already a household name in UK thanks to his appearance in both hit Aussie soaps of the era – Neighbours and Home and Away - when he arrived at Twilights, the Outer Hebrides’ hippest nightspot as part of a promotional tour. The club’s two legendary doorwomen, Joan ‘Soapy’ Macphail and Helen Porter, were dispatched to the island’s airport to pick up the bemused young actor and chaperone him to the club ahead of his eve…

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‘Got, got, got, got, need, shinies, doublers and swapsies’ - It is a language unique to men of a certain age who are now reliving their youth in a new and unexpected craze sweeping the country - football sticker albums.

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