A quarter of courses are struggling to meet tough new targets on gender balance in Scottish colleges. In total, five out of 18 subjects have failed to meet the goal of ensuring that at least 25 per cent of students on the course are male or female. The figures show ...
The Red Lion is set to host the fifth annual Great Sausage Roll Off this evening, with finalists from across Britain entering sausage rolls with the hope of been crowned Britain's best. The Barnes pub has been giving this much overlooked buffet item the attention it deserves since 2013 with an event ...
This is the extraordinary moment a Tory councillor appears to try and silence claims he was illegally hunting a fox by telling a female activist: "I'd quite like to SHAG you." Middleton hunt master Charles Carter, 33, is filmed telling the woman that she is "very pretty" before requesting her ...
Donald Trump has set out plans to build a huge shopping centre on the Mexican border to increase bilateral trade between the two countries. Fulfilling an election pledge made to US voters that he would construct a mall as soon as he got into power, the new US president is expected ...
Getting arrested after a fight in a restaurant, finding out they were being cheated on and ending up in hospital are among Brits’ biggest Valentine’s Day disasters. Millions have been left disappointed after a lacklustre Valentine’s Day, but more than one in ten went as far as to say the ...
Brefugee, noun, UK, informal - a worker who is to be displaced by Brexit Paris and Frankfurt are set to battle over so-called Brefugees. The workers, who have been displaced by Britain exiting the European Union, will in most cases have to choose between the French capital and the German ...
It is said that at any given time there are almost five barrels of whisky maturing in Scotland for every person living in the country. In a nation with a population of 5.3 million people it is quite remarkable that it houses a global industry worth £5 billion a year to the ...
Loan sharks are pushing vulnerable families into homelessness according to a campaign launched to raise awareness about the dangers associated with borrowing from illegal lenders. New figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government show there has been a 16 per cent increase of people sleeping rough on England's streets compared to last ...
Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Falkirk are the top five cities in the UK for fuel poverty, according to an infographic published by MoneySuperMarket. Scottish residents who are considered fuel poor struggle to pay their annual energy bills by an average of £437 per year. The shortfall is much less (an ...