Queens Park Rangers sign attacking midfielders Koki Saito and Karamoko Dembele on season-long loans.

QPR bring in Dembele & Saito on season-long loans

"Three games into his Rangers career, he already seems a fan favourite."John Walker, host of the Scots Abroad podcast, heaped praise on Connor Barron's seamless shift into the Rangers team since making the move from Aberdeen this summer. Why has he taken to life at Ibrox - or Hampden - like a duck to water, though? Walker believes it's, in part, due to his commitment to the cause. Speaking on the BBC's Scottish Football Podcast, Walker said, "Rangers fans are like any other set of football fans - except their expectation to win things all the time - they want...

'Barron's level of work-rate has been missing for some time'

A group of friends have taken the sport of highlining into some of Scotland's most stunning landscapes. Inverness-based Owen Hope, 25, and Lizzie Wood, 26, along with Michael Ross, 30, who lives in Glasgow, all have backgrounds in climbing. Highlining involves walking on a long piece of webbing anchored at...

In pictures: Scotland's mountain highliners

A multi-billion pound subsea cable that can shift vast amounts of renewable electricity between Scotland and England has been given the go-ahead by regulators. SSEN Transmission says the energy transfer project is needed to move energy around the grid on days when the wind doesn’t blow or demand is high.

Electric 'superhighway' approved between Scotland and England

Almost 300 homes are to be built on an industrial site that was initially planned for redevelopment 10 years ago. Durham County Council is to build 282 homes on the site at Stephenson Road, between Peterlee and Horden, after its plans were approved on Friday. Planning permission was initially given...

Almost 300 homes to be built on old industrial site

Officers investigating the crash are continuing to appeal for any witnesses to come forward.

Biker who died in crash 'will be hugely missed'

The men are remanded in custody charged in connection with 1,000 plants found in Whitehaven.

Two men charged over cannabis farm

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In 1981, pop-music sensation Andy Gibb was at the top of the charts. The younger brother of Barry, Robin, and Maurice, a.k.a. The Bee Gees, commenced a tumultuous romance with actress Victoria Principle, who played Pam Ewing on Dallas, TV's then-Number 1 prime-time series. But after the relationship ended, Andy's life, already challenged by substance abuse, did as well. This is their tragic story.

The Tragic Death of Pop Star Andy Gibb & His Traumatic Romance with 'Dallas' Star Victoria Principle

The snake is believed to be a boa constrictor according to the Friends of Ley Hill Park group.

Park warning after 'boa constrictor' sightings

Balasankar Narayanan, 44, is potentially violent and should not be approached, the Met Police says.

Man who is 'risk to women' flees care facility

Kate Jackson began her acting career as a silent ghost on TV's classic 1960s gothic daytime drama Dark Shadows but remains alive and well years after two horrific battles with breast cancer. Jackson went on to small screen prime-time stardom on police/detective/crime drama/comedies like The Rookies, Charlie's Angels, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and more. This is her triumphant story.

'Charlie's Angels' Star Kate Jackson Has Courageously Battled and Conquered Cancer Several Times

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An 18-year-old man has admitted being part of a group who left a police community support officer (PCSO) fearing for his life as they violently rocked a police van during the rioting in Rotherham.Footage of the CCTV van being rocked from side to side, with its rooftop mast swinging alarmingly, was one of many dramatic images of Sunday’s violence outside a Holiday Inn Express housing more than 200 asylum seekers.A neighbour of Kenzie Roughley, of Barnsley Road, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, contacted police with video footage of him punching and kicking the vehicle, and his fingerprints were later found on the...

Man, 18, admits to helping rock police van during Rotherham disorder

Arlene Arkinson was 15 went she went missing in 1994 following a disco in Bundoran, County Donegal.

Arlene Arkinson family vow to never give up search

Officers say she was approached by a man who then assaulted her a short time later.

Police appeal after woman assaulted in churchyard

It might not be much of a comfort now, but in time it could be. If reports, and Bojan Miovski's apparent goodbye to Aberdeen fans on Sunday, are anything to go by, his impending departure could be "really good business", according to former striker Rory Loy. Figures as high as £7 million are being circled, and Loy - who followed Aberdeen in the Conference League with BBC Radio Scotland last season - believes such a fee is "exactly on the nose" and can only be an aid to Jimmy Thelin's fine start in the Dons dugout."I think it's a good...

'Thelin has the leverage to use potential Miovksi funds wisely'

Dundee City Council leader John Alexander is to step down, he has announced. The SNP politician became the council leader in 2017. The councillor for Strathmartine will leave his role on 29 August, and take up a new position with energy firm SSEN. First Minister John Swinney said: "John Alexander...

Dundee City Council leader stepping down

Plans to build a solar farm the size of 86 football fields in Kent have been rejected as "insane". Developers of the installation on "high-grade" farmland near Sittingbourne were told by a councillor the panels should instead be placed on roofs and car parks. Supporters pointed out the site -...

Council rejects solar farm plan branded 'insane'

A boat hand-crafted to look like a great white shark has been vandalised just five days after its maiden voyage. Fin Bowron, from Boulmer, had attached a fibreglass shark head and fins to a 1970s jet boat frame and installed an engine. He first envisioned his aquatic dream 15 years...

Shark speedboat broken in engine theft

Police say they have not arrested anyone yet in connection with the incident on Keighley Road.

'Substantial' cannabis farm discovered in town

Father John Heneghan says Alice da Silva Aguair "had a glorious smile".

Parents of Southport victim 'surrounded by love'

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Dundee & County complain over Inverness fees

Ross County and Dundee complain to the SPFL about unpaid fees in respect of the loans of Alex Samuel and Cammy Kerr to Inverness Caledonian...

Dundee & County complain over Inverness fees

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