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Getty Images Oasis performed to 80,000 people in Balloch in 1996 Ashleigh Keenan-Bryce BBC Scotland News One drunken night in Glasgow in 1993, Scottish music executive Alan McGee went out to a gig in the hopes of bumping into an ex-girlfriend. But he ended up signing one of the biggest …

Maria Cassidy & Oliver Slow BBC News BBC James Howell says his ex-partner accidentally threw out a hard drive with 8,000 bitcoins in 2013 and he’s been trying to recover it ever since It has lasted 12 years, involving a High Court and Court of Appeal hearing, and a very …

Restrictions on serious sexual and violent criminals forcing them stay in specific areas are being planned by the government. Offenders would be limited to a geographical zone, policed by tougher monitoring and enhanced tagging, under legislation being drawn up. While exclusion zones are already used in licence restrictions as somewhere …

“All three clubs have been found to have breached SPFL rules in failing to ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, that their supporters did not engage in “unacceptable conduct” at those matches,” the league said in a statement. “The clubs were also found to have failed to identify or …

The US has doubled a reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to $50m (£37.2m), accusing him of being “one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world”. US President Donald Trump is a long-time critic of Maduro, who returned to office in January following an …

Donald Trump has rowed back on an earlier claim that he will only meet with Vladimir Putin if Volodymyr Zelenskyy is also at the summit – as a US deadline for Moscow to avoid further sanctions arrives. The Russian president said on Thursday that he hoped to meet the US …

What do we do about the non-doms?  It’s a question more than a handful of people have been asking themselves at the Treasury lately. Politics Hub: Follow latest updates It had seemed simple enough. In her first budget as chancellor, Rachel Reeves promised a crackdown on the non-dom regime, which …

Trump is close friends with UFC president Dana White, who was a key supporter during his 2024 election campaign. Last month Trump said he plans to host a UFC event at the White House next year as part of America’s 250th anniversary celebrations. Despite his return to the US to …

An Australian politician and convicted rapist has resigned from parliament moments before he was to be kicked out, after losing a legal challenge to remain. Gareth Ward, 44, was last month found guilty of sexually assaulting two young men, aged 18 and 24, between 2013 and 2015, and is now …

Myles Bonnar BBC Scotland News The rise and fall of the notorious ‘Big Mags’ Haney In January 1997, long before the modern phenomena of online “paedophile hunters”, a Scottish grandmother found overnight fame when she successfully drove a convicted child sex offender out of the Raploch housing estate in Stirling. …

A man who spent more than a decade building up a collection of 15,000 indecent images of children has been jailed. Ross Hughes, 38, from Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court on Wednesday, as well as a …

It’s time to change crews on the International Space Station. On Friday, you can tune in to NASA’s live coverage of the return of Crew-10 on NASA Plus, Amazon Prime and more streaming services. Events begin with the hatch closure and undocking on Friday, and the crew returns on the following day.  …

GPT-5 has finally arrived. Along with the announcement of the highly anticipated AI model, OpenAI also previewed several updates coming to ChatGPT, ranging from visual changes to improvements to the chatbot’s performance. Here’s a rundown of all of the changes you can expect to see in ChatGPT. Say goodbye to …

Tim Dodd Climate and science reporter Adam Gor/Butterfly Conservation The Southern Small White has been gradually making its way across Europe A species of butterfly previously only found in Southern Europe has been seen in the UK for the first time, according to charity Butterfly Conservation. Experts have tracked the …

The government is seeking to introduce “restriction zones” to limit where convicted domestic abusers can go. Exclusion zones currently exist to stop perpetrators from going within a certain distance of where their victims live. The new plans would place greater limits where abusers can go, with the aim of allowing …

Eddie Murphy has told Sky News he doesn’t ever expect to win awards – but will happily accept an honorary Oscar when he’s 90. Murphy is one of the biggest stars in comedy after starting out on Saturday Night Live (SNL) in 1980 and starring in a number of big …

Andy Bayes, BBC Radio Lancashire Head coach: Valerien Ismael Last season: Seventh Key ins: Sidnei Tavares (Moreirense, undisclosed), Dion De Neve and Ryan Alebiosu (KV Kortrijk, both undisclosed), Sean McLoughlin (Hull, undisclosed), Axel Henriksson (GAIS, undisclosed), Lewis Miller (Hibernian, undisclosed) Key outs: Callum Brittain (Middlesbrough, undisclosed), Joe Rankin-Costello (Charlton, undisclosed), …

Convicted triple-murderer Erin Patterson allegedly tried to repeatedly poison her husband, including with cookies she claimed their daughter had baked him, a court has heard. The Australian woman was last month found guilty of murdering three relatives – and attempting to kill another – with a toxic mushroom-laced beef Wellington. …

“Minister for hypocrisy is forced to quit” reports the Daily Mail, one of several papers leading on Rushanara Ali’s resignation. The parliamentary under-secretary of state for homelessness and rough sleeping was accused of “staggering hypocrisy” after it was alleged that she had “ejected” tenants from one of her properties, before …

US President Donald Trump is pushing to make it easier for Americans to use retirement savings to invest in cryptocurrencies, private equity, property, gold and other kinds of non-traditional assets. On Thursday, he ordered regulators to look for ways to change rules that might discourage employers from including such offerings …