Scottish fans are hoping Bruce Mouat and his team won't be the only sporting success in North America this year, though Steve Clarke has said no matter how good the curler’s tactics, he won't be emulating them and playing with a sweeper
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A passenger on a flight from Jamaica to New York gave birth just as the plane landed at John F Kennedy airport. Flight Attendants were quick to wrap the newborn in hot towels and blankets, as well as check if it was interested in any duty free or scratchcards
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Barney Walsh has been banned from driving for six months after being caught speeding on the M4. The judge gave him three points, saying the Gladiators host would have got more if he hadn't been caught just outside Bristol by Nitro
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Government plans will mean people can cancel subscriptions with the click of a button, rather than the current way of changing your name and emigrating
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Many countries are involved with the Artemis project to go back to the moon. Europe is building the life support systems, Canada has designed the lunar rover, and Britain is supplying a picnic basket and box of Cream Crackers
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As they passed over 250,000 miles from Earth, the Artemis crew were further from home than any humans before, so they were puzzled when they still managed to end up with a flyer on their window for a car boot sale
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During their flyby of the far side of the moon, NASA requested that the Artemis crew say what they see while conducting observations. At $4 billion a flight, that makes the mission by far the most expensive episode of Catchphrase
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Musselbrough’s annual corgi derby was won this year by a 3 year old called Islay. A favourite of the late queen, but with a history of behavioural problems due to inbreeding, the event was not attended by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
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A seat cushion from one of the Titanic's lifeboats is expected to fetch up to £180,000 when it's sold this month. Bidding is expected to be fierce, though the auctioneers have calmed things down by demanding it's women and children first.
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A light up C-3PO head used in Star Wars episode V-The Empire Strikes Back has sold at auction for 1 million dollars. I went to the auction myself hoping to bid on it but was told "This is not the droid you're looking for"
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Italy have failed to qualify for the third world cup in a row after losing on penalties to Bosnia Herzegovina. Many across Italy are practicing damage limitation, by checking online family trees to see if they've got any Scottish ancestors.
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Astronauts are on their way to the moon after Artemis II blasted off from Florida on Wednesday. The four crew members are travelling in a capsule named integrity, as it seems fitting to have integrity speeding away from Earth while Donald Trump is president.
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Jamie Lee Curtis won an Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once, a film about how many seats the SNP will have to win this May to start talking about another Independence Referendum.
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Sir Billy Connolly's favourite piece at Kelvingrove Art Gallery is Fulton's Grand Orrery, a working model of the solar system. The gift shop also sells an adapted version for any Flat-Earthers visiting, called a map.
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Things are so bad with ferries in the Scottish Islands that Calmac have resorted to what they're calling the cross-channel solution, they're dropping passengers in the sea and hoping the RNLI take them to their destination.
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Isle of Islay, the first of four new Calmac ferries built in Turkey for the Scottish Islands, entered service on Monday after teething troubles, a common complaint from anyone who's had work done in Turkey.
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Experts warn that the crisis in the middle east could lead to chaos and plunge us back into the 1970s: news that's terrible to politicians and car owners, but great for fans of Showaddywaddy
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Plans to restore Scotland's largest glasshouse have taken a step forward after the trust caring for it secured £1.1m in funding. Springburn Winter Gardens closed in 1983 after storm damage, and the unwise idea of holding the world stone throwing championships.
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A woman has gone on trial accused of trying to k1ll her stepfather by lacing his kebab with poison. Police say the suspect confessed after a long grilling, which they did by putting her in a shop window and turning her really slowly.
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Late on Wednesday night, NASA launched the Artemis II spacecraft “Integrity”. Asked what he thought about Integrity, President Donald Trump said, ‘I don’t know what you mean’.
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Eight CalMac ferries are currently out of service, having been commandeered by the Royal Navy, who are even shorter of boats than the Western Isles.
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It's been confirmed that the King and Queen will welcome Charles and Camilla to the US later this month.
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Jamie Lee Curtis is also known for her role in True Lies. That too is getting remade, daily during President Trump’s briefings. #BTNNB #BTNRejects #LittleBitOfPoliticsThere
A woman who claimed more than £23,000 in benefits, saying she was too ill to go outside, was caught surfing and ziplining in Mexico. Suspicions were aroused on a home visit as when asked where her pills were, she started whacking a Piñata. #BTNNB #BTNRejects
A Tesco store in Kirkwall has been giving away bananas after accidentally ordering around 38,000 of them, almost twice Orkney’s population. When they asked the head of buying why they’d ordered so many, they replied [DES DOES MONKEY/CHIMP NOISES] (You’re welcome, Des!) #BTNNB #BTNRejects
A woman who claimed twenty-three grand in benefits saying she was too ill to go out has been caught surfing and ziplining in Mexico. In fairness, she said she couldn't go outside. She never mentioned anything about going loco down in Acapulco.
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Fundraisers have secured £1.1 million to restore Scotland's largest glasshouse as a "living ruin". Or as it's known in Edinburgh, a one-bed doer-upper below market rates.
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Efforts to remove invasive stoats from Orkney have given a boost to native voles and birds of prey. Nigel Farage was quick to praise this example of a successful deportation policy.
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Stella McCartney has won approval for a clifftop home in the Highlands despite sixty-five objections. Earlier in the planning application she was asked, "Will you still deed it, will you still screed it, when you've sixty four?"
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A judge in Brazil has blocked plans for a zipline from Sugarloaf Mountain. He's also rejected the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees and the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings.
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