Dumfries and Galloway Council to step up recruitment ahead of phase two of Dumfries Learning Town

Baby Cow, the UK production company founded by Steve Coogan, has promoted managing director Sarah Monteith to CEO following the departure of Christine Langan last November.

Dumfries House, in Ayrshire, Johnny Dumfries, who has passed away. The former F1 star died on Tuesday aged 62, following a recent illness.Johnny's full name was John Colum Crichton-Stuart.

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weather and chilling lows drag into the weekend. Wind speeds of up to 40mph are expected in some parts of England on Wednesday, with lows of 2C felt in some parts of the country.The Met Office claim rain will also crash down, with light showers expected in the south of England before a build up thrashes Scotland and the north East.Forecaster Claire Nashir said most Brits will see "sunshine first thing" but some can expect “thunder and hail” by the end of the day.

Edinburgh city centre, assaulting and spitting on staff.Hassan Fallah was caught by cops with a kitchen knife beside the Marks & Spencers outlet in the city’s Princes Street.In another incident at the Sainsbury’s branch in St Andrew Square he attacked workers and spat at them.The 21-year-old spit and struggled with staff at a Sainsbury’s Local on Morrison Street.And he punched the store manager in the head at the Co-op on the same street.Fallah appeared via prison video link at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Tuesday and pled guilty to eight charges.Fiscal depute Jennifer McLaren told how Fallah went into the Sainsbury’s Local on June 7 last year where he was approached by security guard Paul Donald.Ms McLaren said Fallah “immediately lashed

De Standaard: "What is certain is that the panda should never have been allowed in that room."There have been no previous attacks reported at Pairi Daiza.  Zoo safety protocol means contact between humans and giant pandas is forbidden after the animals turn two years old, or weigh 70kg. Giant pandas spend up to 14 hours each day feeding on bamboo, which account for 99 per cent of their diet and are solitary animals.Tian Bao was born at the zoo Pairi Daiza on June 2, 2016 - and was the first giant panda to be born in Belgium.He's expected to be sent to China after his fifth birthday this year, at some point before the end of the year.It has not been revealed if the attack will result in Tian Bao being shipped off to China earlier.

Demi Lovato debuted her brutally honest YouTube Originals docuseries Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil this Tuesday.The singer/actress, 28, kept a low-profile ahead of premiere day, flying under the radar during a trip to the nail salon on Monday.The star looked strong as ever as she ventured out after revealing how she lost her virginity when she was raped at just 15-years-old during her new tell-all, a revelation she told People magazine was 'liberating.' Under the radar: Demi Lovato kept a low-profile while stopping by the nail salon on the day before the premiere of her docuseries Demi Lovato: Dancing With The DevilDemi embraced quirky vintage vibes during her outing, donning a loose Stone Cold Steve Austin shirt with a faded

Kim Kardashian looks back over her shoulder with a big smile while arriving at a business meeting in Los Angeles on Tuesday (March 23).

close his chain of Jamie’s Italian restaurants in 2019, and he appointed KPMG as administrators.1000 members of staff were left out of work and creditors faced an £83million loss.According to The Mirror 196 members of former restaurant staff won a tribunal claim when the company was found to have fallen short of the Trade Union Act, which requires employers to consult with employees before any closure.

A new poll of 900 Californians shows embattled governor Gavin Newsom narrowly beating the recall vote he seems almost certain to face this fall.

Kim Kardashian was simply beaming when she was spotted out on Monday.Despite a difficult time in her personal life, Kim looked happier than ever as she flashed a smile, and a silver grill on her lower teeth.Pictured with some of her team in Los Angeles, the reality star - who filed for divorce from husband Kanye West last month - showed off her curves in fitted snakeskin pants.

Piers Morgan has never been one to hold back his thoughts regarding 'woke culture' and today was no exception. Promoting his book Wake Up on his Instagram page, Piers posted a pic of himself alongside a stacked collection of his books.

UPDATED with trailer: HBO has set an April 7th release date and revealed the first trailer for anticipated hybrid series, Exterminate All the Brutes.

Celebrity Bake Off sent Twitter into a frenzy this week as rap star Dizzee Rascal made a hilarious "stiff peak" innuendo that left fans hot under the collar.The 36-year-old had been busy trying to make meringue after Paul Hollywood had set the Queen Of Pudding challenge.Trying to understand how to get the right consistency of the chewy dessert, he joked: "Stiff peak, stiff peak."What the hell is a stiff peak?"Fans of the BBC programme immediately took to their keyboards to laugh about the distracting stint.One fan wrote: "Dizzee Rascal on bake off is giving me life,' 'Stiff peak' i'm dying."A second penned: "Dizzie Rascal on Bakeoff is fun! Entertainment that I never expected to see #BakeOff."Another chimed: "Dizzee Rascal and 'stiff peak'

HBO has set an April 7th release date for anticipated hybrid series, Exterminate All the Brutes.

Kate Garraway: Finding Derek – tonight [Tuesday] at 9pm on ITV

 “Your kids will definitely know about it, I’m really unnerved by it.  “I actually hate the whole cancel culture and I had quite an interesting conversation with our girls this afternoon, which again left me unsettled.”Nadia then quizzed her fans in her video: “So what do you know about cancel culture? “Has your child ever been cancelled? Has your child been involved in cancelling another child? “Let us know anything and everything, and young people - has anything like this happened to you?”The mum-of-two didn’t share further details about what was said during her conversation with her daughters.Nadia’s former ITV colleague Piers Morgan, 55, has also been vocal about cancel culture recently.The outspoken journalist left his role on Good

The collapse of millionaire Jamie Oliver’s UK restaurant empire has cost taxpayers a further £500,000 after axed staff won a compensation bid, the Mirror can reveal.

“I crossed a line that I had never crossed in the world of addiction,” Demi Lovato tells the cameras in the first episode of her YouTube documentary series, Demi Lovato: Dancing With Devil, out today. The four-part series shares the untold story of Demi’s overdose in 2018 from the perspective of not only the singer, but from the doctors who saved her life, the family who prayed for her, and the people who found her on that tragic day. Jordan Jackson was one of those people.

Ant Middleton reunited with his SAS: Who Dares Wins co-stars as they arrived in Australia.