DWP clarifies payment and benefit rules for people on PIP due to go into hospital this year

EXCLUSIVE: German distributor-producer DCM, whose releases have included Spencer, Moonlight and The Artist, is teaming up with Berlin-based producer Flute Film on a film version of Édouard Louis’ acclaimed 2016 novel History Of Violence.

The UK has another new Culture Secretary.

Drivers will soon have to pay to use public electric vehicle chargers after rates were given the green light.

Gemma Collins has revealed that an ambulance was called to her home last night (Monday) following a health scare.

Love Island fans noticed two major editing blunders within moments of one another during last night's episode.

A man has been reported for an alleged hate crime offence following a protest against the housing of asylum seekers in an Erskine hotel.

Ayr United have turned down one of the biggest transfer fees in their history for top gun Dipo Akinyemi.

A Dizzee Rascal track has been removed from a Spotify playlist put together by the British government due to the rapper’s conviction last year for assault. The playlist has been created by the Department For Digital, Culture, Media And Sport to mark the upcoming coronation of King Charles.When published yesterday, the Coronation Celebration Playlist included ‘Dance Wiv Me’, Dizzee Rascal’s 2008 collaboration with Calvin Harris.

With a handful of singles to her name already, Pao Pestana has just released her first of 2023 – ‘San Menace’ – which kickstarts a run of new music from her this year.Over futuristic, experimental production from Sour Sync and Shevlane, on ‘San Menace’ Pestano switches effortlessly between English and Spanish. Rooted in pop, which grounds the track and provides a melodic core, sudden changes in timbre up the drama and intensity which keep you on tenterhooks to the last beat.The musical feel of the track matches that of the lyrics, she explains: “I wanted to write something fiction – a thriller – so I thought, ‘what if technology was human?’ The internet knows more about us than we do – how to make us happy or how to trigger us – and I find that terrifying.

EDUCATION & EVENTSRecord Store Day UK has announced The 1975 as its 2023 ambassadors. “The guys and I are really proud to be ambassadors for Record Store Day this year”, says frontman Matty Healy.

The lawyers who were working for Kanye West on a copyright case in relation to the ‘Donda 2’ track ‘Flowers’ have finally formally dropped the rapper as a client. Completing those formalities took some time because West proved rather tricky to locate.Law firm Greenberg Traurig was one of the plethora of West’s business partners that sought to cut ties with the rapper last year once he started spouting ever more controversial and offensive statements.The judge overseeing the ‘Flowers’ copyright litigation granted Greenberg Traurig’s motion to withdraw from the case at the end of November, but also ordered the law firm to personally serve West with a ‘withdrawal order’ that stated it is no longer representing him in the case.Serving that paperwork proved to be a challenge, because West had changed his address and phone number, and all the representatives the lawyers use to talk to had likewise cut their ties with the musician.Last month the lawyers told the judge they were struggling to find West to serve the papers and asked if they could formally part company with the rapper through less conventional channels.

“I have never given Boris Johnson financial advice and know nothing about his affairs,” BBC Chair Richard Sharp declared this morning repeatedly of his relationship with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Sharp also revealed he was working in Johnson’s Downing Street Home in the months leading up to applying for the BBC Chair role.

Two men have been charged after the body of a man was discovered on an Aberdeenshire street.

Renfrewshire has been handed a jobs boost as a popular coffee chain has opened their largest drive-thru outlet in the UK.

Inverness Airport railway station is set to benefit from state-of-the-art signalling technology that promises to "transform" the everyday journeys of people in the northeast of Scotland.

Police have locked down a quiet cul-de-sac in a Scottish Borders town after a missing 11-year-old girl was found 'safe'. Kaitlyn Easson was reported missing in Galashiels on Sunday night after failing to return home after being out with pals.

A row has broken out over another delay in the transfer of disability benefits to Holyrood. An extension means the UK-wide DWP could end up delivering the disability living allowance and other payments for an extra three years until 2026.

There are more properties sitting vacant in Renfrewshire than there were homeless families last year.