New Lucy Simon Video-Podcast Series Features Late Composer And Broadway Performers Sierra Boggess, Ramin Karimloo & ‘Secret Garden’ Stars Daisy Eagan, John Cameron Mitchell, Others

An OAP who was living in a cold and damp house has been left ''emotional'' after a group of kind-hearted strangers transformed her home for free in time for Christmas. Irene, who suffers from a range of health conditions, had been living without any heating or hot water and was left close to tears after she received help from volunteers and generous donations from the public to fix up her home.

West Lothian residents are being urged to take note of changes to bin collections over the festive period.

Katie Price and her fiance Carl Woods have called time on their relationship.

Happy faces were everywhere on Saturday as the Perth Christmas Lights Switch On event went off with a bang!

A soil expert has told how she helped catch the killer of Irish student Karen Buckley because dirt on his car had been missed when he had it cleaned.

Strictly star Oti Mabuse announced her departure from the show earlier this year but has since admitted the transition was so "scary" that she questioned whether she could handle leaving it behind.The 32-year-old, who left her birthplace South Africa aged 16 to pursue a career in dance, was daunted about the prospect of turning away from the hit show that had first given her fame in the UK."I’ve been under this incredible umbrella for seven years, where people know on Saturday night you bring them joy, and you make them smile," she mused."When a lot of things in your business are based off that [feeling], it was really, really scary [to leave]."I was asking myself, ‘Am I ready? Am I fit enough to do this? Can I handle it?'" the ballroom star agonised.However she concluded in a new interview with Women's Health UK magazine that she has always been up for a "challenge".However, Oti had previously explained that she'd been keen to leave the show while it was still at its "peak".She'd also confided in Women's Health UK that she had insecurities about her changing metabolism, admitting that it had become increasingly difficult for her to "burn [fat] as fast as [I] used to"."Oh my gosh, what is this? Is this turning 30?!" she exclaimed, before adding: "My body has completely taken on a new shape [since] two, three years ago."Meanwhile, having already hit the main target that she arrived in the UK to achieve - winning Strictly - she decided it was time for new projects.That meant leaving the show behind, despite her sister Motsi still returning as a judge without her, and trying her hand at a Dancing On Ice judging role instead.Oti has appeared on Celebrity Gogglebox and The Masked Dancer too, while her husband Marius Iepure,

Steven Spielberg will be feted with a special homage at the 73rd edition of the Berlin International Film Festival next February.

Jane Park appears to be single again just two weeks after the Scottish Lotto winner shared a video of 'the guy she never knew she needed'.

Thousands of pro-independence supporters are expected to gather at rallies across Scotland tomorrow after the Supreme Court issues its IndyRef2 verdict.

Last week, TripAdvisor unveiled its Winter Travel Index, which revealed the top trending travel destinations in the UK this winter.

An East Kilbride funeral directors has slammed Glasgow City Council after they were slapped with a bus lane fine for dropping a grieving family at a wake.

A woman who died in a crash on the A9 in Perthshire has been named by Police Scotland. She was Claire Wilson (55) from Dunfermline.

The search for Rangers next manager is on and Michale Beale is the leading candidate to make an emotional return to Glasgow.

A new report has found that the introduction of minimum unit pricing over three years ago has been effective in reducing alcohol consumption in Scotland.

Roads and communities across Perth and Kinross were hit with torrential rainfall and floodwater once again last week.

People are being warned that a "highly contagious" respiratory virus could be on the rise during the winter.

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Carly Simon is opening up after suffering two back-to-back losses.

Pop superstar Carly Simon paid tribute to her sisters – opera singer Joanna Simon and Broadway composer Lucy Simon – who each died of cancer last week within one day of the other.