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How Cool Are You,” released earlier this year.Featuring the band hamming it up on a skating rink in purposely loud, garish outfits and makeup, it is as punky, queer, and disarmingly fun as the Glasgow sextet themselves.With a stunning EP already under their belts, the band, led by magnetic lead singer James Potter, has now released their impressive first full-length album, Unlearning (★★★★★).Walt Disco comes across as brash and anarchic in both their sound and their ethos, but what becomes quickly apparent to anyone who listens to Walt Disco is that they are not only talented, they have done their homework, too.Proudly copping from glam rock, art pop, new wave and the Scottish post-punk scene, Walt Disco’s sound is loud, charismatic, and wondrously eclectic. Potter’s throaty, dramatic vocals, which land somewhere between Bowie and Bauhaus, are a surprisingly versatile vehicle for lyrics that range in mood from brooding to manic and everything in between.Indebted as they are to a handful of movements that crested in the ’80s, they avoid coming across as a pastiche of them.

Seven Scots including firefighters and police officers who died in the line of duty are to be among the first people to receive an Elizabeth Emblem. The award recognises police officers, firefighters and other public servants who died while on duty.

A farmhouse near Dunkeld is decked out for Christmas and its owners have taken part in a BBC interior design show.

Queen of morning TV Lorraine Kelly has left a host of famous faces lost for words in a skit for BBC Children In Need.

according to walesonline.com.“It’s fast and furious and total bedlam at times, but it’s so funny,” said Cowan, 56, who works with her husband Alasdair on the project. “Sometimes I am crying with laughter.”“Alasdair cuts up around [22 pounds] worth of cheese into cubes, but he has to do different sizes for small dogs and big dogs,” she said.

eBay has been slammed for allowing the sale of a banned drug that has killed 133 Scots in the past 10 years.The UK Government stepped in to ban the importation of phenazepam in 2012 after it emerged as a major threat to life.The synthesized Russian “legal high” was banned for import to the UK but showed up in many post-mortem toxicology reports along with other killer drugs similar to Valium.Since then, the substance has continued to be taken illegally in Scotland, killing 27 people in 2018 – the last year covered by statistics.It is among the worst of the “street Valium” drugs that feature in most of Scotland’s drug deaths, which are the worst recorded rate in the world.One Scot who contacted the Record was amazed to see the killer drug