ScotRail festive disruption continues as rail workers strike on last weekend before Christmas

Katie Melua has announced that she will release her ninth studio album, ‘Love & Money’, this spring.Out now is new single ‘Golden Record’, of which she says: “It’s about the scene changing and being a woman in the music industry and how strange and lucky I feel to have a job I’m addicted to”.“This approach for nearly 20 years led me to being very dogmatic and leaving very little space for my life at home”, she goes on. “Before I knew it, the years had flown and I was 36, newly divorced, still pedalling like mad with music, while around me, friends were all married, making babies”.“And while the draw of making records and getting up on stage still did everything I thought I needed for my soul”, she explains, “I knew not having a stable relationship at home and starting a family was gradually gnawing away at me”.“Writing ‘Golden Record’”, she concludes, “it was like I was finally making peace with it all, accepting how things have changed in the industry, being happy with my lot at home and ready to face the fear of letting go of the forever funfair of the music industry”.‘Love & Money’ will be out on 23 Mar and you can watch the video for ‘Golden Record’ here:Melua will also be touring the UK in May.

Lisa Marie Presley – the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley – has died, aged 54. She was taken to hospital in California following a cardiac arrest yesterday morning, but died later in the day.“It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us”, said Priscilla Presley in a statement. “She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known.

Lisa Marie Presley's life in her final years has come to light following her death aged 54.The only child of Elvis Presley was said to be living a reclusive life after being "racked with grief" after her son Benjamin Keough took his own life.The 27-year-old, who was the grandson of Elvis Presley, died by suicide in 2020.A source close to the family said: "In her final years, she was racked with grief over Ben, he was her baby, and he relied on her heavily. Her world completely fell apart when he died."She was comforted having her ex Danny [Keough] around again, they weren’t romantic but they were close."The source continued that Lisa was finding it "so difficult" to cope with the grief.They concluded to The Sun: "But she found it so difficult to cope and barely left the house for months after his death."They would just be holed up in there and she'd stay in her bedroom."Lisa wrote an emotional essay about her sons passing last summer to mark America's National Grief Awareness Day.She wrote that she had learned "grief does not stop or go away in any sense" and it is something you carry "for the rest of your life".She added that it was "lonely" and that she felt she was "judged and blamed" for her son’s death.Lisa thought this as she admitted that she herself used to "low-key judge" parents who had lost children, swearing she would never make the mistakes she assumed they did.She added: "It’s a real choice to keep going, one that I have to make every single day and one that is constantly challenging, to say the least...

Scottish actor Gerard Butler, 53, has opened up about how he accidentally burnt himself with phosphoric acid whilst filming his new film, Plane.The 300 star appeared on US chat show Late Night with Seth Meyers on Wednesday, where he recalled the terrifying ordeal.The Hollywood actor recalled how shooting one particularly crucial scene for the new action-thriller led to an unexpected medical emergency.He told talk show host Seth, 49, how had been filming on a plane in Puerto Rico when things started to go seriously wrong. "I'm trying to find something that's wrong with the plane before we can take off for this final sequence and it's something in the wheel, so it's a brake,” he explained.“So, I'm sticking my hand between these two wheels, pretending I know what I'm doing.

The nominations are out for this year’s BRIT Awards. Once again, the focus has fallen on how diverse the shortlists are – or not – in particular now that the UK’s big music awards bash doesn’t have gender specific categories like Best Female and Best Male.One of the concerns raised when the BRITs decided to get rid of the gender specific categories was that it could result in less gender diversity overall.

RELEASESMiley Cyrus has released new single ‘Flowers’. She announced earlier this week that her eighth studio album, ‘Endless Vacation’, will be out on 10 Mar.Paramore have released new single ‘C’est Comme Ça’. “I’m trying to get un-addicted to a survival narrative”, says vocalist Hayley Williams.

Three years on from their last album, ‘Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible’, Enter Shikari have announced that they will return with new LP ‘A Kiss For The Whole World’ this spring.The album, says frontman Rou Reynold, sees the band invigorated after he found himself unable to make music during the period of inactivity brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.“At the time it felt like we ourselves, as musicians, were experiencing the death of our band”, he says. “I just didn’t realise that the human and physical connection to other people were so central to how I write”.“Honestly, I thought I was fucked”, he goes on.

A woman who was banned from contacting her ex partner has appeared in court again after threatening to murder him via messages to his dog's Facebook account. Paula Higman, 38, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday for breaching the terms of a suspended sentence handed to her in August 2021.

Basic and New State Pension payments will increase this year by 10.1 per cent for some 12.5million older people across the UK, including 992,052 living in Scotland. The honouring of the Triple Lock rule was confirmed last month by the UK Government and means that older people are set for an income boost of up to £75 per month from April.

Schools across Perth and Kinross closed for two days this week as teachers took to picket lines over an ongoing national pay and conditions dispute.

Motherwell boss Steven Hammell has paid tribute to outgoing chief executive Alan Burrows, saying he will be hard to replace.

LISA Marie Presley shared a heartbreaking final message on Instagram about grief before her sudden death at age 54. Elvis Presley's daughter, who passed away on Thursday, spent her last years in anguish over her son Benjamin's suicide. Lisa Marie died hours after suffering cardiac arrest.

LISA Marie Presley looked frail in the days before her appearance at the Golden Globe awards on Tuesday. Two days later, Elvis's daughter was rushed to the hospital after suffering cardiac arrest and later died at the age of 54. Lisa Marie had to cling to actor Austin Butler's arm in photos taken before the awards show.

LISA Marie Presley, the only child of rock 'n' roll legend Elvis Presley, has died at age 54 after suffering cardiac arrest at her home. Paramedics tried to revive the singer and performed CPR on her after she was found unresponsive in her Calabasas home, California, on Thursday. She was rushed to hospital before she died.

DETAILS of Lisa Marie Presley's final days have come to light following her death at the age of 54 after a cardiac arrest. A source close to the star exclusively told The U.S. Sun that the musician was leading a reclusive life and was struggling in the wake of her son Benjamin Keough's 2020 suicide.

CORONATION Street star Georgia Taylor has split from her partner of 14 years. The actress, 42, and fellow actor Mark Letheren secretly called it quits last year and no longer live together in the family home. A source told The Sun: "The split was in July 2022 and they have both moved out of the home they shared.

ScotRail bosses have urged passengers – including football fans – to consider alternative travel arrangements over the festive period ahead of further strike action by RMT members of Network Rail.

A union boss has raised hopes that future rail strikes in Scotland could be averted as he suggested a deal in the dispute over pay could be reached "in the next week or so".

ScotRail has warned passengers to only travel if it's absolutely necessary over the next five days with massive disruption to services during the latest round of RMT strikes.