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A brain tumour is a rare but potentially dangerous growth of cells in the brain.

The success of a Dumbarton-born 19-year-old who has been selected for the Scotland Women’s National Team squad for the upcoming FIFA World Cup Playoff versus Austria has inspired girls at a local high school to play the beautiful game.

All Scotland international football matches should be free to view on TV, the Greens have demanded.

The PS5 is still very much one of the most sought after games consoles, and is sure to be at the very top of hundreds of Christmas lists this year. However, it can be expensive - particularly when you want to buy games and accessories to go with it, so you have to look out for money-saving offers.

Strictly Come Dancing could be picking up the phone in anticipation of the 2023 series after Martin Lewis broke his usual serious character on Good Morning Britain. The money-saving guru was back fronting the ITV news programme today (September 21) alongside Susanna Reid.

Emmerdale fans couldn't be more on the same page when it comes to Faith Dingle. Viewers of the ITV soap have been left devastated as they watch the much-loved character start to deteriorate following her terminal cancer diagnosis.

Marta Balaga “The Woodcutter Story,” a Finnish drama with a surreal touch, has been sold to Australia (Palace Films), Baltics (Estinfilm), Sweden (Njuta), Germany (Eksystent) and France (Urban), Paris-based Totem Films shared exclusively with Variety. Directed by Mikko Myllylahti, it sees a good man who runs into bad luck: he loses his job and his wife leaves, but Pepe (Jarkko Lahti) is trying to keep his head high. Even when strange things start to happen in his sleepy village. The film, which premiered in Cannes’ Critics Week, screens Wednesday at the Helsinki Film Festival – Love & Anarchy. It will have its North American premiere at Chicago Film Festival and its U.K. premiere at the London Film Festival.

Lise Pedersen French director Julien Villanueva whose animation and VFX outfit Circus Studio has worked on the likes of “Lego City Adventures”, “Around the World in 80 Days” and “White Fang,” has pitched his first ever original TV series project at Cartoon Forum in Toulouse. “Dr Bob is a very simple concept,” he joked to the crowd of industry professionals gathered at the pitching forum in the southern French city. “It’s like Freud meets Kermit the Frog,” he explained about his show, a sitcom centered around Dr. Bob, a wacky psychologist who goes to extremes to make his patients happy, which often leads to radical consequences.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Japan’s biggest film group Toho announced that it has taken a controlling stake in TIA (previously Toho Interactive Animation), a production company behind the “100 Nichikan Ikita Wani,” film and anime series “iii icecrin,” “iii icecrin2” “Ninja Collection” and “That Is the Bottleneck.” Originally known as I&A, the company was established in 2017 by ILCA and Anima. The name changed to TIA after Toho bought a nearly 35% from the two founders in 2020. Toho has now bought out Anima’s stake, giving it a 67.4% majority holding and cause to rename the company again, this time to Toho Animation Studio. Deal terms were not disclosed.

Naman Ramachandran Executive producer Mary Burke has launched production company Public Dreams Ltd, which aims to bring together the best of film and TV talent to produce distinctive, ambitious, commercial content for the British and global markets. Burke launches the company after five years as senior executive at the BFI Film Fund and 13 years at Warp Films where she amassed more than 40 TV and film credits including “Submarine,” “Saint Maud,” “Phantom of the Open,” “Brian and Charles,” “God’s Own Country,” “Colette” and “Ammonite.” She has won a BAFTA Scotland best feature award for “For Those in Peril” and a BAFTA Cymru in the same category for “Submarine.”

Lise Pedersen Oscar-winning animation film producer Nicolas Schmerkin (“Logorama,” 2010) has revealed his Paris-based outfit Autour de Minuit has signed a pre-development agreement with Franco-German TV channel Arte for its latest project, “Fucking Cat”, which is being pitched at this week’s Cartoon Forum in Toulouse. An adaptation of Belgian author Stéphane Lapuss’ “Putain de Chat” comic book series, “Fucking Cat” tells the story of Moustique, the talking cat, who, like all cats, hates humans and would like to get rid of his master but faces the dilemna of how to become master of the world without giving up his cat food. Both Lapuss and co-author Lionel Bonnal will assist in penning the adaptation. 

Marta Balaga Finland’s Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture (AVEK) and Finnish Cultural Foundation are launching Kehittämö – Talent Development Lab, Variety has learned exclusively. Described as Finland’s first audiovisual development program, it will provide aspiring creators with financial support – €55,000 each, bringing the yearly budget up to half a million – and mentoring from international experts, including Karol Griffiths, who has collaborated with the Coen brothers, Gitte Hansen and Alex Szalat, the head of Docs Up Fund. “[It will allow us to] bring high quality fiction and documentary films, media artworks and other audiovisual works to the culture-loving audience. AVEK has excellent understanding and wide networks in the sector and working with them will bring added value to the Cultural Foundation’s work,” says director of cultural affairs Juhana Lassila.

Holly Willougby, 41, and Phillip Schofield, 60, were seen being led past the regular queue of mourners to see the Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall last week.The presenters were seen walking behind This Morning boss Martin Frizzell and other members of the crew in a closed off area.In the clip, 41-year-old Holly was seen wearing a black dress and blazer with a mask over her face.Phillip, amongst his fellow male colleagues, opted for a smart black suit.The moment caused many to slam the pair on social media for what appeared to be queue jumping.After a lot of backlash, This Morning were forced to step in and comment.Kirstie Allsopp slams 'Meghan and Harry's treatment of Queen'They said in a statement: "Hello everyone, we would like to clarify something."We asked Phillip and Holly to be a part of a film for this Tuesday's programme."They did not jump the queue, have VIP access or file past the Queen lying in state, but instead, were there in a professional capacity as part of the world's media to report on the event."The presenting duo also issued a comment during a segment about the late monarch's funeral on Tuesday's show.Holly said in the VT: "Like hundreds of accredited broadcasters and journalists, we were given official permission to access the hall."It was strictly for the purpose of reporting on the event for millions of people in the UK, who haven't been able to visit Westminster in person."The rules were that we would be quickly escorted around the edges to a platform at the back, in contrast, those paying respect walked along a carpeted area besides the coffin and were given time to pause."She went on to say that no broadcasters or journalists took anyone's place in the queue and "no one filed past the

Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine has shared a statement responding to a recent viral TikTok alleging that he had an affair.Earlier this week, Levine was accused in a TikTok video by Instagram model Sumner Stroh of having an affair with her. “At the time, I was young, I was naive, and, I mean, quite frankly, I feel exploited,” she said.“I was having an affair with a man who’s married to a Victoria’s Secret model,” the message began.Stroh went on to allege that she and Levine were in a relationship for a year, and that after they stopped seeing each other, Levine – who is expecting his third child with wife Behati Prinsloo – allegedly sent her a message saying: “OK serious question.

Wet Leg have covered Ashnikko for Spotify Singles – listen to their take on ‘Daisy’ below.The duo are currently on a US tour behind their self-titled debut album, which they recently restarted after cancelling a number of gigs due to “mental and physical health” issues.Discussing their Ashnikko cover, the band’s Hester Chambers said: “I remember going to stay with Rhian around the time we recorded ‘Chaise [Longue]’ with Jon McMullen and she had told me about this artist she’d been listening to loads. She sang and played ‘Daisy’ on the guitar in the morning while we had coffee.

Prince Harry didn't make the passing of his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, but that's what she would have "needed". Psychic medium Jasmine Rose Anderson claimed to the Daily Star she was able to channel the spirit of the late Queen to confirm this.When asked if her grandsons Prince William and Prine Harry knew it was going to happen, she said: "I feel they did know.

Playboy bunnies have lifted the lid on a show about life in the Mansion that was never broadcast, and admitted that one scene had been canned after producers deemed it “too risque”.Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt featured alongside Kendra Wilkinson in the Playboy Girls Next Door series that followed the lives of Hugh Hefner and his three prominent girlfriends in his lavish LA Mansion.The trio all eventually became dissatisfied with their lives with the tycoon, and have opened up about the dark side of living with Hefner in interviews since the entrepreneur died in 2017. READ MORE: Ex-Playmates felt 'used like meat' after grim orgies in Hefner's vibrator-filled bedroom Now, speaking on their Girls Next Level podcast, Holly and Bridget addressed a pilot episode of the reality series that was scrapped, which included a racy birthday party that was deemed inappropriate for television.“This party was actually a sex toy party,” Holly remembered, before explaining that the scene hadn’t been as X-rated as it had sounded.“This was more like a quaint tupperware party, but it was still deemed too risque for E!, because after the pilot was finished, they said we can never air this because we can’t show all these sex toys on the network.“We weren’t doing anything with them like I said, it was like a tupperware party or there would be like funny games with sex toys.”It isn’t the first time that Holly and Bridget have mentioned Hefner’s enjoyment of sex toys; in an earlier episode, Holly admitted that she had felt “used like meat” when she entered the mogul’s vibrator-laden bedroom for the first time.Despite this, the model admitted that, in this instance, the sex toys had been her idea.“You hire this company and they come and

Council bosses are set to meet union representatives in a last minute bid to stop strikes that could leave rubbish piling up around West Lothian.