2020: Last News

Lawyers for Dua Lipa have said that a lawsuit claiming that her 2020 hit ‘Levitating’ rips off an earlier song is “speculative”, “vague” and “devoid of a shred of factual detail”. And if that sounds familiar, it’s similar to the criticism Dua Lipa’s lawyers made of another lawsuit also accusing her of ripping off an earlier song when writing ‘Levitating’.Because, yes, ‘Levitating’ is subject to two concurrent song-theft lawsuits, which is fun.

A woman caught smuggling drugs into a Scottish prison and giving them to her "career criminal" boyfriend amid fears he'd kill her if she didn't has been spared jail. Lyndsey Lamont claims she took cocaine worth £800 into HMP Greenock, in Inverclyde, because she'd been pressured by Stuart Sharp.

Donald Trump did draw the media spotlight for his presidential announcement speech on Tuesday, but the networks varied in how they approached the event, carrying parts of it and cutting away at others.

Gwyneth Paltrow gushed this week that she adores Kim Kardashian and is open to collaborating with her in the future.Kim is the figurehead of multiple companies including her shapewear line SKIMS, while Gwyneth is the founder and CEO of the 'wellness' brand Goop.'I love her,' Gwyneth, 50, spilled to E! when the subject of Kim, 42, was raised. 'I think she's a fantastic person and she's a real force of nature.'  'I have a lot of respect for her': Gwyneth Paltrow (left) gushed this week that she adores Kim Kardashian (right) and is open to collaborating with her in the futureThe idea of working with Kim is 'good food for thought,' Gwyneth said, adding: 'I have a lot of respect for her and yeah, I would do anything she wanted.'Kim has spun her reality TV stardom into a number of enterprises including her skincare line SKKN, as well as beauty and fragrance businesses.

A brother and sister who organised a joint plot to kill the sister's former lover over a text row have had their murder appeals rejected. Siblings Aaron and Melissa Stubbs saw their appeals, alongside those of their fellow conspirators Stephen Strutt and Peter Walker, thrown out for the murder of Warren Glover.

A two-year-old boy tragically died due to the black mould in his home deemed "unfit for human habitation", an inquest has heard. Awaab Ishak had celebrated his second birthday just a week before died from a respiratory condition in December 2020, Manchester Evening News reports.

A French Holocaust denier living in Scotland has been arrested after fleeing authorities across the channel in the wake of being convicted under anti-Nazi laws. After a two year search, Vincent Reynouard was arrested in Fife on Thursday.

Scots Labour leader Anas Sarwar will today unveil plans to cut mortgage bills for homeowners struggling with spiralling interest rates.

A bungling gangster launched a firework attack on a gangland killer’s car – but missed and hit a neighbour’s house. Lee Liddle poured petrol inside Derek Felvus’s Range Rover while an accomplice lit and fired a rocket but missed the vehicle.

Hailey Bieber highlighted her particularly plump lips in a recent Instagram Stories clip, which led to a new wave of speculation from fans who wondered if she had gotten lip injections. In a video making its way across social media, the 25-year-old model posed for the camera to show off her lustrous lips while advertising her Rhode peptide lip treatment.But a post from Dana Omari, a popular Instagram influencer who regularly discusses celebrity cosmetic surgery transformations on her @igfamousbydana account, highlighted the fullness of Hailey's lips and suggested that she may have used lip fillers, though the wife of Justin Bieber vehemently denied having used filters in 2020. Suspiciously large: Hailey Bieber's particularly plump lips in a recent video led social media users to wonder if she had gotten lip injections, despite her previous denials Budding beauty mogul: The model was promoting the new lip treatment from her Rhode line Hailey was dressed in a low-key fashion with a gray hoodie, which put the spotlight on her elegantly made up face.She put on a modest pout, while her lips, which appeared to have the new peptide lip treatment applied, gleamed in the light.  Though she acknowledged Hailey's denials about lip fillers, she included screenshots from the closeup clip that appeared to show a swollen line of skin extending past the redder part of Hailey's lip, which she called a 'filler mustache' and suggested was evidence of injections gone awry.'This is filler outsider her lip line,' Omari speculated while pointing out the line or raised skin, adding, 'Either the filler was poorly placed outside her lips when trying to define them or the filler has migrated.

Dionne Warwick has said a little prayer that she will be next to date lothario Pete Davidson.The 81-year-old legend took to Instagram on Monday to declare that she wants to be the next person to date the 28-year-old SNL funnyman after the ex of Kim Kardashian was romantically linked to Emily Ratjkowski.Dionne took to her Twitter to simply share with her 602K followers: 'I will be dating Pete Davidson next.' Manifesting: Dionne Warwick has said a little prayer that she will be next to date lothario Pete Davidson Dionne took to her Twitter to simply share with her 602K followers: 'I will be dating Pete Davidson next'It seems as if the I Say A Little Prayer hitmaker took offense to many users questioning if she actually posted that tweet as an hour later she shared a self taken video with the caption: 'If you are new here.'In the clip Dionne said: 'Well, huh, so there's still some nonbelievers huh? Well I want you to believe this, I am Dionne Warwick and I tweet. 'Yes I do, and I want y'all to stop thinking I don't okay. Do yourselves a favor alright now, I want you to stop it.

It was a true Grand Canyon State nail biter but Katie Hobbs prevailed over former TV anchor and Donald Trump acolyte Kari Lake in the race to be Arizona’s next governor, NBC and CNN projected on Monday.

Alex Salmond’s trial lawyer has been hit with a five-month suspension after he named the former First Minister’s accusers on a train. But Gordon Jackson KC has been given permission to appeal after the sanction by a Faculty of Advocates committee.

Well, this doesn’t look good for Margot Robbie‘s future with Disney…

Springside Post Office has reopened its doors for the first time in more than two years.

A heartbroken Lanarkshire mum has slammed Scotland’s sentencing laws after her son’s hit-and-run killer avoided prison because he was under-25.

Gone too soon. Very Cavallari may not have been on the air for long — but it certainly left a lasting impression.

State Pension provides essential financial support every four weeks for more than 12.5 million people across the UK, including 981,399 living in Scotland. This regular payment of up to £185.15 per week for the Full, new State Pension or £141.85 per week for the basic old State Pension (Category A or B) is available for those who have reached the UK Government’s eligible retirement age, which increased to 66 for both men and women in October 2020.

Megan Thee Stallion and Big Sean have settled the song-theft lawsuit that was filed against them earlier this year in which they were accused of ripping off an earlier track on their 2020 collaboration ‘Go Crazy’.It was Detroit-based rappers Duawn Payne and Harrell James who filed the lawsuit in July, claiming that ‘Go Crazy’ lifted elements of their 2012 song ‘Krazy’.In fact, they said in their legal filing, “an average lay observer would recognise the infringing work as having been appropriated from [‘Krazy’] because of the striking similarity between the two compositions and the way in which they are performed”.They reckoned it was probably Big Sean that had been exposed to their earlier track, because he is also from Detroit. And while ‘Krazy’ never had a full release, Payne and James insisted that it was widely played in the clubs and bars of West Detroit where Big Sean was known to hang out at the time.

The BBC and A24 are teaming for an adaptation of Douglas Stuart’s 2020 Booker Prize-winning novel Snuggie Bain.

Italian writer, journalist and political commentator Roberto Saviano is due to head to court in Rome on Tuesday (November 15) for the first hearing in a defamation trial brought against him by Italy’s newly installed, right-wing prime minister Giorgia Meloni.