An amateur theatre company has been told it cannot perform a stage version of BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? after it was deemed “demeaning to women and outdated”.

The number of ScotRail trains skipping stops – one of passengers’ greatest bugbears – has increased to as many as 20 a day.

Nicola Sturgeon’s economic record will be attacked ahead of the Scottish budget, with the Conservatives claiming Scotland is heading for the lowest level of growth in the developed world.

It was a result that made headlines far and wide but now that the teams are about to square up again, Hearts manager Craig Levein would prefer to keep matters as 
low-key as possible.

Richie Ramsay posted the clubhouse target in the final round of the Omega Dubai Desert Classic after signing off with a brilliant eight-under-par 64 - beating his previous best score at Emirates Golf Club by five shots.

Some people lie about their first time. For instance, the first album they bought. They’ll claim it was something impossibly hip and incredibly dangerous like the Velvet Underground’s debut when in fact the platter was Everything’s Archie by the Archies, purchased from Woolies with a record token, the prize for the best Bible reading at Sunday School.