Boris Johnson snubs Nicola Sturgeon invitation for talks this week in Scotland

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A woman has been injured after her car smashed into a tree on a Lanarkshire road.

Scots were left stunned yesterday as bizarre clouds formed over parts of the country in the midst of Storm Dudley.

Police have opened an investigation after a 29-year-old man was found dead at a property in Glasgow.

Miss Cleo, the popular television psychic whose commercials became iconic during the 1990s, is set to be the focus of an upcoming documentary.The documentary, produced by the nonfiction entertainment studio XTR and production company Majority, will explore the life and career of the alleged Jamaican shaman who rose to national prominence with the phrase “Call me now!” According to Deadline, Miss Cleo’s Psychic Reader’s Network raked in over $1 billion until the Federal Trade Commission brought charges against her in 2002, ultimately ending her career.Award-winning filmmaker Senain Khesghi, best known for her work on films such as Project Kashmir and The Diplomat, will direct the documentary about the late Miss Cleo (born Youree Dell Harris), who died in 2016 at the age of 53 after a bout with cancer.“Youree Harris may have been an accomplice or perhaps a victim in the Psychic Reader’s Network fraud, but she also had talent and personality, which for women doesn’t always translate into access or wealth,” Kheshgi said in a statement. “Her story is an example of how brown and Black women have historically been marginalized and exotified in society and popular culture.

Jamie Lang Keshet International has boarded Darrel Bristow-Bovey and Anton Visser’s South African series “Paradys,” selected as a finalist for next month’s Series Mania Co-Pro Pitching Sessions. Keshet international joins Quizzical Pictures as a production partner and will handle global distribution of the finished series.Described as a “tense, character-driven murder mystery,” the series is based on Orania, a real city in South Africa where, 25 years after apartheid, segregation still holds strong.

Zack Sharf Francis Ford Coppola went viral in 2019 after he was quoted calling Marvel movies “despicable” while supporting Martin Scorsese’s critical beliefs about comic book films hurting the film industry. Coppola later clarified that he wasn’t talking about Marvel movies specifically, saying it’s “despicable” how the film industry now values commerce over art.

Britain and the US have agreed to send more troops in as the Taliban's lightning advance through the country continues - gains that come only weeks before allied forces are due to withdraw. Taliban insurgents are now estimated to hold more than two-thirds of Afghanistan and continue to press their offensive, having taken the country's second and third largest cities, Kandahar and Herat, as part of a week-long blitz.

East Ayrshire Council, said that even the best part of four decades on from the Miners’ Strike, the communities still feel the pain that saw New Cumnock reduced to a shell of its former glory.So the Prime Minister's quip to Scottish journalists that ‘thanks to Margaret Thatcher, who closed so many coal mines across the country, we had a big early start and we're now moving rapidly away from coal altogether’, was met with real anger.Cllr McMahon, who was one of many who took part in and was arrested on the picket lines in 1984, said: “The contempt that he has treated the coal mining communities is beyond me.”“I despised Margaret Thatcher and everything she stood for.

Downing Street as the Prime Minister drafted plans to cut benefits. Two works of art purchased through the Government Art Collection fund, which is bolstered by the taxpayers, now adorn Boris Johnson's residence in London.

Boris Johnson has reportedly said he would return to holiday in Scotland "over my dead body" after almost being swept out to sea while paddleboarding last year.

Thatcher made a “big early start” to tackling climate change when she closed so many mines. Speaking to journalists, Johnson was speaking about the environment and whether a timetable should be set for ending oil and gas exploration.He responded: “Look at what we’ve done already.

Prime Minister said it was “thanks” to Margaret Thatcher the mines were shut and chuckled as he said it during a two-day visit to Scotland. He claimed that the former PM had given the UK an " early star t" in the shift away from fossil fuels by closing pits.

Nicola Sturgeon has slammed Boris Johnson for his "crass and deeply insensitive" joke about Margaret Thatcher shutting coal mines. The Prime Minister is currently touring Scotland and made the quip after visiting the Moray East offshore windfarm where he discussed ending oil and gas exploration.Talking to reporters afterwards, he was pressed on whether he wanted to set a firm deadline to transition away from oil and gas.He said: “We understand the importance to the north-east of Scotland of the oil and gas industry."The contracts that have been signed should not be just be ripped up.

Margaret Thatcher the mines closed and chuckled as he said it. Ex Labour MSP Neil Findlay said: “Boris Johnson finding the plight of the industrial communities that were decimated by Thatcher’s assault amusing tells you everything you need to know about his mentality."Johnson is in Scotland this week to talk up the UK's work on climate change on the eve of Glasgow hosting cop26.At a media briefing, he was asked about setting a timetable for ending oil and gas exploration.He responded: “Look at what we’ve done already.

a two day visit to Scotland, insisted the best way to tackle poverty was to help more people into work. Analysis by the respected Joseph Rowntree Foundation suggests that cutting Universal Credit by £20 per week back to its pre-pandemic level was the single biggest drop in benefits since the welfare state was established in 1948.

covid pandemic. The Tory Prime Minister wants to focus on getting as many people across the country vaccinated as possible in order to allow for a full economic recovery.

Labour Party leader made separate visits to Scotland yesterday and will continue their tours today. Both leaders will tour renewable energy projects three months ahead of the international climate gathering.Global leaders will attend the summit, to be held from October 31 to November 12, in what is seen as a critical moment for the future of the planet.

Nicola Sturgeon. The First Minister wrote to Johnson earlier this week inviting him to Bute House in Edinburgh to discuss covid pandemic recovery.

Labour leader made it clear he is willing to talk with Sturgeon on anything but the independence question. In a Daily Record interview the Starmer accused the SNP of a “huge failure on the climate crisis”, saying that only one in 20 of the offshore wind jobs the Scottish government promised a decade ago have actually materialised.

Boris Johnson's next trip north in a bid to not offend him, according to reports. Cops in Scotland named the security assignment "Operation Bunter", however it has been switched after concerns were raised within the force.The name of the operation echoed the fictional overweight schoolboy Billy Bunter.

covidtraffic light system this week, which could see countries like Spain shifted into a tougher “amber watch list” category where they could change to the red list at short notice. Senior UK Government Ministers are divided over whether to press ahead with the amber watch list plan, which was said to have been approved last week.Scottish and Welsh government Ministersusually consult with and follow the same travel advice as the UK government.

Carrie Symonds managed to expertly disguise her growing baby bump at several events in recent weeks.

referendum could be held “if there is a settled will” for one.

Tory chancellor has challenged Boris Johnson to end quarantine rules for certain countries amid claims that the UK has tougher measures in place than other European countries, which is affecting jobs. Ahead of a meeting of UK Ministers on Thursday to discuss travel rules for August, the chancellor has said holidaymakers face uncertainty while stricter measures are also having an impact on the economy.

UK Government will not stand in the way of an independence referendum forever, according to Boris Johnson’s most senior Scottish cabinet minister. Michael Gove – who heads Downing Street’s so-called Union Unit – said that if there is a “settled will” for a rerun of the 2014 vote, then “one will occur”.

Boris Johnson is expecting a second child with his wife, Carrie Johnson, after she sadly suffered a miscarriage last year. The PM and Carrie Symonds, 33, who wed at Westminster Cathedral at the beginning of the year, welcomed their first child together, Wildfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson, in April 2020.

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miscarriage earlier this year. Carrie, 33, shared their news on social media on Saturday.

Carrie Johnson has shared some beautiful news – she is expecting her second child with husband Boris Johnson this December.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie are expecting their second child together. Carrie announced the happy news as she shared a photo of a sweet Christmas bauble in the shape of a push chair on her Instagram.