Jonathan Blackburn

The Irn-Bru Carnival is a proper Glasgow tradition. Every Glaswegian has visited, probably several times, as did their grannies and likely their grannies before them over the past 105 years.

Adam Croke, 23, says the falling sandstone from a baluster "sounded like a bomb" as it smashed into the pavement on Queen Street just inches from where he was standing.

Cambuslang-born director Iain Gardner's film tells the true story of Wojtek the bear, an orphaned Syrian bear adopted by Polish soldiers during the Second World War before coming to Scotland.

"I think I would be dead if I was stood not even half a metre to the left."

Officers said a 43-year-old man was approached by another man on Hillhouse Road in Hamilton. The man demanded his vehicle keys and then assaulted him during the incident on Friday evening.

Scott McFadden, 38, from Port Glasgow, was a passenger in the Volkswagen Golf that struck a parked and unoccupied Peugeot car on Clune Brae. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Lennox McGhee, now 19, has been jailed for the rape of a 15-year-old girl in woods in East Kilbride in 2022. It has now emerged McGhee escaped prosecution over a sex attack in 2020.

Jamie Lucas, 33, was found injured on Stirling Street in Airdrie and was taken to Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital but sadly died a short time later. A 21-year-old man has been arrested.

The A82 was closed for almost an hour in both directions earlier this afternoon near Balloch. In Balloch, two screenings at Itison Drive-in Movies have been cancelled.

The southbound carriageway is closed at junction 2 at Rutherglen, with traffic camera images showing long tailbacks and bumper-to-bumper standstill traffic after a multi-vehicle collision.