📸: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have spent the early afternoon at St Andrews University, where they met 20 years ago.
▶️They’ve been painting love hearts and taking in dance classes
🎥 2000 staff are being recruited in Dundee and Glasgow to help deliver new benefits in Scotland
🗣
@nicolasturgeon
visited the new Social Security Scotland HQ this morning
🎥
@nicolasturgeon
is attempting to drive home the both votes SNP message this weekend
@thesnp
leader has unveiled new campaign buses which are touring Scotland
Speaking at a farmers market in Perth - she says voting SNP will keep the country on track
🎥: A deaf girl from Fife’s wildest dreams have come true after she got sign her favourite song with
@LewisCapaldi
10-year-old Niamdh Braid from Glenrothes performed Someone You Loved back stage at Belladrum Festival on Saturday!
She sat down with our reporter
@callums_clark
The River South Esk in Brechin has burst its banks.
Angus Council has previously said the river's flood defences are designed to deal with levels of 3.8m, but the water could reach 5m.
📹Megan Morton
#StormBabet
🗣️ “I’ve lived here for 18 years, I know the pulse of this city. I know the passion of the fans.”
⚽️🎥 Our reporter
@DaleEaton_
spoke to new
@DundeeFC
manager Tony Docherty this afternoon.
🎥: MORE 👇
Painting ❤️
Watching 💃
Planting a 🌲
▶️ Prince William and Kate have returned to St Andrews University for the first time in a decade, the year they got married.
🎙Listen:
BREAKING: Tom Daley and his partner Matty Lee have just won Britain's second gold of Tokyo 2020 in the men's synchronised 10-metre platform.
It is Tom Daley's first gold medal in his fourth Olympic Games.
X Factor host
@radioleary
says he’s a big fan of the
@VADundee
. The presenter was revealing the nominees for the 2019 national television awards - his first visit to the city.
⛳️ Pop star Niall Horan has partnered with the R&A to launch a new initiative aimed at getting more people to learn to play golf.
🏌️The Golf. Golf pilot launched this afternoon in St Andrews.
🎥 Our reporter
@DaleEaton_
spoke to the singer and Phil Anderton from the R&A.
🎥 At the start of the
#sp21
election campaign -
@nicolasturgeon
says there are 2 key questions facing voters.
🗣Our political correspondent
@political_alans
also asked the SNP leader about issues of trust👇
🎥: Scottish Conservative Interim Leader Jackson Carlaw tells our reporter
@callums_clark
he’s ready to take the fight to SNP.
Doesn’t give any predictions on how many seats he thinks they can win in December.
📹The First Minister is strongly condemning the disorder that took place in parts of Scotland on Bonfire Night.
🎇Fireworks and petrol bombs were thrown at officers in the Niddrie area of Edinburgh.
🚓Bricks were also hurled at police vehicles in the Kikrton area of Dundee 👇🏻
CAN YOU HELP? There’s concern for a 15-year-old Perthshire boy who has failed to return from school today. Brandon Knight was last spotted at Tesco in Blairgowrie. Anyone with information should call 101.
🎥: “The Scottish Government is working hard... to make sure we are prepared for it.”
▶️ The First Minister tells Tay News measures are in place for a
#CoronavirusOutbreak
in Scotland.
🎥 Unite The Union members and supporters took to the streets of Dundee this afternoon in a peaceful action against MacMerry 300 in a campaign to improve the treatment of workers across the industry.
👉🏼 We spoke to MSP Mercedes Villalba and Tam Wilson from Better Than Zero.
“My overwhelming emotion about guys like Jeremy Clarkson is pity”
@NicolaSturgeon
has hit back at a column written by the presenter in which he says he hates the First Minister
She’s describing his comments about Meghan Markle as “beyond the pale”
🎥Day two of the
@dunhilllinks
is well underway.
🏌️♀️ Actress Kathryn Newton began her competition in Carnoustie yesterday.
🗣️ She caught up with our reporter
@DaleEaton_
after her round.
#dunhilllinks
️⚽️20 minutes after kick off and some tartan army fans are still waiting to get into Hampden.
Queues remain at the turnstiles as staff try to carry out necessary checks 👇
🎥: “It really felt like they were coming back to somewhere they knew well.”
▶️ The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been speaking to students at St Andrews University, 20 years after they first met at the Fife institution 👇
🗣️ “Enough is enough, we’re fed up, we’re demoralised”
Members of
@RCNScot
have taken their fight for a better pay offer to the Scottish Parliament.
They’re being balloted on industrial action for the first time in the union’s 106 year history 👇🏼
@dundeeunitedfc
WATCH 🎥: Dundee United fans line up outside the club's ticket office.
Many have been here overnight and braved the rain 🌧
The Tangerines face St Mirren in the Premiership play-off this week across two legs ⚽
Hundreds of officers line Carnoustie high street as they pay tribute to PC Dean Morrison, who lost his life last month in what police say was a tragic accident.
🖼️ The Dennis the Mennace themed outfit worn by
@elliediamond101
on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is now on display at The McManus Art Gallery
🎥 Our reporter
@DaleEaton_
spoke with the drag star about what it’s like to have it added to a display looking at cultural icons from the city
🎥 Tackling the climate emergency is the focus for
@AnasSarwar
today as he unveils “Green Labour”
🗣The
@ScottishLabour
leader has been telling
@political_alanS
why voters should back their climate credentials over the Scottish Greens 👇
“For any human being to be so glib and crass about human life is profoundly shocking”
@NicolaSturgeon
responds to comments reportedly made by Boris Johnson “no more ****ing lockdowns - let the bodies pile high in their thousands”
No.10 describes the report as “just another lie”
🎧⚽️Lawrence Shankland insists he WON'T be leaving Dundee Utd before the transfer window shuts tomorrow night.
Tangerines boss Robbie Neilson's delighted with his striker's decision. He's been speaking to our Sports Editor
@dgallowaymedia
.
🎥: First Minister
@NicolaSturgeon
is in Dundee for the official opening of the £32m Regional Performance Centre at Caird Park.
▶️ She describes it as “cutting edge in so many ways.”
🎥⚽️ Watch : “He’s got a magnificent work ethic”.
Tony Docherty’s delighted to land Partick Thistle winger
@tiffs7
who’ll join the Dees this weekend on a 2 year contract.
🗣️ Speaking to our sports editor
@DGallowaySport
👨🚒Firefighters gathered in Dundee’s City Square to protest cuts to the Scottish Fire and Rescue service
🚒 That will see one of two appliances removed from the Kingsway East Station
🎥 We’re hearing from Johnnie Williamson from the station and Colin Brown from the FBU
Dundee’s brand new £38 million railway station is officially open! City development executive director, Mike Galloway made this speech.
@DundeeCouncil
@ScotRail
Alba MSP Ash Regan’s launching plans for a referendum on whether the Scottish Parliament should have the power to legislate for and negotiate independence.
She wants to introduce a bill at Holyrood.
We’ve been speaking with
@AlbaParty
leader
@AlexSalmond
👇
🏒 New
@DundeeStars
boss Marc Lefebvre says he’s “extremely excited” to return to the club for a second spell
🗣️ He’s been talking to our reporter
@DaleEaton_
.
@AbertayUni
and
@FifeFlyers
launch a new partnership: it’ll benefit both sides in many ways- including sending two new players to study a masters, while giving some students work experience and placement opportunities. Our reporter
@hazelreporting
went along to find out more.
🎥 🏌️♀️Celebs have been paired up with the pros in the
@dunhilllinks
at St Andrews, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns.
Star of TV drama Big Little Lies,
@kathrynnewton
, is taking part for the 1st time. She’s been speaking to our Sports Editor
@DGallowaySport
.
#DunhillLinks
🎥🏌️♂️He’s got a new solo album out called Midpoint. Now, after having a great time at the
@dunhilllinks
,
@tomchaplin
’s all ready to go on tour.
But will
@keaneofficial
get back together sometime ?
Tom spoke to our Sports Editor
@DGallowaySport
.
🦅 A bronze statue has been unveiled in Broughty Ferry honouring war hero pigeon Winkie
🎖️The bird was awarded a Dickin Medal after it flew over 100 miles home to Broughty Ferry to raise the alarm about four missing crew after the Beaufort bomber crashed in the North Sea in 1942
👑King Charles has arrived in Tomintoul- the highest village in the Highlands.
🥁He’s been welcomed by local school children and a pipe band, with around 250 people lining the streets to see him.
📹His Majesty’s hearing about a local £3.3 million energy efficiency project.
🗣️ “If you’ve been arrested for something as serious as that I don’t think you should be in office, you should be suspended.”
🎥 Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Angela Rayner spoke to our reporter
@DaleEaton_
following the arrest of SNP treasurer Colin Beattie.
🎥
@ScottishLabour
’s focusing on rewarding the care sector in the
#SP21
campaign trail today.
➡️
@AnasSarwar
says starting wages would be £12 per hour rising to £15 per hour👇🏻
🚨A video from River Street in Brechin, which is living up to its name this morning.
It's as Angus Council warns we're in the middle of a very serious emergency with flooding in the area reaching unprecedented levels.
#StormBabet
CAN YOU HELP? There’s concern for a 15-year-old Perthshire boy who has failed to return from school today. Brandon Knight was last spotted at Tesco in Blairgowrie. Anyone with information should call 101.
🎥🏌️♂️Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres is back at the
@dunhilllinks
for a 17th time.
🗣️The American rocker spoke to our reporter
@DaleEaton_
after a windy day in Carnoustie.
#dunhilllinks
🚨Angus council has confirmed it is evacuating people in the Monifieth area after the Dighty Burn burst it’s banks.
They will be relocated to a rest centre in Dundee.
#StormBabet
🎥:
@ScotTories
Leader Douglas Ross
@Douglas4Moray
says the only way to stop another independence referendum is to vote Conservative in the Holyrood election.
He kicked off their campaign in Aberdeen this morning👇
🔊 MORE:
🗣“For Scotland this represents the definitive end for coal…these just transitions can be done.”
🎥
@NicolaSturgeon
tells
@BryanRutherford
we should be “inspired” to move away from fossil fuels after pressing the button to demolish Longannet Power Station’s chimney stack👇
“We’ve seen a huge decrease in homophonic bullying”- Dundee’s
@DownfieldPS
has become the first primary in Scotland to receive an LGBTI Charter award following work to improve equality and diversity within the school.
🏒
@DundeeStars
have re-signed
@Kris_Inglis11
for a 4th campaign in ice hockey's Elite League.
It means that Head Coach Omar Pacha has successfully retained all his Dundee born and trained players from last season.
#DundeeStars
#EIHL
⚽️ James McPake's been honoured for leading Dundee back to the top flight. He's been named the Glens Vodka Championhip manager of the year. The Dees beat Kilmarnock 4-2 on aggregate in the play-off final to return to the Premiership after a two year absence
🥇Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist
@EilishMccolgan
is back in Dundee meeting primary school pupils at an after school athletics club.
🏃♀️The club is funded by the athletes Giving Back To Track project.
🎥 The record breaking runner and a pupil spoke to our reporter
@DaleEaton_
🎥 “That menu should be devised by the great chefs of Scotland”
🗣
@AlexSalmond
has been setting out the
@AlbaParty
five point plan to tackle child poverty
It includes a pledge for free school meals for all nursery, primary and secondary pupils👇
Jordan Cownie has committed to a third year with Dundee Stars.
The 23-year-old forward will return for the 2019/20 season.
In the last campaign, the centreman made 68 appearances and netted 16 goals, as well as creating 21 more.
#GameofThrones
star
@Maisie_Williams
is in St Andrews speaking to uni students about her app Daisie, which supports aspiring artists.
The actor who plays Arya Stark in the hugely popular series says she hopes it will allow everyone to showcase their talents.
🏒 Our reporter
@DaleEaton_
caught up with new
@DundeeStars
Head Coach and General Manager Jeff Mason this afternoon at the DIA.
🎥 🥅 Watch as he talks us through the teams summer recruitment, Drydn Dow’s move to Player-Assistant and looking ahead to pre-season.
🎥 Hundreds of firefighters line Edinburgh’s Royal Mile ahead of Barry Martin’s funeral service at St Giles Cathedral.
He died last month after being injured tackling a blaze at the former Jenners building.
🎥 Dundee United fan Wayne Brown has spent the past nine months constructing a Subbuteo replica of Tannadice Park.
🗣 He spoke to our reporter
@DaleEaton_
about his project.
⬇️ Any current or former United players fancy a game?