Fresh from her Glastonbury headlining slot, Charli XCX also makes it into the top 10 best selling albums of the year ...

AYRSHIRE singer songwriter Scott Nicol performed live in the Irvine Beat FM Studio this week. He joined Ronnie McGhie at the station for the breakfast show to promote his latest single Drive, which ...

THE opening date has been revealed for the new Starbucks franchise in Irvine. The global coffee giant is set to open its Riverway retail park store on Thursday, July 3. Customers will officially be ...

JUST one of Labour's four Ayrshire MPs rebelled against the government in last night's debate on the controversial Welfare Reform Bill. North Ayrshire and Arran MP Irene Campbell voted against her ...

Hamas has suggested it is open to a ceasefire agreement with Israel but insisted on its longstanding position that any deal must bring an end to the war in Gaza.

There will be “financial consequences” to Sir Keir Starmer’s last-minute climbdown on welfare reform, a Cabinet minister has said, as he declined to rule out tax rises. Pat McFadden said that ...

A 28-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of pregnant mother-of-two Sarah Montgomery in Co Down. Zak Hughes, from Ardglen Place in Belfast, was also charged with child ...

THE TSB name could disappear from Ayrshire's high streets following the sale of the business. The banking chain, which has branches in Kilmarnock, Ayr and Irvine, has been taken over by rival ...

Peter Murrell, the former SNP chief executive who is Nicola Sturgeon’s estranged husband, has been granted legal aid. Murrell, who faces a charge of embezzlement, has had an application for solemn ...

Ministers are going to “have to work harder” to bring down small boat crossings, a member of Sir Keir Starmer’s Cabinet has said amid record numbers in the first half of this year.

Iran’s president has ordered the country to suspend its co-operation with the International Atomic Energy Agency after US and Israeli air strikes hit its most-important nuclear facilities.

Energy watchdog Ofgem has launched an investigation after a report found a fire that caused the shutdown of Heathrow Airport was due to a preventable technical fault.