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  • 4 days ago | news.sky.com | Connor Gillies

    Nigel Farage has a track record of noisy, messy campaign visits to Scotland. After being famously hounded out of an Edinburgh pub in 2013, on Monday came the Aberdeen media conference in a fish restaurant to the soundtrack of "Farage is a racist" chants outside from the small, but vocal crowd. "We've not had this (protests) for a long time," Mr Farage tells me while the cameras are setting up for our Sky News interview.

  • 1 week ago | news.sky.com | Connor Gillies

    The heartbroken mother of a Scottish teenager who vanished three weeks ago has told Sky News she fears he could have been "picked up in a car". Cole Cooper, 19, was last seen by an old school friend on Wednesday 7 May in the village of Longcroft near Falkirk. Prior to that, he was captured on CCTV a few days earlier after leaving a house party in the area. His mum, Wendy Stewart, 42, allowed Sky News into her home as she revealed the pain her family is enduring.

  • 1 week ago | msn.com | Connor Gillies

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

  • 1 week ago | news.sky.com | Connor Gillies

    Gayanne Potter is one of Britain's most recognisable voices - behind adverts for the likes of Estee Lauder, Apple, LBC radio, and B&Q. Now, an artificial intelligence (AI) version of her voice is being used on Scotland's nationalised train network, ScotRail. But the professional voiceover artist says she had no idea she had been transformed into a robot until a friend called her last week. "I was devastated, I was furious, I feel completely violated," she told Sky News.

  • 1 week ago | news.sky.com | Connor Gillies

    It's 8.34am on a Tuesday and Vanessa Paton is taking me on a tour of Glasgow's east end, where she has lived for almost 50 years. Half a mile away sits the newly opened taxpayer-funded facility, named The Thistle, where drug addicts can bring their heroin and cocaine, are handed clean needles and invited to inject under NHS medical supervision. The concept, a UK first, is controversial and costs £2.3m a year.

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Connor Gillies
Connor Gillies @ConnorGillies
28 Apr 25

A new addition to the Gillies clan. Back @SkyNews in a while. 🩷 https://t.co/X0bfsEfXO6

Connor Gillies
Connor Gillies @ConnorGillies
18 Apr 25

RT @SkyNews: The Godfather-style gang war gripping two major cities - with brutal attacks caught on camera Read more from Sky's Scotland c…

Connor Gillies
Connor Gillies @ConnorGillies
18 Apr 25

💥Scotland’s escalating gang war driven by ‘wannabe’ drug lords desperate to become the main man. 🎥 Mafia attacks being filmed in a game of goading. 🔺Ex-smuggler likens it to The Godfather film. 🔝Senior crime expert blames ‘vacuum of leadership’. 👉🏽https://t.co/oszJXaVYeE https://t.co/KjHq44EMTQ