Good evening and welcome to today's Daily Record headline briefing. The rundown keeps you up to date with the latest news from Scotland and beyond.
Today's top headlines include: Energy bills to rise more than 80% from October, woman bravely shares cancer symptom that led to diagnosis and Sean Connery's wife stages secret send off.
Here is everything you need to know to keep up to date.
Protesters descend on Ofgem Glasgow offices after huge energy bill price hike
Ofgem has confirmed an 80 per cent rise in the energy price cap, sending the average household’s yearly bill to £3,549 from October. The cap will come into effect for around 24 million households in England, Scotland and Wales on default energy tariffs on October 1, and will remain in place until December 31, when it will be adjusted again.
Ofgem’ s chief executive Jonathan Brearley warned of the hardship energy prices will cause this winter and urged the incoming Prime Minister and new Cabinet “to provide an additional and urgent response to continued surging energy prices”.
The regulator said the increase reflected the continued rise in global wholesale gas prices, which began to surge as the world unlocked from the Covid pandemic, and had been driven still higher to record levels by Russia slowly switching off gas supplies to Europe.
'Heavy period saved my life' Scots pharmacist bravely shares symptom that led to cancer diagnosis
A Scots pharmacist has credited a heavy period for saving her life from cancer.
Victoria Lang has told how prolonged menstrual bleeding and bruising to helped her to identify the symptoms of Leukaemia. The 30-year-old realised something wasn’t quite right when she discovered she had some bad bruises that took a long time to heal, coupled with the onslaught of heavy bleeding.
They appeared about a month before her diagnosis - but she realised her state was way out of the norm when her time of the month was excessively burdening and with fresh blood. Victoria, from Banton in Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, was diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia at the age of 29.
Sean Connery's wife stages secret send off as icon taken on final trip around Scotland
Sean Connery‘s wife and family staged a celebration of his life to mark what would have been his 92nd birthday yesterday.
Wife Micheline, 93, and other family members attended a lavish event at the Dalmeny Estate near Edinburgh after arriving in Scotland in a specially hired luxury train. It is believed his family have spent the last three days scattering Connery’s ashes around the country at his favourite spots.
The entourage arrived aboard the privately hired Royal Scotsman train, owned by the Louis Vuitton group, yesterday morning at Edinburgh’s Waverley Station. A source told the Daily Record: “I couldn’t believe it when I saw Micheline and her party step off the train.
Two m en in court accused of murdering Scots dad by blunt force and stealing bank card to buy beer
Two men appeared in court today charged on petition with murdering a father by "blunt force" at his home in Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, and stealing his bank card to buy beer.
Mark Connor, 49, and Stewart Muircroft, 41, are alleged to have assaulted Allan West, 67, at his home in Bowhouse Road, Grangemouth, on Monday, August 22
The pair are accused of "repeatedly [striking] him on the head and body with articles, which caused blunt force trauma and fractures to his head and body in consequence of which he died" in the alleged incident. They are facing a charge of murder.
Bargain Fife house on sale for £40k - but it's swamped with beer cans and rubbish
House-hunters looking for a prospective bargain on the market could do a lot worse than a two-bed home in Glenrothes on the market for £40,000. The terraced villa, on Alexander Road in the Fife town, is described as having "excellent potential in a popular residential setting".
It is well placed, with local amenities like the Kingdom Shopping Centre, a primary school and the local bus station all within walking distance. It all sounds very lucrative, and has the makings of a proper steal. There's just one catch - the house is covered in rubbish.
Auction House Scotland has shared images of the cut-price homestead online before it goes to auction next week. From the outside, the tan-coloured terrace looks perfectly ordinary but heading inside reveals that it is in need of some serious TLC.
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