Scottish Labour has announced its candidate for the upcoming council by-election. Barrhead mum and lifelong resident Julie Ann McHale has been selected by the party to contest the vote on August 21.

Concern has been expressed over the siting of a loyalist bonfire close to an electricity substation in Belfast. The location of the towering pyre is also close to two major Belfast hospitals.

Betty Brown, 92, from County Durham, ran the Annfield Plain Post Office with her late husband when the faulty Horizon software was introduced.