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Edition No. 47 · Thursday, April 2, 2026

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Today’s outlook: Deep space, deep sea, deep talent — today's edition goes to eleven

Scientists Just Confirmed a Black Hole That Shouldn't Exist — and Glasgow Helped Catch It
Science

Scientists Just Confirmed a Black Hole That Shouldn't Exist — and Glasgow Helped Catch It

LIGO data reveals 'forbidden' intermediate-mass black holes for the first time, with Glasgow's world-leading gravitational wave lab at the heart of the discovery

Somewhere in the distant universe, two colossal black holes — each so massive they should never have existed — spiralled into one another and became something even more impossible: a single black hole 225 times the mass of our Sun.

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Adolescence Leads, Andor Follows: The Race for BAFTA's Most Prestigious TV Sound Prize Begins
Audio Film & TV

Adolescence Leads, Andor Follows: The Race for BAFTA's Most Prestigious TV Sound Prize Begins

As the BAFTA TV Craft Awards ceremony approaches on 26 April, we preview the Sound: Fiction and Sound: Factual categories — where single-take intimacy meets galactic-scale spectacle.

When the BAFTA Television Craft Awards take place on Sunday 26 April, the Sound: Fiction category will pit two of the most technically audacious television productions of the past year against each other. In one corner: Adolescence, the Netflix single-take drama whose sound team had to capture every whisper and scream across hour-long unbroken takes. In the other: Andor, the Disney+ Star Wars series whose designers built an immersive sonic universe from scratch in Dolby Atmos.

It is a genuinely fascinating contest — and one that says a great deal about where the craft of television sound stands in 2026.

Director Philip Barantini's four-part limited series was filmed entirely in single continuous shots — no cuts, no pick-ups, no second chances. For the sound department, that meant no punch-ins, no room to fix a fluffed line in isolation, and no opportunity to reset gain between scenes.

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Laughs for a Good Cause: Clydebank Actors Raise £200 for Men's Shed With Comedy Play
Community Clydebank

Laughs for a Good Cause: Clydebank Actors Raise £200 for Men's Shed With Comedy Play

Brian Mooney and Alan Hendry staged their own Scottish comedy to support one of the town's most cherished community projects

It takes a certain kind of nerve to write your own play, perform it on stage, and donate the proceeds to charity. Brian Mooney and Alan Hendry have it in spades.

The two Clydebank actors recently staged Takin' Chances, their own warm and witty Scottish comedy, at the Fort Theatre in Bishopbriggs — and raised more than £200 for Clydebank Men's Shed in the process.

The play tells the story of two slightly bored retired pals who find themselves caught up in an impromptu art exhibition involving fake paintings and an unexpected trip to Spain, where chaos, confusion, and surprises await. If the premise sounds like a couple of mates egging each other on into something daft, that's rather the point.

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Hollywood Grew Up in Drumchapel: How One Glasgow Estate Shaped James McAvoy, Hugh Keevins, and a Remarkable Generation
News Glasgow

Hollywood Grew Up in Drumchapel: How One Glasgow Estate Shaped James McAvoy, Hugh Keevins, and a Remarkable Generation

From a council estate on the ridge of the horse came actors, footballers, comedians, and writers — and the community that made them

It is not every neighbourhood that can claim to have produced both a Hollywood A-lister and Scotland's most passionate football pundit. But Drumchapel — "The Drum" to those who know it — has never been every neighbourhood.

James McAvoy and Hugh Keevins share a connection to the sprawling Glasgow estate. McAvoy, the X-Men and Atonement star, was raised there by his maternal grandparents after his parents separated. Keevins, the unmistakable voice of Scottish football on Clyde Superscoreboard, knows the same streets and the same culture from the inside.

Two very different men. Two very different kinds of fame. One postcode.

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Scientists Dive Into Scotland's Deep-Sea Trenches — and Find 40 Species Nobody Has Ever Seen Before
Science

Scientists Dive Into Scotland's Deep-Sea Trenches — and Find 40 Species Nobody Has Ever Seen Before

A landmark survey of the Rockall Trough and Faroe-Shetland Channel has uncovered a hidden world of bioluminescent invertebrates, giant sea spiders, and three entirely new genera of deep-sea fish — all lurking in Scottish waters.

Somewhere in the cold, crushing darkness of the Rockall Trough — more than a thousand metres beneath the waves that batter Scotland's Atlantic coast — a camera mounted on a remotely operated vehicle picked up something nobody had ever seen before.

It was a fish. Small, pale, moving with the unhurried grace of a creature that has never known sunlight. And it belonged to an entirely new genus.

That moment was just the beginning. A landmark deep-sea census led by the Marine Biological Association and the University of Aberdeen has now confirmed the discovery of more than 40 previously unknown species in Scottish waters, including three new genera of deep-sea fish, a suite of bioluminescent invertebrates, and a new species of giant sea spider.

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