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Edition No. 95 · Sunday, October 4, 2026

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Today’s outlook: Red carpets, red squirrels and a clear run to Jupiter

I Swear leads BAFTA Scotland nominations with seven nods ahead of Glasgow ceremony
News Scotland

I Swear leads BAFTA Scotland nominations with seven nods ahead of Glasgow ceremony

The John Davidson biopic heads a field of 41 nominated films and programmes, and the public has until 30 October to pick a favourite Scot on screen

By Damien Day

I Swear, the film telling the true story of Scottish Tourette's syndrome campaigner John Davidson, leads the field at this year's BAFTA Scotland Awards with seven nominations.

The winners will be revealed in Glasgow on Sunday 15 November at a ceremony hosted by Edith Bowman, BAFTA Scotland has announced. In all, 41 programmes and films received nominations across 14 competitive categories.

I Swear fills all three places in the Actor Film category, with Peter Mullan, Robert Aramayo and Scott Ellis Watson all nominated.

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How the first stars switched on the lights, and made the stuff we are made of
Science

How the first stars switched on the lights, and made the stuff we are made of

A University of Bath-led team is using ultra-detailed simulations to recreate the dawn of starlight, and has received 40 million hours on the UK's national supercomputers to go further

By Helen Cooper

Before there were planets, before there was carbon in your bones or oxygen in your lungs, there was only darkness and gas. Then, somewhere in the infant Universe, the first stars switched on.

Now a team in the UK is recreating that moment inside a computer. Researchers at the University of Bath are leading MEGATRON, a project of extraordinarily detailed simulations that show how those earliest stars lit up a previously dark Universe and began producing elements such as carbon, oxygen and iron, according to a University of Bath release.

In plain terms, MEGATRON is a virtual cosmos built to follow the birth of the first galaxies. The simulations begin with pristine gas containing no heavy elements, reproducing conditions that existed shortly after the Big Bang.

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Spot a squirrel? Scots asked to log red and grey sightings this week
Dogs & Animals

Spot a squirrel? Scots asked to log red and grey sightings this week

The eighth Great Scottish Squirrel Survey runs from 5 to 11 October, and anyone can take part, from back gardens to city parks

By Helen Cooper

Spotted a squirrel on your morning walk? From Monday, Scotland wants to hear about it.

The eighth annual Great Scottish Squirrel Survey runs from 5 to 11 October, and anyone can take part. All you need to do is report any red or grey squirrel you see to Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels (SSRS), the partnership project led by the Scottish Wildlife Trust.

Sightings are logged online at scottishsquirrels.org.uk/squirrel-sightings. The survey asks for both species, so don't skip the greys.

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Juice Swings Past Earth on Slingshot Route to Jupiter
Science

Juice Swings Past Earth on Slingshot Route to Jupiter

Europe's Jupiter probe borrowed a little of our planet's motion on 28 September, bending its course by 20 degrees and gaining 3.5 km/s while barely touching its fuel.

By Henry Davenport

At a quarter to one in the afternoon, British time, on Monday 28 September, a spacecraft bound for Jupiter slipped past our planet just 8,640 km above the Indian Ocean. It took some photographs, and left travelling faster and in a new direction.

It burned hardly any fuel to do so. Earth did the heavy lifting.

The spacecraft is the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, known as Juice. According to ESA, the flyby deflected Juice by 20 degrees compared with its previous path and increased its speed by 3.5 km/s. That is roughly 12,600 km/h of extra speed, gained with very little propellant.

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Free Peking Opera night comes to Glasgow's Cottiers Theatre
What's On Glasgow

Free Peking Opera night comes to Glasgow's Cottiers Theatre

The University of Glasgow's Peking Opera Society brings voice, movement and gesture to the West End on 11 November as part of the Being Human Festival.

By Henry Davenport

A raised eyebrow or a flick of a sleeve "can say more than expected". That is the promise behind Peking Opera in Glasgow, a free evening of live Chinese opera coming to Cottiers Theatre in the West End next month.

The performance takes place on Wednesday 11 November, from 7pm to 9pm, at Cottiers Theatre, 93-95 Hyndland Street, G11 5PU. It is organised by the Peking Opera Society at the University of Glasgow, and entry is free.

The organisers' listing describes an evening that "brings Chinese opera into the city through live performance, voice, movement and gesture".

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