This week in Scottish Entertainment / Actor News, Saba brings us up to date on James McAvoy, Robert Carlyle and Dougray Scott’s new projects, another interview with Gerard Butler, photos of Kevin McKidd in Grey’s Anatomy, Craig Ferguson’s new opening sequence and lots of Ewan McGregor news.

This week Radio Scotland’s Vic Galloway highlights Edinburgh’s We Were Promised Jetpacks in Germany and Belgium as his Scottish gigs of the week. After their European shows, the Jetpacks will head to North America for a mini Scottish invasion with the Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit.

Each Sunday we present some of the best new photos of Scotland in the gloaming, the magical time before sunrise or after sunset. This week featuring images of Findhorn, Blackness Castle, the Lairig Ghru and West Burra.

When I first heard about Jesus H. Foxx, they were the haircut band support act of choice in Edinburgh, and pretty much the only purveyors of spiky indie punk pop in the city.  That particular niche seems to be quite well inhabited these days, even as the Foxx themselves are leaving it behind.

Now a highly regarded football analyst, it is easy to forget that Andy Gray was also a formidable striker in his day. In the 2nd part of an exclusive interview with Dear Scotland, Andy talks about Jock Stein, missing out on the Scotland World Cup squads and how he would fare as a player today.

Vic has described Edinburgh’s Broken Records as having “a sound that mixes up the emotive, propulsive energy of Arcade Fire, adds the worldy swing of Beirut and combines it with the epic, sincere songwriting of The Waterboys“. European fans will be able to sample this sound for themselves soon. Dates and ticket details below.

I can exclusively reveal the shocking truth behind the release of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the convicted murderer of 270 people on the Pan Am flight 103 which was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. It is part of a desperate attempt by Tartan Army member, and Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Kenny MacAskill MSP […]

This week on Dear Scotland, Mullguy and Bearsden discuss the best place to put the living room telly in another adventure from Scotland’s most brilliant new animator Swatrick Payze.

Dark stories of Bible John, memories of jitterbugging yanks, and tales of the only appearance in Scotland of Bill Haley & his Comets and The Rolling Stones being paid £5 to perform in 1964, steep the venue in Glasgow lore….. Alec Downie continues his love letter to the Barrowland Ballroom.