Its not just adults who suffer the ill-effects of smoking and want to quit. Teenagers do too. Edd McCracken reports.
LOUISE Laird smoked her first cigarette when she was 11. Recently, she was smoking 20 to 30 a day at a cost of pounds-30 a week. Five weeks ago, the 15-year-old gave up. "It's going quite good, " says the...
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Why - it's none other than the channel 4 soap Hollyoaks. But do the beautiful people spend all day in front of the mirror? David Christie received exclusive access behind the scenes to find out “YOU here for extras work?...
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Scouting For Girls frontman Roy Stride tells fresh why life doesn’t get much better than making a hit album with your best mates.
NOT too long ago, Roy Stride – one third of the pop sensation that is Scouting For Girls – was working part-time at the Carphone Warehouse. Now he and the rest of his troop are celebrating a number one album...
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Finally, being nicknamed the family vacuum cleaner at meal times is a title to be proud of, discovers food fan and eco-convert David Christie.
“PEOPLE don’t realise the damage they might be causing to the planet when scraping their leftover mince and tatties into the bin.” A strange comment, you might think, but not when it comes from the mouth of Jo Lafferty; part...
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Successful musical double acts are as rare as a dry day in Glasgow, but David Christie finds this pair on a high.
“LOOK at us two idiots, everybody is clapping us.” No, not an insight into the cogs slowly turning in Liam Gallagher’s head but the light-hearted response from Katie White when she tries to fathom how she and fellow Ting Tings...
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Cecily von Ziegesar is living proof that it pays to be a gossip. We sent Carrie McAdam along for a blether.
“I’m a terrible gossip,” admits Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the mega-successful series of books entitled Gossip Girl. “I talk about people constantly.” Centred on the lives of a group of privileged teenagers in New York, the series has sold...
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As the second of four RoAR gigs draws near, fresh talked to some of the acts involved to find out why they think it’s important to get on stage and help rid Scotland of racism.
HAVE you ever discovered a great new band, only for your dad to tell you they remind him of a group he used to bop along to in the 1980s? It’s annoying, but it’s not surprising because music is all...
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The Spiderwick Chronicles has been a box office hit in the States, feeding a fascination for goblins, faeries and the possibility of another world at the bottom of the garden. Its two teenage stars Sarah Bolger and Freddie Highmore speak to Abigail Wild.
WITH Sarah Bolger’s acting skills, she could pass herself off as a fairly ordinary 17-year-old. She knows what it’s like to have to be the curtain-puller in the school play. Her dad runs the local butcher’s shop. She says she’s...
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Campbell Walsh may be small in stature but, as the 30-year-old canoeing superstar tells
Colin Hutchison, the Scot has lofty ambitions for the Olympics – and outer space!
Glasgow-born, you now train in Nottingham. What’s wrong with Scottish water? There’s Grandtully [Perthshire], with the poles [slalom gates] suspended above the river, but it’s not technically demanding enough for world-class slalom training. The majority of top events are held...
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The new Guinness World Records book on gaming puts Graeme Virtue in his place.
VIDEO games have always inspired rivalry. Whether it’s trying to beat your best friend at Street Fighter II or jostling for a rocking score on Guitar Hero, competitiveness is at the very heart of playing. Since the early days of...
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