The attendance for this year’s 152nd Open at Royal Troon will be 250,000, which represents a huge 77,000 increase from the 2016 event at the Ayrshire venue. It means the crowd for the July 18-21 event – its tenth staging at Royal Troon – will be the biggest for the world’s oldest major outside St Andrews, where 290,000 fans attended the 2022 edition. “It is a big increase and I think there’s been a huge amount done to try and make sure that the number we bring in is what the golf course can...
A former military base in Stirling is to become one of Scotland's most important film and television hubs – with a new drama on the Lockerbie disaster the first production to use the vast site. Key scenes for the five-part Sky series starring Colin Firth and Catherine McCormack have been filmed inside and outside the surviving barracks buildings at Forthside which will be retained for future shoots. More than 4000 jobs are predicted to be created over the next 25 years as a result of the...