MUSIC AND PRAISE YOUNG ECO CAMPAIGNERS

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Skids are one of a few Scottish acts who can be described as truly iconic, having been huge influences on U2 and Manic Street Preachers among many others.

The groundbreaking punk outfit, fronted by Richard Jobson, emerged from Fife’s mining villages in 1977 to conquer the world with landmark songs such as Into The Valley.

Their song The Saints Are Coming was covered by U2 and Green Day in 2006 to raise money for Hurricane Katrina survivors and made it to No1 all over the globe.

They split in the early 80s but reunited last year and their new album, Burning Cities, went down a storm with fans and critics alike.

With sell-out shows all over the UK, including their Barrowland debut and a landmark performance at the Royal Albert Hall, Skids are back at the cutting edge of music.

Sunday Mail

The two primary schools have been at the forefront of their own campaigns to get Scotland to ban plastic straws – the premise behind the Sunday Mail’s Last Straw Campaign.

Lobbying by pupils in Ullapool led to their Highland village becoming the first place in the UK to be free of plastic drinking straws.

More than 200 miles away, the children of Sunnyside Primary helped convince Glasgow City Council to end the use of plastic straws in their public outlets, restaurants and school canteens.

The Ullapool kids persuaded 14 bars, restaurants, cafes and businesses in the Ross-shire beauty spot to stop offering drinking straws or to switch to non-plastic alternatives.

As well as convincing the country’s largest authority to ditch straws, the Sunnyside pupils also persuaded Scotland’s biggest ferry operator, Caledonian MacBrayne, to stop offering straws on vessels.