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Scotsman
3 days ago
- Scotsman
The most serene hidden gems to visit in Scotland this summer
Discover a different side of Scotland. While iconic sites like Edinburgh Castle and Loch Ness draw the crowds, a new report has highlighted some equally impressive but lesser-known destinations. Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... The alternate destinations are perfect for travellers seeking tranquillity, charm, and authentic local experiences which are a little further from the tourist trail. This shift aligns with the growing travel trend known as JOMO (the 'Joy of Missing Out'), which encourages visitors to embrace slower, more meaningful journeys focused on personal interests and peaceful moments rather than rushing through popular tourist hotspots. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad To uncover the best Scottish destinations that capture the essence of JOMO, FlixBus conducted a study comparing over 30 Scottish towns and villages, considering factors like the number of nature parks, spas, wellness centres, minimum temperatures, sunshine and rainfall, as well as how locations are cropping up in Google searches. St Monans Five Alternative Scottish Destinations for JOMO Travel This Summer 1. St Andrews Renowned for being the 'home of golf', the seaside town of St. Andrews comes in first place as the ultimate Scottish JOMO destination. Approximately an hour away from Fife, the coastal town scored an overall 55 out of 100 due to its abundance of JOMO experiences. With 6,100 travel-related Google searches per month, St. Andrews has solidified its position as a go-to destination for relaxation. 2. St Monans Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad If village life is calling your name, St Monans offers a prime escape from the hustle and bustle of the city. Scoring 53 out of 100 in our index, this quaint village ranks highly for average hours of sunshine (1,574) and outdoor activities, proving the power of nature-based experiences. 3. St Abbs Natural beauty and wildlife go hand in hand in St Abbs, a small fishing village on the southeastern coast of Scotland. Coming in at third place with a 52 out of 100 ranking score, it's the ideal place for a JOMO trip, offering a rugged coastline, dramatic cliffs, and clear waters to explore. St Abbs is home to two stunning nature parks, the highest number per capita in the study - but it only has 350 travel-related Google searches per month, showing it is a true hidden gem. 4. Ayr With a rich literary history and links to famous poet, Robert Burns, the seaside town of Ayr offers a peaceful escape for JOMO travellers. Scoring 51 out of 100 within our index, Ayr still ranks highly for JOMO travel amongst Scottish towns and villages despite its larger size. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad With impressively positive reviews for its nature attractions (2,202 4*+ reviews) and wellness amenities (average of 4.5/5), visitors are bound to enjoy the full JOMO experience in Ayr. 5. Arbroath If you're looking for a JOMO trip where pure relaxation is the goal, Arbroath is the perfect destination. In Flixbus' analysis, this town on the North Sea coast scored the highest average reviews for spas, wellness centres, and spa hotels (average of 4.8/5), with an overall score of 50 out of 100. Top 15 Jomo Destinations 2025
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Awards Chatter' Pod: Sissy Spacek on Her J.Law Collab ‘Die My Love,' the ‘New Hollywood' of the '70s and the Penises in ‘Dying for Sex'
For the fourth annual recording of The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast in front of an audience in the Campari Lounge of the Palais during the Cannes Film Festival, the legendary actress Sissy Spacek joined yours truly for an hourlong conversation about her remarkable life and career. Spacek, a youthful 75, reflected on her journey from small-town Texas to Hollywood (and then to a farm in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she has resided since 1982); her involvement in the 'New Hollywood' of the '70s and early '80s, including massively acclaimed performances in 1973's Badlands, 1976's Carrie, 1977's Three Women, 1980's Coal Miner's Daughter (which brought her a best actress Oscar) and 1982's Missing; and the recently deceased filmmaker David Lynch, a childhood friend of Spacek's husband Jack Fisk and a friend of hers for some 50 years, whose breakthrough 1977 film, Eraserhead, she and Fisk helped to finance, and in whose 1999 film The Straight Story she starred. More from The Hollywood Reporter Billy Joel Shares Brain Disorder Diagnosis 'Lilo & Stitch' Now Soaring to Record $170M-$180M Memorial Day Box Office Bow Pop Star King Princess Didn't Think She Could Be an Actress (Then She Talked to a Psychic) She also discussed her latest project, Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love, which premiered in competition at Cannes just hours after this conversation took place, and which shortly thereafter was acquired by Mubi in the biggest sale of the festival. In the dark drama, Spacek plays the wife of a character played by Nick Nolte (with whom she previously acted in 1980's Heart Beat and 1997's Affliction), the mother of a character played by Robert Pattinson and the mother-in-law of a woman in the throes of severe post-partum depression, played by fellow Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence. Die My Love brought about Spacek's first trip to the Cannes Film Festival in 26 years, following three previous visits, each in different decades — for Three Women, Missing and The Straight Story. The general consensus at the fest was that Spacek's performance in the new film could bring her the seventh Oscar nomination of her career, which would be her first first in 24 years, and her first ever in the category of best supporting actress. Her earlier noms, all in the best actress category, came for Carrie, Coal Miner's Daughter, Missing, 1984's The River, 1986's Crimes of the Heart and 2001's In the Bedroom. Only six living women have accumulated seven or more acting Oscar noms: Meryl Streep (21), Cate Blanchett (8), Judi Dench (8), Glenn Close (8), Jane Fonda (7) and Kate Winslet (7). Best of The Hollywood Reporter 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts Hollywood Stars Who Are One Award Away From an EGOT 'The Goonies' Cast, Then and Now
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Yahoo
OHP issues Endangered Missing Advisory for man believed to be in Coweta
COWETA, Okla. (KFOR) – The Oklahoma Highway Patrol has issued an Endangered Missing Advisory for a man believed to be in Coweta. According to OHP, 33-year-old Jeremy McDonald is 5'11', 300 pounds with red hair and hazel eyes. He was last seen wearing a dark blue shirt with grey sleeves. If seen, call 911. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Post
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Ashley Judd reveals heartbreaking final conversation with mom Naomi as she lay dying
Ashley Judd is sharing new insight into her mom Naomi Judd's tragic suicide. In the new docuseries 'The Judd Family: Truth Be Told' that aired this weekend on Lifetime, Ashley, 57, opened up about the last conversation she had with Naomi as the country singer died by suicide at age 76 in April 2022. Ashley recalled that on the morning of her mother's passing, Naomi sent her a text that said, 'Please help.' Advertisement 8 Naomi and Ashley Judd attend the 2014 Nashville Film Festival. Getty Images 'When I got there, Mom was very uncomfortable in her body, pacing around the kitchen and expressing that she didn't want to be here anymore,' the 'Missing' actress explained. 'I put my hand on her leg and she patted me and she slowly softened and came back to herself and calmed down and shared a couple of things that I would say are private, between us, about why she chose to continue to live,' Ashley shared. Advertisement 8 Naomi Judd visits Hallmark's 'Home and Family' at Universal Studios Hollywood in March 2018. Getty Images 8 Ashley Judd attends Daughters For Earth, Vital Voices and International Center For Research on Women Campaign Launch in New York in 2023. Getty Images for Daughters For Earth Naomi went upstairs, Ashley said, but when the 'Divergent' star checked on her, she discovered that Naomi 'had harmed herself.' 'And then I spent the next whatever it was — half hour — just holding my mother and talking to her, and the first thing I said to her was, 'It's OK, I've seen how much you've been suffering,'' Ashley said. Advertisement 8 Ashley Judd and Naomi Judd arrive at the premiere of 'Twisted' in Feb. 2004. Getty Images 'And we just breathed together,' Ashley added, 'and I talked to her and told her how much I loved her, and it's okay to go.' Ashley said that once her mom passed of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, 'my most earnest wish was to make sure that she was relieved and absolved of her guilt and her shame.' 'I was holding her hand. I was kissing her,' Ashley recalled. 'She was so soft. She smelled so pretty.' Advertisement 8 Naomi, Ashley and Wynonna Judd at the ACM Awards in the 1990s. Getty Images 8 Ashley Judd speaks onstage at the Clinton Global Initiative September 2023 Meeting. Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative She added of Naomi's final moments, 'It was like this final consummation of the love in the relationship that we had transformed. What an honor, to be born into this human life, to be chosen by her. I got to hold space, I got to bookend. And I'm just so glad I was there.' 8 Naomi Judd and Ashley Judd at 'Dancing with the Stars' in 2013. ABC Naomi struggled with mental illness for years before her death. The 'Have Mercy' singer allegedly wrote a suicide note that read, 'Do not let Wy come to my funeral. She's mentally ill,' in reference to her other daughter and singing partner, Wynonna, 60. Despite her mom's alleged wishes, Wynonna did go to Naomi's funeral. 8 Naomi Judd with her two daughters at the annual YouthAIDS Benefit Gala in Sept. 2005. Getty Images Advertisement Last year, Ashley appeared on Anderson Cooper's CNN podcast and called Naomi's death 'traumatic and unexpected.' Ashley added that Naomi told her while dying, 'Let it all go, be free, all is forgiven long ago. All is forgiven long ago. Leave it all here, take nothing with you just be free.' If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988.
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Yahoo
Tribes raise awareness of the missing, murdered women, relatives by the shores of Lake Superior
Three members of the Wisconsin Murdered, Missing, Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) Task Force who attended a May 4 commemoration in Ashland were (from left) Justine Rufus, chair of the task force and a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Rose Barber of Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and Rene Goodwich, a Bad River Tribal member. | Photo by Frank Zufall/Wisconsin Examiner Linda Dunbar, a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and marginalized Communities advocate for New Day Advocacy Centers, said when she was in foster care 50 years ago in St. Paul, Minnesota, her mother was murdered and her killer was never charged. Rose Barber, a member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, a Wisconsin Murdered, Missing, Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) Task Force Member, and president of American Indians Against Abuse, said decades ago, an Alaskan Native friend went missing and his body was never found. Even today, nobody knows what happened to him. After a round dance performed by the Red Cliff Women's Hand Drum group, dozens of names were read of tribal members from Minnesota and Wisconsin who are officially listed as murdered or missing, names such as Melissa Beson of Lac du Flambeau, missing since March 17, Gene J. Cloud, Jr. of Black River Falls, Lisa Lynn Ninham of Menominee County and Nevaeh Leigh Kingbird of Bemidji, Minnesota. And then more names were shouted out, names that had never been officially reported but who family members said had just disappeared and were never heard from again or who died a mysterious death. The names were honored at the No More MMWIR event, which was held Sunday, May 4, in Bayview Park in Ashland by the shore of Lake Superior. The event is one of several being held around the nation during the month of May to raise awareness of the MMIWR issue that has plagued tribal communities nationwide. On some tribal reservations, the murder rate for tribal women is ten times the national average. Tribal members face violence, both domestic and outside their families, at a higher rate than the general population. Several factors contribute to the MMIWR phenomenon including the fact that missing people belong to a vulnerable population that has suffered historical trauma and is disproportionately affected by poverty and substance abuse; exploitation associated with itinerant workers in mining and oil camps near reservations; and an inconsistent track record of law enforcement committing resources to solve murders or finding missing person. Justine Rufus, co-chair of the Wisconsin MMIWR Task Force, rural coordinator of the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and a Bad River member, spoke about the need for state funding to address the issue. Rufus said that since the task force was created five years ago, awareness of the MMIWR issue has grown, but the number of MMIWR cases has also risen. 'We can keep creating awareness and education, which is very important,' she said. 'What we really need is actual action to address this crisis. Our relatives are going missing at higher rates now since we created this task force. We are being murdered at higher rates. We are being sex trafficked higher than we've ever seen, so it takes real action.' Rufus said no state has designated dollars for the MMIWR issue in its budget. (Minnesota sends a percentage of license plate fees to underwrite its MMIWR Office, part of the Department of Public Safety.) She noted that Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers' proposed budget includes $3.5 million to create 11 MMIWR liaison offices with the 11 tribes in the state, working with the Attorney general and the Department of Justice. 'I applaud Gov. Evers for putting this in the budget,' she said. 'He's the first governor in the nation to put any dollars towards this crisis. But now is the time of action. We need to call your legislators to tell them that we demand to continue this work.' Rufus also called for more funding for law enforcement. 'Some of our communities don't even have law enforcement,' she said. She noted the ongoing search for Melissa Beson in Vilas County has consumed many resources. Rufus encouraged the crowd to contact legislative Joint Finance Committee members to urge them to approve funding for MMIWR issues. Rene Ann Goodrich, a Bad River tribal member and MMIWR advocate for the last 10 years, who is a member of the Wisconsin MMIWR Task Force and a board member of the Minnesota MMIWR Office, a member of the Native Lives Matter Coalition and the No More MMIW and Relatives Movement, noted the local effort in the Twin Ports area of Superior and Duluth, Minnesota to raise awareness. She said MMIWR events feature important Native American elements. 'I wanted to share a little bit about some of the cultural practices that we bring as a people to the contemporary missing and murdered indigenous women and relatives movement that helps to promote the healing for our families and our communities.' She noted the cultural practice of offering tobacco and prayers to request guidance. And she talked about how the red dress had become the official symbol of the MMIWR movement. For Native Americans, red represents a 'connection between the physical and spiritual world.' 'The red dresses began with our sisters doing this work and advocacy for lost loved ones up in Canada, and so we've started the work down here about 10 years ago with the red dresses,' she said, 'so we're asking for communities from Minnesota to Wisconsin to please start hanging out those red dresses and hang out red shirts also, because our men, our boys, our two spirits people, they matter, too, and we want to honor them.' For many tribal people who had dealt with historical trauma, including the legacy of family members being shipped to federal boarding schools, Goodwich said, it is difficult to talk about the MMIWR issue but the red dress or red shirt is a way to raise awareness. 'I understand that it's a difficult topic, and it's very difficult for many of us to be able to speak about this movement, this legacy of trauma, this intergenerational trauma that we do carry,' she said. 'So the red dresses are a quiet form of advocacy. They speak for themselves. Hang out a red dress on your porch; hang it in your yard. You're spreading awareness that way. You don't necessarily need to have all the data or the background, but this is a quiet, honoring form of advocacy that everyone can do.' Goodwich noted that she and her granddaughter, Alexis, were gathering names family members wanted to honor, including those who have not been officially recognized as missing or murdered. 'As we become more educated and more familiar about this epidemic and how it impacts us, Indigenous people disproportionately across Turtle Island (Earth), leaving us with this legacy, including the boarding school, the legacy from this colonization, how this violence disproportionately impacts our women and our girls … we're learning more each year about the broad spectrum of violence that is this movement,' said Goodwich. Rep. Angela Stroud (D-Ashland) represents a district that includes the Bad River and Red Cliff bands of Lake Superior Chippewa. 'We know that part of what makes this such a major issue that has been so difficult to solve as a country, as a state, is that we've just failed to make missing and murdered Indigenous people a priority,' said Stroud. 'My experience tells me that when native people are struggling, too often there's a tendency for systems of power to have an attitude that it's not our problem, like it's a problem of tribes or just the problem of local communities,' she added. Stroud said the legacy of state violence and the scourges of drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence, homicide and human trafficking are connected. She called on people living on ceded Native American land to recognize 'the moral responsibility of our government to prioritize missing and murdered Indigenous people.' 'So as the state representative of this area of Bad River and Red Cliff and any other indigenous people who live in the 73rd, I want you to know that I care, that I see you, and I will do what I can to walk this journey with you of finding those who are missing and sitting together in the pain of those who are gone,' she said. Dunbar noted that the Red Cliff Women's Hand Drum Group, performing for the event, had formed to support the community, and each woman had made her own hand drum as part of her spiritual quest. 'These women wanted to come today and sing songs for everyone here for healing and for their own healing,' she said. Those who are left behind after a family member goes missing or is murdered have a need to heal, Dunbar said, and she recounted her own experience. 'People ask me why I am so motivated to work on the MMIWR issue,' she said. 'When I was a little girl, my mother was killed in Saint Paul, Minnesota. They never, ever arrested the person who killed her. They took her body and placed it in a grave, and for some 50 years my family has been looking for her grave, and as the Creator would have it, this past fall we were able to find her grave. Most of my brothers have passed on. There are only three of us left out of nine. And so our nieces and our nephews and our grandchildren are going to journey to her grave this spring to do that ceremony to welcome her home.' SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
