Rachel Cassidy, a BBC Weather Watcher from Limavady, has been shortlisted for an international weather photography award. Her picture of noctilucent clouds over the north coast of Northern Ireland was taken from her own garden.
Franz Ferdinand have created a limited edition print at Glasgow Print Studio, based on an image from their Paris residency, as part of the studio's Call and Response project. The run of one hundred prints sold quickly, with profits going to future workshops for new artists.
Aberdeen DJ and hip-hop producer Vagrant Real Estate, known as Nick Cronin, won the Scottish Album of the Year award for "Neither Collar Nor Crown" and its £20,000 first prize. The album brings together 25 Scottish artists from different genres, drawing on traditional Scottish folk and Gaelic.
Belfast-born comedian Frank Carson is being honoured with a blue plaque at his former school on what would have been his 100th birthday. His family says it is a great honour that brings him home, and his catchphrases and TV career are remembered fondly.
