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the bidders to the request manager: bidders.forEach(function(bidder) { requestManager[bidder] = false; }) // a helper function that returns googletag objects corresponding to the slotIDs in the slot objects function _getGPTSlots(apstagSlots) { // get all of the slot IDs that were requested var slotIDs = apstagSlots.map(function(slot) { return slot.slotID; }); // return the slot objects corresponding to the slotIDs return googletag.pubads().getSlots().filter(function(slot) { // return true if the ID of the slot object is in the slotIDs array return slotIDs.indexOf(slot.getSlotElementId()) > -1; }); } function getPETRequest() { googletag.cmd.push(function() { // read the currently defined GPT ad slots for sending to the PET endpoint // defined all GPT ad slots before calling PET var gptSlots = googletag.pubads().getSlots(); var iasPETSlots = []; for (var i = 0; i < gptSlots.length; i++) { var sizes = gptSlots[i].getSizes().map(function(size) { if (size.getWidth && size.getHeight) return [size.getWidth(), size.getHeight()]; else return [1, 1]; }); iasPETSlots.push({ adSlotId: gptSlots[i].getSlotElementId(), //size: can either be a single size (for example, [728, 90]) // or an array of sizes (for example, [[728, 90], [970, 90]]) size: sizes, adUnitPath: gptSlots[i].getAdUnitPath() }); } // wait for IAS to return data var iasDataHandler = function(adSlotData) { headerBidderBack('ias'); }; // make the request to PET. if your page makes multiple ad requests to DFP // (for example, lazily loaded ads, infinite scrolling pages, etc.), make // a request to PET before every request to DFP __iasPET.queue.push({ adSlots: iasPETSlots, dataHandler: iasDataHandler }); }); } // return true if all bidders have returned function allBiddersBack() { var allBiddersBack = bidders // get the booleans from the object .map(function(bidder) { return requestManager[bidder]; }) // get rid of false values - indicates that the bidder has responded .filter(Boolean) // if length is equal to bidders, all bidders are back .length === bidders.length; return allBiddersBack; } // handler for header bidder responses function headerBidderBack(bidder) { // console.log("DFP: headerBidderBack called with", bidder); if (typeof bidder === 'object') { requestManager.adSlots = bidder; bidder = 'prebid'; } // return early if request to adserver is already sent if (requestManager.adserverRequestSent === true) { return; } // flip bidder back flag if (bidder === 'a9') { requestManager.a9 = true; } else if (bidder === 'prebid') { requestManager.prebid = true; } else if (bidder === 'ias') { requestManager.ias = true; } // if all bidders are back, send the request to the ad server if (allBiddersBack()) { sendAdserverRequest(); } } // actually get ads from DFP function sendAdserverRequest() { // console.log("DFP: All bidders back"); // return early if request already sent if (requestManager.adserverRequestSent === true) { return; } if (typeof window.prebidReady === 'undefined') { window.prebidReady = performance.now(); } if (window.googleReady) { // flip the boolean that keeps track of whether the adserver request was sent requestManager.adserverRequestSent = true; // flip pbjs boolean to signal to pbjs the ad server has already been called pbjs.adserverCalled = true; //flip boolean for adserver request to avoid duplicate requests requestManager.sendAdserverRequest = true; // make ad request to DFP googletag.cmd.push(function() { window.executionSet = performance.now(); apstag.setDisplayBids(); __iasPET.setTargetingForGPT(); // console.log("DFP: Refresh called, setting adslots to ", requestManager.adSlots); if (requestManager.adSlots.length > 0){ googletag.pubads().refresh(requestManager.adSlots); } else { googletag.pubads().refresh(); } setPerformanceCookie(); }); } else { window.setTimeout(function() { sendAdserverRequest(true); }, 200); } } function requestBids(apstagSlots, bidTimeout) { // fetch apstag bids, set bid targting, then call headerBidderBack // to get the ads for the 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Part of the motorway was closed for a time but reopened</p> </div> <div class="article-image-container"> <img loading="lazy" src="/resources/images/180x180/1x/19265733.jpg" alt="" /> </div> </a> </li> <li class="article-item"> <a class="article" href="/news/25047965.bbc-netflix-release-first-look-new-lockerbie-drama/" data-position="" data-parsely-slot="-" data-uses-js="article-story"> <div class="article-container">  <p class="article-date">Date</p> <h4 class="article-headline">BBC and Netflix reveal first look at new Lockerbie drama</h4> <p class="article-body">The BBC and Netflix have released first-look pictures of The Bombing of Pan Am 103, the forthcoming drama based on the Lockerbie bombing. 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Youtuber David Crossley and his friends travelled up from Manchester to drive the North Coast 500 route in a campervan over a</p> </div> <div class="article-image-container"> <img loading="lazy" src="/resources/images/180x180/1x/19265595.jpg" alt="" /> </div> </a> </li> <li class="article-item"> <a class="article" href="/news/25047884.body-found-search-missing-man/" data-position="" data-parsely-slot="-" data-uses-js="article-story"> <div class="article-container">  <p class="article-date">Date</p> <h4 class="article-headline">Body found in search for missing man Andrew Hodge</h4> <p class="article-body">A body has been found during the search for a missing man. Police said officers were made aware of a body having been found in a wooded area near Bowhill View, Cardenden around 8.30am on Saturday. Formal identification has still to take place</p> </div> <div class="article-image-container"> <img loading="lazy" src="/resources/images/180x180/1x/4719948.jpg" alt="" /> </div> </a> </li> <li class="article-item"> <a class="article" href="/life_style/25032288.make-traditional-scottish-pie/" data-position="" data-parsely-slot="-" data-uses-js="article-story"> <div class="article-container">  <p class="article-date">Date</p> <h4 class="article-headline">Gary Townsend: How to make this traditional Scottish pie</h4> <p class="article-body">This week’s recipe is for a hearty macaroni pie. Serve warm with a side salad or steamed greens for extra freshness. The kale and spinach add a nutritious, earthy twist to this delicious, traditional Scottish pie. Ingredients, serves 4 Short</p> </div> <div class="article-image-container"> <img loading="lazy" src="/resources/images/180x180/1x/19242487.jpg" alt="" /> </div> </a> </li> <li class="article-item"> <a class="article" href="/news/25047878.furniture-retailer-open-biggest-uk-store-near-glasgow/" data-position="" data-parsely-slot="-" data-uses-js="article-story"> <div class="article-container">  <p class="article-date">Date</p> <h4 class="article-headline">Furniture retailer to open biggest UK store near Glasgow</h4> <p class="article-body">A family-owned furniture retailer has announced plans to open its biggest UK store to date near Glasgow. The new Furniture Village store will occupy the former Peter Vardy CARZ showroom off the M8 motorway in Hillington. It will be the retailer's</p> </div> <div class="article-image-container"> <img loading="lazy" src="/resources/images/180x180/1x/19265481.jpg" alt="" /> </div> </a> </li> <li class="article-item"> <a class="article" href="/life_style/25038181.scots-word-week-different-angle-property/" data-position="" data-parsely-slot="-" data-uses-js="article-story"> <div class="article-container">  <p class="article-date">Date</p> <h4 class="article-headline">Know your Scots: A different angle on property</h4> <p class="article-body">According to the Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL), this term refers to “a house standing at a corner and forming an angle between two roads”. An early example comes from Alex Wallace’s Sketches of Life and Character (1869): “All our readers</p> </div> <div class="article-image-container"> <img loading="lazy" src="/resources/images/180x180/1x/19251427.jpg" alt="" /> </div> </a> </li> <li class="article-item"> <a class="article" href="/opinion/25041759.basic-bank-accounts-need-easier-people-open/" data-position="" data-parsely-slot="-" data-uses-js="article-story"> <div class="article-container">  <p class="article-date">Date</p> <h4 class="article-headline">Basic Bank Accounts need to be easier for people to open</h4> <p class="article-body">The ultimate form of financial exclusion is not having access to a bank account. Now for many of us, this may seem a strange comment because surely everyone has a bank account? However, across the UK there are 1.1 million people who don’t (around 160,000</p> </div> <div class="article-image-container"> <img loading="lazy" src="/resources/images/180x180/1x/17641196.jpg" alt="" /> </div> </a> </li> <li class="article-item"> <a class="article" href="/news/25047790.hopes-train-station-glasgows-parkhead-continue-new-plan/" data-position="" data-parsely-slot="-" data-uses-js="article-story"> <div class="article-container">  <p class="article-date">Date</p> <h4 class="article-headline">New Glasgow train station mooted as part of action plan</h4> <p class="article-body">An action plan for Glasgow's Parkhead is being drawn up to improve the area as hopes continue that it may get its own train station. Part of the strategy would see the area changing to become a 20-minute neighbourhood, which aims for essential</p> </div> <div class="article-image-container"> <img loading="lazy" src="/resources/images/180x180/1x/3851040.jpg" alt="" /> </div> </a> </li> <li class="article-item"> <a class="article" href="/news/25047154.judith-faces-lifeline-care-downgraded-not-alone/" data-position="" data-parsely-slot="-" data-uses-js="article-story"> <div class="article-container">  <p class="article-date">Date</p> <h4 class="article-headline">Judith faces having her lifeline care downgraded. She is not alone</h4> <p class="article-body">‘We’re vulnerable and that’s why we’re being targeted’ Judith Marshall faces having her lifeline care downgraded. She’s not alone For Judith Marshall, the prospect of having her lifeline care package downgraded is simply another challenge to</p> </div> <div class="article-image-container"> <img loading="lazy" src="/resources/images/180x180/1x/19264415.jpg" alt="" /> </div> </a> </li> <li class="article-item"> <a class="article" href="/politics/viewpoint/25046822.lost-daughter-suicide---online-safety-isnt-strong-enough/" data-position="" data-parsely-slot="-" data-uses-js="article-story"> <div class="article-container">  <p class="article-date">Date</p> <h4 class="article-headline">I lost my daughter to suicide - online safety isn't strong enough</h4> <p class="article-body">Theoretically, earlier this month the online world in the UK got safer. Ofcom launched its long-awaited enforcement programme to assess the compliance of the tech industry under the Online Safety Act. It requires service providers to assess and mitigate</p> </div> <div class="article-image-container"> <img loading="lazy" src="/resources/images/180x180/1x/19264003.jpg" alt="" /> </div> </a> </li> <li class="article-item"> <a class="article" href="/news/25026822.scots-slaughtered-countless-elephants-new-study-aims-save/" data-position="" data-parsely-slot="-" data-uses-js="article-story"> <div class="article-container">  <p class="article-date">Date</p> <h4 class="article-headline">Hot shot Scots killed countless elephants. A new Scottish study aims to save them</h4> <p class="article-body">They were men of iron nerve, unerring aim and, gazed at through a modern lens, it seems they were also capable of unbearable cruelty. A century ago, Scots like Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell – nicknamed Karamojo Bell to reflect the Karamoja region</p> </div> <div class="article-image-container"> <img loading="lazy" src="/resources/images/180x180/1x/19233999.jpg" alt="" /> </div> </a> </li> <li class="article-item"> <a class="article" href="/news/25047766.health-board-issues-mmr-vaccine-reminder-parents-carers/" data-position="" data-parsely-slot="-" data-uses-js="article-story"> <div class="article-container">  <p class="article-date">Date</p> <h4 class="article-headline">Health board issues MMR vaccine reminder to parents and carers</h4> <p class="article-body">NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has issued a reminder to parents and carers to make sure their child takes up their invitation to receive the MMR vaccine. The vaccine, which is given to children at age one, and then administered as a booster at three</p> </div> <div class="article-image-container"> <img loading="lazy" src="/resources/images/180x180/1x/11784462.jpg" alt="" /> </div> </a> </li> <li class="article-item"> <a class="article" href="/news/25047720.pair-charged-crash-near-glasgow-subway-station/" data-position="" data-parsely-slot="-" data-uses-js="article-story"> <div class="article-container">  <p class="article-date">Date</p> <h4 class="article-headline">Pair charged after road crash closes Subway station</h4> <p class="article-body">Two men have been arrested and charged following a road traffic collision in Glasgow. At around 4am on Saturday, police received a report of a two-vehicle crash on Norfolk Street, at the junction with Eglinton Street, involving a BMW 3 Series and</p> </div> <div class="article-image-container"> <img loading="lazy" src="/resources/images/180x180/1x/16301881.jpg" alt="" /> </div> </a> </li> <li class="article-item"> <a class="article" href="/news/25047690.1-000-killed-earthquake-myanmar/" data-position="" data-parsely-slot="-" data-uses-js="article-story"> <div class="article-container">  <p class="article-date">Date</p> <h4 class="article-headline">More than 1,000 killed by earthquake in Myanmar</h4> <p class="article-body">The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to more than 1,000 on Saturday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed when it struck near the country’s second-largest city.</p> </div> <div class="article-image-container"> <img loading="lazy" src="/resources/images/180x180/1x/19265220.jpg" alt="" /> </div> </a> </li> <li class="article-item"> <a class="article" href="/business_hq/25044767.raf-mountain-rescue-team-legend-attended-lockerbie-tragedy/" data-position="" data-parsely-slot="-" data-uses-js="article-story"> <div class="article-container">  <p class="article-date">Date</p> <h4 class="article-headline">'Legend' of Scotland's mountain rescue community dies after a lifetime of service</h4> <p class="article-body">David Whalley Born: December 17, 1952; Died: March 24, 2025. 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