Summer Update
Cannock Hockey Club
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News
School segregation didn’t go away. It just evolved.
Vox
How parents are gerrymandering school borders and fencing out poor kids.
Scottish ski industry optimistic despite poor season
Living by the Sword
For the last few years, summer has tended to be a time for celebration – or at least cautious optimism – within the Scottish ski industry, as it’s when the five ski centres traditionally release their combined “skier days” statistic for the previous season.
Book review: A State of Freedom, by Neel Mukherjee
Living by the Sword
The Victorian novel – that great “baggy monster”, as Henry James called it – is alive and well, and being written in India. Neel Mukherjee’s third novel is a good example. Telling the story, or stories...
Highlands and Islands Airports report record breaking rises
Living by the Sword
REGIONAL airport operator Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd (HIAL) has reported another period of increased passenger numbers at its 11 airports across Scotland, welcoming a total of 477,612 customers between April and June 2017.
Interview: Milton Jones
Living by the Sword
One of the best exponents of the one-liner in British comedy is on the other end of the phone and I’m braced for a machine gun fire barrage of witty puns and bon mots as Milton Jones limbers up for his Edinburgh Festival run.
Music review: Prom 6: Nicola Benedetti, BBC NOW and Thomas Søndergård
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On 20 July, Nicola Benedetti turned 30. She has just been made the youngest recipient for the Queen’s Medal for Music, and she has made it clear that there are other ways too in which she has reached a turning point.
Book review: Madame Zero, by Sarah Hall
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Sarah Hall has said that “short stories are a reminder that you never get to the bottom of things”. You might interpret this in more ways than one, but one might be that the short story – at least the kind she writes – is a light directed briefly into the mysterious darkness of other people’s lives.
Theatre review: A Murder is Announced
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THERE WAS A moment, a few years ago, when the rules around Agatha Christie theatre productions in the UK seemed to be changing. Under the banner of the Agatha Christie Theatre Company, producer Bill Kenwright...
Scotsman 200: From theatre fires to stage favourites
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To mark the 200th anniversary of The Scotsman, we are dipping into our archives to bring you a selection of some of the biggest stories of the last two centuries. This month we have recalled Scotland’s arts scene...
Scotsman 200: Inspiration and talent caught on film
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To mark the 200th anniversary of The Scotsman, we are dipping into our archives to bring you a selection of some of the biggest stories of the last two centuries. This month we have recalled Scotland’s arts scene...
Scotsman 200: Capital flourishes as city of festivals
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To mark the 200th anniversary of The Scotsman, we are dipping into our archives to bring you a selection of some of the biggest stories of the last two centuries. This month we have recalled Scotland’s arts scene...
The ‘open’ Fringe is a leap of faith in arts
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If there’s one thing that’s clear, from the huge flowering of fringe festivals in cities across the world, it’s that “fringe” is a word of many meanings, even when we only apply it to the arts and performance.
Scotsman 200: Concerts that captured the hearts of audiences
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To mark the 200th anniversary of The Scotsman, we are dipping into our archives to bring you a selection of some of the biggest stories of the last two centuries. This month we have recalled Scotland’s arts scene...
Scotsman 200: Literary characters captivate the world
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To mark the 200th anniversary of The Scotsman, we are dipping into our archives to bring you a selection of some of the biggest stories of the last two centuries. This month we have recalled Scotland’s arts scene...
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