Dundee’s lost landmark to “return” to city streets
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For more than 100 years, it towered over the waterfront at Dundee before being dynamited in the 1960s to make way for the Tay Road Bridge.
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Plans to close Edinburgh music school are dropped
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PLANS to close Edinburgh’s world-renowned music school and disperse its work across the city have been dropped.
Online ‘rogues gallery’ uncovers Fife’s criminal past
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HUNDREDS of historic records and mugshots of Fife’s crooks, convicts and ne’er-do-wells - young and old - have been made available online for the first time.
Boost for Arran as new ferry terminal set to open
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Visit Scotland has announced that a new ferry terminal will open in Brodick on the Isle of Arran, in what has been hailed as a major boost for island tourism.
Album reviews: Stereophonics | Billy Bragg | Golden Teacher | Roy Orbison
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Two decades after their debut, Stereophonics show a willingness to experiment, while Billy Bragg seeks out injustice
Music review: Squeeze, Usher Hall, Edinburgh
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A QUICK glance at the crowd might have suggested that wry, mid-70s-formed London punk-pop prototypes Squeeze are a nostalgia act these days, one who cultivate an audience who are more or less their own age, and who get by largely on the basis of past glories.
Private estate of the Queen invests millions in tax havens
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The Queen’s private estate is alleged to have invested millions of pounds in offshore tax havens.
Kirsty Gunn: Scotland’s Orwellian nightmare, courtesy of Brexit, globalisation and ‘Happy Holidays’
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Communities. Tribes. Followers. Gatherings… These are the kinds of collective nouns that have come to settle permanently at the heart of contemporary life.
Liam Gallagher to film music video at Barras market
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Liam Gallagher will begin shooting his new music video at the Barras market in Glasgow on Monday evening.
Review: Seat Ibiza and Ford Fiesta
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Ford’s Fiesta started life in 1976 at a factory in Valencia. Eight years later Spain’s national carmaker, Seat, produced its reply, called Ibiza.
Book review: Winter, by Ali Smith
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“Oh wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?” One of the intrigues of Ali Smith’s proposed quartet of novels, of which this is the second, is how the narrative arc will reflect the emotions we impose upon the seasons...
Music review: Chris Isaak, Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow
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WITH no new album to promote nor anniversary to celebrate, rock’n’roll crooner Chris Isaak was touring simply for the love of playing with his trusty band. Silvertone, who gave their name to his debut album...
Theatre reviews: Duet for One | The Burton Taylor Affair
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IT’S A dangerous business, writing plays which are – or can be interpreted as being – about real historical figures. In a programme note to Birmingham Rep’s recent production of Duet For One, now on tour in Edinburgh...
Music review: Alison Moyet at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
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FORTY years after she wrote her first songs, and 35 since she became one of the nation’s favourite unlikely pop stars, Alison Moyet has learned to embrace the Other, titling her current album and tour after the misfit feeling which has never quite left her.
Music review: Kamasi Washington, SWG3, Glasgow
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One of a new generation of jazz musicians deeply informed by hip-hop, R&B and other popular black music influences, saxophonist Kamasi Washington, a figure of Fijian rugby player proportions, leads a correspondingly muscular band...
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