Ten things you (probably) didn’t know about Aberdeen
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ABERDEEN is a veritable oil well of intrigue, the kind of town it would take a lifetime to get to know completely. And that’s just the pubs.
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5 odd locations of Scotland’s mysterious ancient stones
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Stones dating back thousands of years can be found dotted across Scotland - and sometimes in the unlikeliest of places, from a golf course to an office block and a back garden in the Highlands where a stone circle sits outside the kitchen door.
Tutti Frutti at 30: The making of a BBC Scotland cult classic
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Thirty years ago, BBC Scotland premiered a six-part drama series set in Glasgow, written by Scottish playwright John Byrne and starring two of Britain’s best-loved actors, before they were famous.
A history of Dundee’s Wellgate ‘nursery rhyme’ clock
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DUNDEE’S iconic Wellgate Centre clock has kept local kids enthralled and entranced for generations.
The tale of the monkey hanged in the North East
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It is a story that has lingered over a North East village for more than 200 years and even today people of Boddam don’t really like to talk about it.
Video: Ten Scottish castles on islands
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There are few better defensive positions to build a Scottish castle than safely surrounded by water on an island.
Book review: Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark, by Alan Taylor
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It often happens that when someone who has been a friend, disciple or associate of an admired writer comes to write a memoir telling of their relationship, a note of sourness or resentment is struck. Roger Lewis’s admittedly very entertaining biography of Anthony Burgess was such a book...
Art review: NOW, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
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The latest NOW show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art builds a compelling and thoughtful show around the work of Susan Philipsz
Garter and pistol among items to be displayed at V&A museum
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A 500-year-old prayer book, a Jacobite garter and a Highland pistol will get starring roles alongside a pair of “wellies” and Dennis the Menace in Dundee’s new V&A Museum of Design when it opens next year.
Pistols and comics among items to be displayed at V&A museum
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A 500-year-old prayer book, a Jacobite garter and a Highland pistol will get starring roles alongside a pair of “wellies” and Dennis the Menace in Dundee’s new V&A Museum of Design when it opens next year.
Duncan Dunlop: Let’s talk about love in the care system – at the moment there isn’t any
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It has been a year since we called on the First Minister to consider what was going wrong with the care system in Scotland. A year after she sat down with young people from Who Cares? Scotland. A year...
Ken Stott keen to revive his role as Inspector Rebus
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Veteran Scottish actor Ken Stott has revealed he would “jump at the chance” to play Inspector Rebus again – but fears he may be too old for the role.
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.
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.
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