Living by the Sword
AS speculation grows over who will design Meghan Markle’s wedding gown, a small charity shop in the heart of Edinburgh has quietly been attracting brides-to-be to its unique bridal boutique full of designer wedding dresses.
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The prerequisite for the typical BBC SSO Hear and Now concert is an open mind. It’s easy to dismiss the experimentalism that features in these unorthodox programmes as pretentious, especially when the programme notes, as on Saturday, stretch the bounds of useful comprehension.
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Django Django are impossible to pigeonhole. They’re constantly spooling through an eclectic mix-tape of genre-blurring sounds, from psychedelia and art-rock to house, techno, synth-pop, Krautrock, Jamaican dancehall, rockabilly, surf and even skiffle.
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WITH the news that Edinburgh’s grand old lady, the Caledonian Hotel, has been sold to a UAE investor, we’ve burrowed deep into our image archives to take a closer look at the famous establishment’s long and illustrious history.
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Edinburgh’s west end has long been a sought after address thanks to its proximity to a range of independent shops, bars and restaurants and the historical and beautiful Georgian buildings.
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Angler Kenny Docherty made the first cast in Kenmore in Perth and Kinross during the traditional opening of the River Tay salmon fishing season on Monday.
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When you look at a brand new GORE-TEX jacket, what do you see in your mind’s eye? Do you imagine yourself climbing the last few feet to the top of a snow-capped mountain, the jacket’s easily-adjustable hood fitting snugly around your face?
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One of Edinburgh’s most famous hotels is to undergo a major expansion after being snapped up by new overseas owners.
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It is one of the grandest railway hotels ever built, a reminder of a time when you could take a train from the west end of Princes Street.
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As midwinter draws near and the nation’s ski tourers take to the hills for their first few expeditions of the 2017/18 season, let’s travel back in time and consider what the early days of ski touring in Scotland were like...
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Bruce Watson was an apprentice at Rosyth Dockyard when he teamed up with Stuart Adamson to form Big Country in the early 80s. As he prepares to celebrate 35 years since iconic debut album The Crossing...
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It’s Fleur Darkin’s job as a choreographer to let her dancers’ bodies speak for themselves. That’s why one phrase leapt out when she re-read one of her favourite books, The Lover by Marguerite Duras: “When...
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The enduring legacy of Robert Burns can be seen in everything from contemporary art to postage stamps.
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When I first spot Nick Park at Aardman’s Bristol studios, he’s on screen leading a caveman dance with a bearskin slung over his sensible shirt. A colleague waddles slightly in a pear-shaped fatsuit, while a third shakes a makeshift spear.
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Big action sequences plus swords and sorcery means it’s little wonder there are whispers that Britannia could fill the hole on our TV screens left by Game of Thrones.
