Living by the Sword
A singer who dropped out of a film and television course to concentrate on a musical career she started when she was just eight has picked up the most prestigious honour at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections festival.
Living by the Sword
The museum that houses the world’s oldest football needs a millionaire benefactor to secure its future, according to its director.
Living by the Sword
There was a full house at a screening of the new Star Wars film in the Western Isles on Sunday as locals were offered Sabbath cinema for the first time ever.
Living by the Sword
There was a full house at a screening of the new Star Wars film in the Western Isles on Sunday as locals were offered Sabbath cinema for the first time ever.
Living by the Sword
His disjointed verse has long seen him lampooned as the worst poet in the history of the English language.
Living by the Sword
A prominent Scots/American academic is campaigning to halt the sale of a historic Scottish estate once owned by a key figure in the foundation of the USA.
Living by the Sword
One of the most bewildering aspects of the 2014 independence referendum campaign was the way in which so many Scottish artists happily aligned themselves not only with the Yes movement but with the government.
Living by the Sword
Carmakers have their peaks and troughs and last year the volume brand with the most soaring peak was SEAT. Its UK sales rose 18 per cent to pass 56,000. This is a record for the Spanish bit of the VW Group.
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From slain corpses piled three deep in a sunken clay ditch to the portraits of an increasingly careworn President Abraham Lincoln, he captured for posterity the most turbulent era of a young nation’s history.
Living by the Sword
An amateur theatre company has been told it cannot perform a stage version of BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? after it was deemed “demeaning to women and outdated”.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Concrete barriers and chain-link fencing are going up around the site of the Super Bowl in downtown Minneapolis, where a contingent of local, state and national agencies is working to ensure that the game and dozens of related events are safe.
Living by the Sword
BUENA Vista Social Club veteran Juan de Marcos González was quick to declare Glasgow as his favourite city – the whisky might just have something to do with its appeal – but it was clear from this Celtic Connections performance that his heart was in Havana.
Living by the Sword
COMPOSER Max Richter has carved a happy commercial niche at the confluence of contemporary classical, electronic music and film soundtracks, making him a natural fit for the similarly boundary-blind Celtic Connections and their orchestral partners the Scottish Chamber Orchestra...
Living by the Sword
MUCH has changed since Chris Rock last toured. His daughters have become teenagers, and though rich and privileged, he schools them harshly in the realities of growing up black in racist America. His infidelity and appetite for pornography have cost him his 16-year marriage...
Living by the Sword
HOW best to commence a Shetland/Finnish fiddle-band double bill? “Let’s have a Bulgarian tune,” was Chris Stout’s answer, as he led off the former troupe, Fiddlers’ Bid, opening a show which saw both acts ranging majestically far and wide from their respectively rich home traditions...
