17 stunning pictures that will make you want to never leave Scotland
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We asked our readers to share photos showcasing Scotland at its very best - and we weren’t disappointed.
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Travel: Daios Cove, Crete
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The sun had just risen, but I was oblivious to its penetrating rays. Bunked down in a cave without creature comforts or tools of communication, sleep was all enveloping – until I was nudged awake by a goat.
Glencoe Mountain ski resort battles with poor internet connection, forced to do business ”like it’s 1899”
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A few weeks ago, a BBC Scotland journalist was met with a hail of criticism when she had the temerity to inquire, on social media, if any of her followers knew of businesses in rural areas of Scotland which were struggling due to poor internet access.
Environment fears over Scottish independence rally on Ben Nevis
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Environment groups have voiced fears over plans by independence supporters to climb up Britain’s tallest mountain.
Obituary: Robert Thomson, hard-working journalist much-admired in many Scottish newsrooms
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Robert Duncan Thomson (Bob), journalist. Born: 25 April, 1953 in Glasgow. Died:
13 February 2018 in Edinburgh, aged 64.
Whisky honouring Jacobean princess going for £125 a bottle
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A WHISKY blended from Scotch and Dutch single malts, honouring a long-forgotten princess, is being sold for £125 a bottle.
TV licence fee to increase from April
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The TV licence fee will increase to £150.50 from £147 from April 1, the Government has announced.
Book review: Feel Free, by Zadie Smith
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Collections of essays, reviews and various forms of literary ephemera are a hard sell, for a number of reasons. But Zadie Smith’s new collection is worth the cover price for one piece alone – “Meet Justin Bieber!” ...
Scottish Wedding Show returns to Glasgow
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To mark the start of the Year of the Young Person and celebrate the return of The Scottish Wedding Show’, a ‘mini’ bride and groom walked hand-in-hand into Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow.
Under the Radar: Graham Costello’s STRATA
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Graham Costello’s career started at the age of six when his father brought home a battered drum kit for him. By his teens he had graduated to performing across Europe with noise outfit Young Philadelphia and Krautrock synth act Outblinker.
Creative Scotland admits cover-up over controversial funding cuts
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Creative Scotland has admitted a cover-up over how controversial funding cuts were made - as its chief executive admitted she was “profoundly sorry” over the way they had been handled.
Art reviews: Rehana Zaman at CCA | Brandon Cramm at Intermedia | Walter Price at Modern Institute
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Rehana Zaman’s films cleverly tease out issues of identity, while Walter Price’s energy and confidence can’t overcome a lack of technique
Book review: The Last of the Greenwoods, by Clare Morrall
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Two elderly, reclusive brothers, the Greenwoods, live in neighbouring railway carriages in a field outside Bromsgrove. They share bathroom and kitchen facilities, yet have not exchanged a word in decades.
Book review: The Minister and the Murderer, by Stuart Kelly
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In 1984, James Nelson, who had served nine years of a life sentence for murder, applied for ordination as a minister in the Church of Scotland. There was widespread media coverage, and deeply divided opinion both within the Church and outside it.
Crime scene photos of murder that shocked Aberdeen go public
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It’s a photograph of an old tenement room like any other with its recessed bed, heavy furniture and clothes drying from a line stretched across the ceiling.
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