Living by the Sword
It was jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie who inspired research into the Gaelic speaking black slaves of 18th Century America who spoke in the tongue of their Highland masters.
Living by the Sword
Auditions for the next series of Outlander were forced to close early due to huge numbers of applicants.
Living by the Sword
Flora MacDonald, the ultimate heroine of the Jacobite cause, died on March 5, 1790 with 3,000 mourners attending her funeral on Skye where more than 3,000 gallons of whisky were reportedly drunk.
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Former Hollyoaks stars Rachel Shenton and Chris Overton have won the best live action short film Oscar for The Silent Child.
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A POPULAR American diner chain is eyeing up the Capital as it pushes ahead with plans to open restaurants in the UK.
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It’s like the thrill of hiring a newly valeted set of wheels – pristine carpets, upholstery and surfaces – only many times over, when you board the Seabourn Encore, the latest sparkling white addition to the cruise company’s fleet.
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There are two things Allison Janney is asked about most when it comes to I, Tonya, in which she plays LaVona Golden, the figure skater Tonya Harding’s tough-as-nails mother. One is about all the physical abuse the fictional character directs at her daughter, who is played by Margot Robbie.
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Bill Gault turned off the lamp at Fair Isle South lighthouse for the last time 20 years ago this month.
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On 7 February, the BBC reported on its website that Scotland’s ski centres were “reliant on artificial snow.” This was a reference to the fact that three of the five Scottish resorts – Glencoe, CairnGorm and the Lecht ...
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They’re some of the most majestic creatures in the world, and nothing compares to seeing whales in their natural environment.
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Irvine Welsh is to host a huge warehouse party in his native Leith to launch the final instalment of his Trainspotting trilogy – in which one of his characters will be killed off.
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The government has ditched the second part of the Leveson Inquiry, which was due to look into unlawful conduct within media organisations as well as relations between police and the press.
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Full disclosure: I know Andrew Crumey. Given he was my predecessor as literary editor of this paper, it would be rather surprising if I did not. But there are two things to bear in mind. I had read Crumey’s work before I met him, and I still maintain he is an underappreciated Scottish writer.
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This book has an interesting premise: author Matt Hopwood walked from Lindisfarne, off the northeast coast of England, to Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, with just a backpack, staying with strangers and recording their stories of love, which form the book, quoted verbatim.
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Giles Coren has revealed how a Twitter spat with a Scottish man who did not like one of his TV programmes has had him banned from the social media site.
