Live music venue in Leith to be demolished for student housing 12 Mar 2018 22:20 Living by the Sword The only live music venue in Edinburgh’s Leith area is set to be demolished to make way for a student housing and hotel development.
KT Tunstall to be first woman to lead Tartan Day parade through New York 12 Mar 2018 14:56 Living by the Sword SCOTTISH singer KT Tunstall is to become the first woman to lead the annual Tartan Day parade through New York.
Final bid to stop housing development at Culloden battlefield 12 Mar 2018 14:22 Living by the Sword Campaigners are making a last-ditch effort to prevent the building of homes at the Culloden battlefield site.
Makers of Avengers: Infinity War blockbuster tell Edinburgh to 'get ready' for premiere 12 Mar 2018 11:38 Living by the Sword The makers of the new Avengers: Infinity War blockbuster have told Edinburgh to "get ready" for a huge premiere in the city that has a starring role in the forthcoming film.
Brian Ferguson: Government has to fund Scottish Youth Theatre 12 Mar 2018 06:00 Living by the Sword Janet Archer, Creative Scotland’s chief executive has, by any standards of public life in Scotland, had a fair old pummelling over the last couple of months.
SYT could become national company to avoid closure 12 Mar 2018 06:00 Living by the Sword The closure-threatened Scottish Youth Theatre (SYT) could adopt a new legal status which would allow it to gain funding directly from the Scottish Government, its chief executive has said.
SYT could become 'national company' to avoid closure 11 Mar 2018 15:23 Living by the Sword The closure-threatened Scottish Youth Theatre could adopt a new legal status which would allow it to gain funding directly from the Scottish Government, its chief executive has said.
Review: Kia Stinger 10 Mar 2018 23:44 Living by the Sword There’s a new fast car on the streets. It is the Stinger, a rear-wheel-drive four-door lift-back from Kia. Despite the name Stinger, which suggests antagonism or defence, its French designer Gregory Guillaume explains...
Edinburgh’s Scott Monument brings in strict limit on visitors after overcrowding fears 10 Mar 2018 23:43 Living by the Sword Strict crowd control measures are to be introduced at Edinburgh’s iconic Scott Monument for the first time in its history.
Bid to save iconic hotel that inspired Donald Trump’s Turnberry 10 Mar 2018 23:05 Living by the Sword A campaign has been launched to save a historic railway landmark that inspired the Trump-owned Turnberry Hotel.
Queen Victoria’s £1m cake basket up for sale 10 Mar 2018 23:04 Living by the Sword An antique silver “cake basket” which is believed to have been used by Queen Victoria when she visited a Scottish castle has been put up for sale by an American dealer for $1.5 million (£1m).
Edinburgh teenager Saskia Eng advances on The Voice 10 Mar 2018 21:38 Living by the Sword The Voice hopeful Saskia Eng has progressed to the next stage of the ITV singing competition after being snapped up by rapper and producer Will.i.am.
Nicola Sturgeon shows support for The Voice hopeful Saskia Eng 10 Mar 2018 12:45 Living by the Sword EDINBURGH-born student Saskia Eng has secured the support of Nicola Sturgeon as she continues her bid to reach The Voice finals tonight.
Comedy review: Katherine Ryan: Glitter Room 10 Mar 2018 09:00 Living by the Sword Between the start of Katherine Ryan’s Glitter Room tour, in September last year, and her Glasgow Comedy Festival appearance this week, which coincided with International Women’s Day, the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements have arguably made huge progressive gains.
The 6 shop stewards deported from Glasgow - to Edinburgh 09 Mar 2018 18:54 Living by the Sword In the heat of wartime labour relations on The Clyde, six shop stewards were deported by the authorities in a bid cool unrest in the factories that had become crucial to the war effort.