Living by the Sword
National Lottery funding is to be used to fund the creation of a 240-strong team of street volunteers to welcome visitors to Edinburgh’s major festivals and help them find their way around the city.
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Phyllis Ramsay held her 100th birthday party at Edinburgh Zoo, where she volunteered before insurance red tape meant it was no longer viable for her to be on the premises. “That’s the secret – forward plan...
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By all accounts, Archive On 4 – broadcast at the same time on a Saturday night as Britain’s Got Talent – is a classy programme which takes bits of old audio on a particular theme and builds an interesting and intelligent discussion around them.
Living by the Sword
When you’re younger, it’s hard to imagine what will happen when you become old. It seems like such a long time away. But when the realisation creeps up on you that time is not on your side, it can be pretty scary.
Living by the Sword
The historic QE2 ocean liner, the crowning glory of Scotland’s shipbuilding heyday, is to finally begin a new chapter as a floating hotel this week.
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To see an osprey haul a fish out of a river or loch is one of the most thrilling sights in nature, while their flying feats from Britain to Africa each year are awe-inspiring, writes broadcaster and author Jeremy Paxman...
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Although the story is set in London, there’s always a sense that the landscape of Victorian Edinburgh is somehow implicated in Robert Louis Stevenson’s great 1886 novella, The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll...
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There’s no other comic quite like Russell Brand, dispensing cookies to his audience made by the Hare Krishnas and remaining onstage during the interval, posing for photos with the multitude that want them.
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Imbued with global anxieties, the spy novel is the perfect vehicle for this post-truth era, writes Penny Fielding
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HOTLY-anticipated Disney Pixar sequel, Incredibles 2, is to be screened during the Edinburgh International Film Festival - three weeks before its general release in the UK.
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Anchorman star Will Ferrell has been taken to hospital after a car accident in California that left one person critically injured.
Living by the Sword
It was a centre piece of the Glasgow Garden Festival - a giant head that floated on The Clyde like a boat.
Living by the Sword
If you’ve ever dreamed of owning a pub, there are plenty currently on the market across Scotland.
Living by the Sword
They are perhaps the less fashionable little brothers of Scotland’s magnificent standing stones - but no less fascinating.
Living by the Sword
Forget the Mediterranean or the Caribbean, Scotland has incredible white sand beaches scattered around its coastline, rivalling any found around the world.
