Living by the Sword
On the first bank holiday in May, a new cross-Border invasion will take place – but instead of angry warriors waving swords, the force will be made up of authors, heading to north-east England for the annual Newcastle Noir crime writing festival.
Living by the Sword
An American flag hand stitched at the eleventh hour by a group of Islay women so it could be flown at a mass burial of US troops killed in a devastating torpedo attack is to return to the island to mark the 100th anniversary of the tragedy.
Living by the Sword
Three years ago, NSPCC Scotland and Maternal Mental Health Scotland produced a snapshot of practice in managing postnatal mental health disorders in Scotland and found serious shortcomings in provision in many areas.
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It’s a chilly Saturday morning on Cramond promenade in Edinburgh where dozens of brightly clad joggers are gathered for the weekly parkrun.
Living by the Sword
It’s a chilly Saturday morning on Cramond promenade in Edinburgh where dozens of brightly clad joggers are gathered for the weekly parkrun.
Living by the Sword
Polo is the car that’s made a mint for Volkswagen. It is almost as much a default choice as its bigger kin, the Golf. A Polo is a safe pick if you choose on image and acceptance. It suits the bright young things and the ever-young old things.
Living by the Sword
He was an unassuming servant of the Kirk credited with saving the lives of thousands of Allied service personnel during World War II after relying on his wits and the Lord for protection.
Living by the Sword
PERHAPS it was tour fatigue or the absence of their regular conductor, Petr Altrichter, but the players in the Czech National Symphony Orchestra looked as if they were sleepwalking through this perfunctory performance at the Usher Hall.
Living by the Sword
WE’RE often told that we are living in an age of rage; but rage is often nothing more than thinly-disguised terror, and the power of Frances Poet’s brilliant and intense new play, for the Traverse and the National Theatre of Scotland...
Living by the Sword
NOEL Gallagher has waited 25 years to go far out with his music. At least partly under the influence of his producer David Holmes, he has replaced plodding pop songs with a more psychedelic sound palette on the latest High Flying Birds album Who Built the Moon?
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IT’S strange to say, given the chaos and controversy of their early years, but Manic Street Preachers are quite the reliable draw these days, never less than a solid live proposition, though too often nothing more.
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WE’RE used to hearing Dvorak’s tuneful and deliciously Slavonic later symphonies, so it was refreshing to get a handle on the Czech composer’s more nascent personal style that pokes wilfully through the Wagnerian shadows of the Fourth Symphony.
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THINGS have changed, in the 21 years since Stephen Greenhorn’s much-loved Passing Places first appeared at the Traverse. The coming of the mobile phone has altered our sense of place, making it far more...
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Cocktails and claustrophobia were on the menu as the famous Royal Mile attraction revealed a new cast of character guides.
Living by the Sword
The organisers of the Edinburgh International Film Festival have announced the hotly-anticipated British comedy Swimming with Men, will close the 72nd edition of the Festival on Sunday July 1.
