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NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — Joe Corbett's life mantra is to just "focus on the next touch," something he learned from fencing.
But the Niantic resident might not have encountered the sport if it weren't for a rule at East Lyme High School.
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His name was Cupid, a slave from Cape Fear in North Carolina, who went on the run in Scotland after being brought to Greenock by his master in the mid 18th century.
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Authors Denise Mina, Val McDermid and Irvine Welsh are in the line-up for Scotland’s crime-writing festival, it has been announced.
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A man has been taken to hospital after jumping from his car just before it rolled down an embankment towards a cliff edge.
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A man has been taken to hospital after jumping from his car just before it rolled down an embankment towards a cliff edge.
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It’s a special place, North Kelvin Meadow and Children’s Wood in Glasgow. Recently saved from development by a fierce community campaign, it’s a rare semi-wild place in the heart of the city, just south...
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Ever since Jonathan Pie began attracting attention in late 2015, the spoof news correspondent has been aggressively off-message, mocking the journalistic code that a reporter never becomes the story. His...
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Given the sheer amount of walking involved in seeing Glasgow School of Art’s undergraduate degree show – a bumper one this year, with 139 students – Georgia Thornton’s idea is a very welcome one. She invites visitors to “Take a seat” (literally)...
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I received a lovely letter this week. It was from Mary Davidson in Edinburgh and, though it was a standard letter, sent to a number of us, it was scrawled all over with all kinds of interesting hand-written additions to the basic printed message...
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This Wednesday, 6 June 2018, is the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of Edinburgh’s most illustrious sons… but many may not have heard of him. Alexander Henry was respected the world over as a manufacturer of top class sporting rifles and shotguns in the second half of the 19th century...
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Almost £60 million will be spent preserving Scotland’s heritage over the next five years, National Trust for Scotland bosses said as they announced their “most ambitious” programme.
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Dame Muriel Spark, Edinburgh’s best-known female novelist, is to be honoured in her home city to coincide with the 100th anniversary of her birth.
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IN a period of four years, Lt Alastair Cram mounted 21 escapes from 12 POW Camps, three Gestapo prisons and one asylum before finally ensuring his freedom by liberating himself from a POW column in April 1945.
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A society that celebrates Scottish culture has appointed the first woman president in its 82-year history.
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Getting away from it all or planning to explore the Scottish countryside? Pack smart and you’ll be good to go
