Boost for controversial flats plan at Aberdeen quarry
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A controversial scheme to build 299 flats at a historic Aberdeen quarry is a step closer to being approved.
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Boost for controversial flats plan at Granite City quarry
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A controversial scheme to build 299 flats at a historic Aberdeen quarry is a step closer to being approved.
Remains of possible Iron Age settlement found in Caithness
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Remains of a previously unknown prehistoric settlement may have been found by archaeologists working in the far north of Scotland.
Five properties formally owned by famous Scottish poets and painters
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From humble cottages to gargantuan estates, we take a peek inside the homes of some of the most famous Scottish painters and poets.
In pictures: How to make your own Scottish morning rolls
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Morning rolls are one of Scotland’s best loved foods, Scottish food writer Fraser Wright provides a recipe on how to make your own.
The Scottish castle with a pit prison
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If you like your history gruesome, follow in the footsteps of the murderers and vagabonds of the pit prison at Cardoness Castle.
Tour guide fell to his death ‘photographing a puffin’
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A “happy and popular” tour guide fell 50 metres to his death while trying to photograph a puffin on Orkney.
14 million new trees planted in Scotland
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Around 14 million new trees were planted in Scotland last year with £33m paid to landowners to create new woodland.
Five Scottish painters' and poets' houses
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From humble cottages to gargantuan estates, we take a peek inside the homes of some of the most famous Scottish painters and poets.
Edinburgh’s festivals told not to leave volunteers ‘out of pocket’
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Edinburgh’s festivals are to be ordered to ensure volunteers recruited to help at events are not left “out of pocket” in future.
Edinburgh festivals told not to leave volunteers ‘out of pocket’
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festivals in the Capital will be ordered to make sure volunteers recruited to help at events are not left “out of pocket” in future.
Number crunching the Scottish ski industry’s best winter in five years
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At about this time last year, James Mackintosh, manager of the Lecht ski centre, gave me his views on the future of the Scottish ski industry. With very little snowfall to speak of, and rapid thaws when the snow did come...
Brewery's prize to help propel Scotland's rising trad music stars
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Scottish brewers Belhaven are to instigate one of Scotland’s most lucrative cultural prizes to boost rising stars of the nation’s traditional music scene.
Book review: Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje
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Late in Michael Ondaatje’s remarkable new novel, the narrator, working in a department of an unnamed branch of the secret service, writes “In this post-war world, twelve years later, it felt to some of us...
Book review: Alone, by Christophe Chabouté
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In a world that seems to get faster and shoutier by the minute, the gentle, slow-burning graphic novels of French artist Christophe Chabouté feel like little oases of calm. Faber & Faber published...
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