Police investigate damage to ancient Highland burial cairn
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Police are investigating deliberate damage to an ancient burial cairn in the Highlands which is more than 5,000 years old.
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Can Charles Rennie Mackintosh's iconic Glasgow School of Art be saved?
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After undergoing a painstaking rebuild for the last four years, Glasgow’s School of Art has been left in ruin following a second devastating fire.
Which roads remain closed following the Glasgow Art School fire?
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Glasgow is still reeling from yet another potentially devastating fire at the iconic Mackintosh building at the Glasgow School of Art in the city’s Sauchiehall Street.
Name new town after Bonnie Prince Charlie, historian says
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Battlefield experts are calling for a new town in East Lothian to be named after Bonnie Prince Charlie given the significance of the land to the first encounter of the 1745 Jacobite rising.
‘Game over’ for some video games addicts, WHO warns
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The World Health Organisation says that compulsively playing video games now qualifies as a new mental health condition.
Festival review: The Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival, Melrose
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Ah, the Noughties; I remember them well. Back then, if you read the newspapers, you’d have a fair sense of what was going to happen, who was going to be the next PM, and when and how. The future seemed comparatively predictable.
Story of 18th century Yorkshire gang wins Walter Scott Prize
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A novel about an 18th century gang of Yorkshire counterfeiters has been declared the winner of Britain’s biggest Prize for historical fiction at the Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival.
Glasgow’s ‘ring’ of rock art sheds light on prehistory
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Prehistoric people are likely to have lived in a number of settlements scattered around present-day Glasgow, given the abundance of ancient rock art in the area, research has found
Counterfeiting story is the real deal, say prize judges
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A novel about an 18th century gang of Yorkshire counterfeiters has been declared the winner of Britain’s biggest Prize for historical fiction at the Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival
What is Edinburgh’s favourite sport, ask Monopoly makers
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Makers of a new official Monopoly board honouring Edinburgh want to know which sport is most popular in the capital.
Most remote hostel in UK opens at Cape Wrath lighthouse
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Perched atop a 300 foot cliff and a bombing range, the remotest hostel on mainland UK has opened its doors.
Fathers seek more flexible working to look after children
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One in five Scottish fathers have adopted some form of flexible working so that they can look after their children more, a survey has revealed.
Review: Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace
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Volkswagen has introduced a longer seven-seat version of its Tiguan, called Allspace. You can run it as a three, four, five, six or seven-seater depending on how many seats you fold away. What’s left can be used for luggage.
Chapter One of The Abbess of Crewe, by Muriel Spark
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Watergate prompted Muriel Spark to write The Abbess of Crewe in 1974, relocating the machinations of the White House to an English provincial convent. In today’s Scotsman, the novelist Ali Smith argues that its deft and funny dissection of the scandal belies its real target ...
Jane Bradley: 90s TV proves society’s big changes
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In recent months, I’ve taken to watching nostalgic 90s box sets. I’m not sure if it’s a symptom of trying to cling onto my dying youth, but the likes of Ally McBeal, My So Called Life, The Gilmore Girls - and most recently...
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