Seeing friends’ holiday photos on Facebook ‘makes people sad’
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Nine in ten Facebook users admit they feel low when they see their friends’ posts about travel, new research has found.
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Are these markings the handprint of a Pictish man?
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Archaeologists believe they have discovered the hand markings of a Pictish man on an anvil found in Orkney.
Art review: Christine Borland: To the Power of Twelve, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute
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Since the contemporary visual art programme at Mount Stuart began 16 years ago, an impressive array of artists have made work in response to the neo-gothic country retreat of the Marquesses of Bute, its collections and its history.
OTD 1394: Wolf of Badenoch dies after chess game with devil
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Alexander Stewart, the Earl of Buchan, earned several nicknames during his lifetime given his loathsome reputation for murder, violence and fire raising.
You can bank on luxury
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The disgraced former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Fred “the Shred” Goodwin, was a man obsessed by detail.
Scottish poet Robin Robertson makes Booker longlist
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The Scottish poet Robin Robertson has made the 13-strong longlist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize with a lyrical story about a D-Day veteran who has post-traumatic stress disorder.
Commercial property: Tech transforms traditional tastes
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Edinburgh has a tech sector worth £1.14bn which has seen jobs increase over three times the UK average between 2014 and 2017.
Channel 4 reveals shortlist for new national HQ location
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Birmingham, Greater Manchester and Leeds are all in the running to host Channel 4’s new national headquarters, the broadcaster has announced, while the three cities will also join Glasgow, Bristol and Cardiff in the running for the creation of two new creative hubs.
In pictures: The lost ways of island life
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They capture everyday life in the islands along with the lost skills, tools and chores that underpinned survival in Scotland’s far reaches for generations.
Rebel Roots: New study of Edinburgh subcultures through time
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The youth subcultures that thrived in Edinburgh from the 1960s onwards will be brought into fresh focus in a new study of the tribes that took root in the city.
OTD 1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie arrives in Scotland
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Posing as an Irish priest, Bonnie Prince Charlie arrived in Eriksay 273 years ago today to launch the uprising that would end in bloody defeat at the Battle of Culloden.
Chapter One of Territorial Rights by Muriel Spark, with an introduction by Kapka Kassabova
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Venice was very much his territory; it changed less than other places with the passing of time,’ we are told early on by a brisk narrator. This one-sentence masterclass in narrative brevity introduces us to one of the themes and two of the characters in this deliciously black burlesque...
Review: Dacia Duster
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In a few years Dacia has become well-known and liked in Britain. The Romanian national brand, now part of Renault, sells on price and customer word of mouth. In the annual J D Power survey it sits seventh for dependability judged by owners.
TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer to be ‘rebooted’
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Cult TV favourite Buffy The Vampire Slayer is being remade - more than 20 years after the first episode.
Music review: Noel Gallagher’s High-Flying Birds
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“I can see by the amount of polo shirts and bald heads that there are some Oasis fans in,” said Noel Gallagher, bowing to rub the top of his own perfectly-preserved hair, before delivering the punchline...
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