Channel 5 to launch UK version of dating show The Bachelor 31 Aug 2018 15:41 Living by the Sword A UK version of the dating TV show The Bachelor will air on Channel 5 next year, the broadcaster has announced.
Celebrated Dundee record store Groucho's set to be sold off 31 Aug 2018 10:34 Living by the Sword It has been hailed as one of the coolest record shops in Britain for more than 40 years - counting members of The Smiths, Fleetwood Mac, The Damned and Deacon Blue among its customers.
Artist Rachel Maclean unveils 'dystopian world' created for new feature film 30 Aug 2018 15:22 Living by the Sword One of Scotland’s leading multi-media visual artists has revealed the first glimpse into a dystopian world she has created for a new movie in which a group of women are trapped in a cruel reality TV-style competition.
Book review: The Way Of All Flesh, by Ambrose Parry 30 Aug 2018 12:28 Living by the Sword The Way Of All Flesh begins, as so many hackneyed crime novels have done before, with a man standing over the dead body of a young female prostitute; “just another deid hoor” as a character remarks later.
Profile: Kirsty Young’s 30-year career in broadcasting 30 Aug 2018 11:44 Living by the Sword Kirsty Young was born in East Kilbride and attended Stirling High School before starting her career in broadcasting as a continuity announcer for BBC Radio Scotland in 1989.
Frightened Rabbit to perform at Glasgow 'Sleep in the Park' event 30 Aug 2018 11:18 Living by the Sword Indie-rock band Frightened Rabbit are to play their first gig since singer Scott Hutchison’s tragic death in May - as part of the country-wide “Sleep in the Park” event in December.
Women ‘banned’ from joining Up Helly Aa on Shetland 30 Aug 2018 11:03 Living by the Sword Fresh calls have been made to let women to join the main Up Helly Aa celebration of Shetland’s Viking past after a mixed sex squad was reportedly banned from taking part.
Rare chance to buy disused station on Scottish rail network 30 Aug 2018 06:33 Living by the Sword It is a two-bedroom village home that will admit its new owners to an exclusive club – living in a former station on a working railway.
Edinburgh city leaders face demand to make streets ‘traffic-free’ for festivals 30 Aug 2018 05:00 Living by the Sword City council chiefs are facing demands to ban traffic from key thoroughfares during the main Edinburgh Festival season amid claims they are now “intolerable” for people to walk down in August.
Treasures found by public in Outer Hebrides go on show 29 Aug 2018 19:48 Living by the Sword Archaeological finds made by chance across the Outer Hebrides are to go on show in an island museum.
Treasures found by public in Outer to Hebrides go on show 29 Aug 2018 19:48 Living by the Sword Archaeological finds made by chance across the Outer Hebrides are to go on show in an island museum.
Rare Scottish clan artefact dug out of rubble after 400 years 29 Aug 2018 12:26 Living by the Sword A student archaeologist has uncovered a rare Scottish ancient clan artefact under mounds of rubble -- after being hidden for 400 years.
Book review: The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker 29 Aug 2018 10:53 Living by the Sword The epigraph of Pat Barker’s new novel is taken from Philip Roth. “You know how European literature begins?” says the teacher in The Human Stain. “With a quarrel. All European literature springs from a...
Book review: To Provide All People, by Owen Sheers 29 Aug 2018 10:50 Living by the Sword In a decade and a half of reviewing books for this newspaper, I have never once felt strongly that a new publication should be made compulsory reading; after all, if history has taught us anything it’s that...
Holly Willoughby confirmed to co-host I’m A Celebrity with Declan Donnelly 29 Aug 2018 09:52 Living by the Sword This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby will co-host I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! with Declan Donnelly in the next series, ITV said.