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Organisers of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations have defended the revival of a controversial volunteering scheme – but say lessons will be learned from its introduction last year.
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Dressed in their distinctive uniforms of blue frocks and white aprons, 27 women staged a breakout of the Glasgow Magdalene Institution in Maryhill and scattered through the city streets 60 years ago this week.
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Health campaigners have hit out over plans to give away tens of thousands of free drams to revellers at Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations for the first time.
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Controversial may as well be Frankie Boyle’s first name. He has built a career on presenting himself as an iconoclast, shocking at every opportunity. And if that’s your sort of thing, his first foray into...
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Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead is both a love letter to his home city of Detroit and a meditation on cities in general
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Breaking News is a fascinating and at times irritating book, succinctly described in its subtitle: “The Remaking Of Journalism And Why It Matters Now.” Alan Rusbridger was editor of the Guardian from 1995 to 2015.
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Castles, abbeys and barracks across Scotland have lit up in a celebration of Gaelic and Scots with a new poem beamed across the historic sites.
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Mary Queen of Scots begged Elizabeth over and over to ‘Be as my sister’, sending the English Queen letter after letter.
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A hillwalker who wanted to bed down in a bothy at a rural beauty spot has slated a ‘loophole’ which allows smokers to light up in them - despite the nationwide ban.
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This week, contractors engaged by South Ayrshire Council have extended the exclusion zone around Ayr Station Hotel for safety reasons.
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We couldn’t do justice to No Mean City again so let’s have something new, writes Aidan Smith
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Major new investment has been pledged for Dundee on the back of its V&A museum opening to transform it into one of Scotland’s top tourism destinations.
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Tourists visiting island beauty spots are putting them at risk of erosion by building rock formations – so they can post snaps on Instagram, conservationists have said.
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A mysterious medieval key that was likely used to lock a casket full of private papers is among a collection of new items on show to mark the 125th anniversary of a small Scottish museum.
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Paris, Mexico City and...Campbeltown on the Kintyre peninsula. Just some of the few places in the world where an atmospheric cinema can still be found.
