Living by the Sword
Apart from the odd boat tour and visiting wildlife ranger sent to check on its impressive population of seabirds and seals, the Isle of May has long been abandoned by humans.
Living by the Sword
British people have long been renowned as notoriously bad at speaking foreign languages when compared to our neighbours on the European mainland.
Living by the Sword
A family have visited all 1,000 Wetherspoon pubs in the UK after their autistic son held them to a “throwaway” comment they made a decade ago.
Living by the Sword
All good theatre has a message of sorts; as an act of communication, a show always says something, even if it’s only that life is short, and we might as well tap dance and be merry. Sometimes, though,...
Living by the Sword
William Boyd’s new novel is characteristically enjoyable. Set in Scotland, France of the Belle Epoque, Tsarist Russia, Switzerland, and finally, if oddly, the Andaman Islands, the narrative moves at an agreeable pace ...
Living by the Sword
Only an aching heart,” wrote William Butler Yeats in his mighty 1923 poem, “Meditations in Time of Civil War”, “conceives a changeless work of art.” Of course, there’s more than a slim chance that Yeats...
Living by the Sword
A Netflix horror thriller set in the Highlands and filmed in a country park in West Lothian is leading the running for BAFTA Scotland honours this year.
Living by the Sword
A huge Halloween celebration is to be staged on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill for the first time - by the organisers of the Beltane Fire Festival.
Living by the Sword
Research has been conducted by Children in Scotland, the National Autistic Society Scotland and Scottish Autism into the experiences of autistic children missing school.
Living by the Sword
It will finally provide a fitting home for Scotland’s greatest art treasures and end decades of “institutional embarrassment” over how they are shown.
Living by the Sword
While Marbella has become a well-known destination for those looking for a celebrity-style holiday, and Puerto Banus is a millionaire’s playground, Estepona can often be an overlooked destination on this charming part of Spain’s popular Costa del Sol.
Living by the Sword
Protestors will gather at the site of a new housing development near Culloden Battlefield as diggers break ground on the land.
Living by the Sword
Ten years after he set up innovative Edinburgh record label Song, by Toad, Matthew Young is calling it a day. But not before sitting down with Fiona Shepherd to look back at some of the albums he’s released...
Living by the Sword
The remains of a 13th Century friar have been discovered near Stirling with a belt buckle found on the body of the young man helping archaeologists to solve the mystery over his identity.
Living by the Sword
There are not many singers out there who could kick off their concert with songs of the calibre of Don’t Make Me Over and Walk On By and still have somewhere to go but that remains a measure of what composers...
