Dundee’s tribute to The Beano breaks visitor number record
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Dundee has hosted the most popular comic exhibition ever held in the UK with its tribute to The Beano.
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Could enlightenment thinking help solve our alcohol problem?
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Could the lessons of Scotland's Enlightenment hold the key to solving the problems that emerge from our long and complicated relationship with alcohol?
Scottish islanders “over the moon” after buying school
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A Scottish island with no shop, post office or pub is to get its first community building in almost 20 years.
Cows could roam free again in Highland village - 15 years after ecoli outbreak led to ban
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Cows could be free to roam once again in a west Highland village - 15 years after the tradition was hit with a ban.
New NGS exhibition shows how Toulouse-Lautrec captured the essence of fin-de-siècle Paris
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Toulouse-Lautrec and the emerging nightclub culture of late 19th century Paris were made for each other. As a new National Galleries of Scotland exhibition shows, once there the artist captured its wild appeal and helped create a generation of celebrity performers.
Music review: KT Tunstall, Liquid Room, Edinburgh
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“No one gave a f*** about a girl with a guitar back then,” says KT Tunstall, reflecting on her early days as a struggling singer-songwriter cutting her teeth. Sure; fame and money has come her way since then, but so, too, has real life in recent years.
Gin baubles: The Edinburgh distillery selling this year's must have Christmas decoration
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It was a Christmas decoration that originated in Edinburgh. But gin-filled baubles are likely to be hanging from Christmas trees all over the world this year, with their popularity soaring to new heights since the capital's own craft gin brand, Pickering's, started selling them four years ago.
Music review: Tenement Trail, various venues, Glasgow
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“Sauchiehall Street is open for business,” reads the bus shelter advert you see when you step out of Charing Cross low-level station. Yet Glasgow’s most formerly bustling road still looks like it’s hurting...
Art reviews: Helen Flockhart | Rabiya Choudhry | Paul Noble & Patrick Geddes
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The bloody, romantic fairytale of Mary, Queen of Scots is perfectly suited to Helen Flockhart’s evocative portraits, writes Susan Mansfield
Music interview: James MacMillan on a new work inspired by war poems, premiering at this year’s Cumnock Tryst
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At the heart of this year’s Cumnock Tryst Festival, themed around the Armistice Day centenary, is a major new work by the festival’s founder and director, Sir James MacMillan. It’s an oratorio based on texts by a First Word War poet...
NTS’s Futureproof project aims to give a voice to young people from all over Scotland
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Elgin and Forres, Edinburgh, Polmont, Paisley, Dundee, Glenrothes, Inverness, Aberdeen, Ayr, and the island of Unst in Shetland; try to guess what all these communities have in common, and you may struggle to come up with much, except that they are all in Scotland.
On this day 1263: Vikings and Scots clash at Battle of Largs
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The Battle of Largs brought an armada of up to 200 Viking ships to the west coast but the planned onslaught of Norsemen was weakened by a sudden and powerful autumn storm.
Video: Ten idyllic Scottish coastal retreats
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Whatever your reason for escaping to the coast, Scotland has no shortage of peaceful villages to help you drop down a gear.
No new Michelin stars for Scottish restaurants as chefs question value of awards
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The Michelin star winners of 2019 have been revealed - and nine Scotland eateries have retained their coveted Michelin stars.
The castles built by Scotland’s opium barons
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The Highland family who raised vast amounts of wealth from the 19th Century opium trade in China embedded their fortune in the walls of several castles and trophy homes built on their return to Scotland.
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