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A fundraising campaign has been launched to preserve a lifeboat museum on Orkney as it prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of a disaster which claimed the lives of eight crewmen including two fathers and their sons.
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Brexit has been compared to the Highland Clearances with a “rich, privileged, entitled” elite again pushing Scots to the cliff edge, a Scottish Government minister has claimed.
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Samara Scott creates a portrait of Glasgow through its detritus, while Jamie Crewe’s stop-motion film revisits the story of Orpheus and Eurydice
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An unscripted rendition of Auld Land Syne marked the official opening of Holyrood on this day in 2004.
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They may have counted up their halfpennies and farthings back in the day, but in 2018 Scotland’s historical figures are going contactless like the rest of us.
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One of Scotland’s most successful authors has warned the mass influx of tourists to Edinburgh is at risk of “tearing up the fabric of the city”.
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One in four of us will be affected by a mental health condition. Why is it that while most of us feel quite confident talking to family and friends about our physical aches and pains, we are not so comfortable to talk about our mental health?
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A memorial has been cast for a Jacobite soldier who fought in the 1745 rebellion and is remembered for an almost “supernatural” act on the battlefield.
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A Danish billionaire who owns 11 estates in the Highlands has now been named as the largest landowner in the UK.
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Dundee’s V&A museum has notched up 100,000 visitors in just over three weeks since it opened its doors to the public.
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It is that time of the year again when we can officially wave goodbye to summertime - and as the seasons change, so do our clocks.
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The mercury could rise to 21C in parts of western Scotland this week - ten degrees above the October average.
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A new collection of photographs casts St Kilda in a fresh light by balancing the island’s little recorded human and military presence against its wild natural beauty.
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In the long and rich history of Irish absurdism, there have been two main strands. The first, pioneered by James Joyce and Flann O’Brien, is the narrative that brings a surreal and wildly inventive perspective to Irish places and communities...
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Something special happened on Saturday evening. It was the centrepiece of this year’s Cumnock Tryst – a programme that fully embraced the ethos of the festival founded five years ago by the Ayrshire town’s local-boy-done-good...
