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The Last Supper busts  (Photo: Colin Hattersley)

Edinburgh Cathedral exhibits The Last Supper in busts

A collection of life sized busts of Jesus and the apostles, made from fragments of crockery, is on display on the High Altar of Edinburgh’s...
Alan Cumming with his honorary doctorate from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Photo: Robert McFadzean)

Scots star Alan Cumming honoured with doctorate

He’s the global actor, author and activist with an eclectic and electrifying career. Alan Cumming, the Scots-born superstar of stage and screen – and much...
Aaron Akugbo

Beautiful music in beautiful places at Lammermuir Festival

This year’s Lammermuir Festival returns to live performance with 14 days of 37 concerts at eight venues across East Lothian. The festival runs from September...

A crime thriller in a turbulent period of history

Scottish crime fiction is a wonderfully rich and diverse area, as authors all over the land create their own characters and scenarios, with murders to...

A moving novel with a forgotten Scottish shame

In 1950s Scotland, thousands of children were removed from their families for a ‘better life’ in the rural idyll of the Scottish Highlands as ‘boarded-out’...

Finding what it means to be Scottish post-Brexit

What does it mean to be Scottish? According to the film Trainspotting (and I'll paraphrase by removing the expletives)... It's not great being Scottish. We're...


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