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KT Tunstall joins the line-up for Burns&Beyond

KT Tunstall, Blue Rose Code and Pictish Trail have been added to this year's Burns&Beyond event. Unique Events, organisers of Burns&Beyond with Johnnie Walker, today...

The struggles of a community fighting to survive

Shrouded in negative stereotypes and widely misunderstood, the Scottish travelling community are at the forefront of this novel. Lorn Macintyre has created characters with real...
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Today’s the last chance to see Linda McCartney’s work

The Linda McCartney Retrospective - a major photographic exhibition, which is curated by Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney - closes in Glasgow today. Located at...

A celebration of Edinburgh’s New Town architecture

I’m not normally an avid reader of architectural volumes. But this collection of essays which reflects on the intellectual, economic and political contexts which provided...

The games master who enjoys a good Stramash

Tony Mitchell took a homemade board game that he used to play with his friends and turned it into an international hit. Mention the word...
Making Starred Up was a gruelling process for David Mackenzie

From Pitlochry to the big screen with director David Mackenzie

Engineering and the military’s loss is movie-making’s gain as Scottish film director David Mackenzie blazes a trail. At age 19, David got the chance to...


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