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Get ready to see in the New Year from the comfort of home

BBC Scotland has an extended Hogmanay offering of music, chat and entertainment plus celebrations from around the country as the country counts down to 2020....
Mark Cox as a senior uniformed officer, Alex Norton as Taggart's DI Burke, Jonathan Watson as Line of Duty's DS Steve Arnott, Joy McAvoy as Line of Duty's DI Kate Fleming  (Photo: BBC Scotland)

It’s more than a game in Only An Excuse

As 2019 rapidly approaches the final whistle, Scotland’s annual tradition of Only An Excuse returns for its annual kick of the ball. New signings join...

Bringing seaweed into every day cooking

Most of us have eaten food containing seaweed, but few of us will have actually cooked with it, something that BBC Masterchef finalist Fiona Bird...
The Kelpies will feature in Scotland's Year of Coasts and Waters

Wave of excitement for Year of Coasts and Waters 2020

Visitors and locals across Scotland are invited to ‘dip their toes’ into Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters 2020 with a range of early-year activity...

A pagan icon is found in dramatic novel

The deeply unpopular Reverend Burnett gets hold of a pagan icon that has been unearthed in his village, in Silma Hill. When the person who...

Barney Thomson – the barber a cut above the rest

Scots-born author Douglas Lindsay had written seven novels about Barney Thomson before Hollywood took note and propelled his character onto the big screen in a...


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