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Alternative Stair Art - Deco by Divine Savages

Stair Art showcases the best British designers

Alternative Flooring’s new Stair Art opens on the Design Avenue at Focus/19, with expressive patterns created in collaboration with some the best British designers. Alternative...

830,000 visitors at V&A Dundee in first year

V&A Dundee welcomed over 830,000 visitors in its first year, 330,000 more than the pre-opening estimate of 500,000 visitors. In the last 12 months the...
Marjorie Lotfi at Wigtown Book Festival (Photo: Colin Hattersley)

Scots language poem wins international poetry prize

A poem in Scots has won the annual £1,500 international Wigtown Prize for poetry for the first time. Shiftin, by Mhairi Owens, was among entries...

Spending 23 years bringing Landward to our screens

Wheels Rolling at Eight is the autobiography of former BBC Scotland television producer Arthur Anderson. It's both humorous and informative. Starting life on the family...

Dracula to be performed at its inspirational castle

Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire is widely acknowledged having inspired Dracula's castle, in Bram Stoker's famous novel. Now, award winning circus company, Modo, brings the classic...
A statue of Field Marshal Haig (Photo: M G White /Shutterstock)

Ten of Scotland’s most famous soldiers

Virtually all Wellington’s generals were Scots and almost 50 Victoria Crosses have been won by Scots. Martial prowess is in the blood – so here’s...


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