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Award-winning short film heading for Scots cinemas

An award winning short film shot on the isle of Iona starring Doctor Who stars Frazer Hines and Caitlin Blackwood is to be rolled out...

Orkney is one of the book’s big characters

The Orkney island of Sanday in the middle of winter becomes a character in its own right in Lin Anderson’s novel in the Rhona MacLeod...
Vintage Tractors, with photography by Allan Wright

New book tracks down Scotland’s old tractors

Award-winning photographer Allan Wright is intent on capturing a lost army - an army that is, of largely abandoned Vintage Tractors. Roaming Scotland’s stunning coastal...

Eight in ten Scots parents don’t get kids’ slang

New research finds 82% of Scottish parents don’t understand their children's modern day slang. ‘Obvs’, 'savage', ‘sick’, 'squad' and ‘awks’ among the words most commonly...

A history of Scotland is brought to book

Scotland: A history from the earliest times from popular historian Alistair Moffat presents the story of Scotland from the Ice Age right through to today....
A portrait of James Clerk Maxwell

The Scotsman who was a hero to Albert Einstein

When Albert Einstein, perhaps the most famous physicist of all time, published his special theory of relativity in 1905, he used the opening sentence to...


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