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Crewel Chicks Stitching group portrait for the Great Tapestry of Scotland project. Photographed with the panel of James Hutton at Siccar Point in Berwickshire, Scotland
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Search for a director at major new tourist site

Culture

The hunt is on for someone to run a major new tourist attraction which will house The Great Tapestry of Scotland. Applications are being sought...

DNA is showing the bloodlines of clans and chiefs

Culture | Scotland

The emergence of DNA profiling has had a huge impact upon fields as diverse as criminology, medicine and insurance, but it also has implications for...

HMS Rattlesnake (Photo: State Library of Victoria)

The Scot who was a real-life Robinson Crusoe

Culture

The tale of Robinson Crusoe is a familiar one, but less well known is the story of a young Scottish girl who, 170 years ago,...

Big names will descend on Glasgow for film festival

Film & TV

A full programme has been announced for Glasgow Film Festival 2019. Across 12 days, the city-wide celebration of cinema will feature 337 individual screenings, talks...

Robert Burns (Chris Tait) and Dr Margo Whiteford

400 address the haggis at Burns Supper in Glasgow

Culture

A total of 400 people addressed the haggis at Glasgow’s biggest Burns supper. Now in its 28th year, Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland’s A Question of...