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Gene and Patricia Kelly at the Carousel of Hope Ball in Beverly Hills, 1990.

Gene Kelly’s widow: ‘He used song to reveal intimate parts of his life’

Patricia Kelly, the wife and biographer of legendary dancer, choreographer and director, Gene Kelly, is surrounded by tourists at Edinburgh Castle as she poses in...
Forested landscape, Scottish Highlands © Mark Hamblin medium

Book examines returning wild lynx to Scotland

A new publication is looking at pros and cons of reintroducing lynx to Scotland. Published by Scotland: The Big Picture, it looks at what thing...

Book review: Japanese Whisky by Brian Ashcraft

What’s the story? Japanese whisky has been around for less than a century, and this book by Brian Ashcraft, with Idzuhiko Ueda and Yuji Kawasaki,...
Man of Iron, by Julian Glover

The life of Thomas Telford to be marked at festival

Thomas Telford is one of the most influential Scots of the last couple of hundred years - and yet he's largely anonymous in the land...

Rockpools and Daffodils by George Mackay Brown

What’s the story? Rockpools and Daffodils is a collection of diary entries by the celebrated Scots poet George Mackay Brown, written weekly for The Orcadian...
Ian Hendry (centre) and Patrick Macnee (right) were the original Avengers

‘Lost’ episode of TV legend returns on DVD

Patrick Macnee was a British TV legend and one of the biggest stars of the sixties. Long before Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America and...


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