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Book review – Loch Maree’s Missing Sea Trout

What’s the story? Jaffa has long maintained that salmon farms are not to blame for the decline of wild salmon and sea trout stocks in...

Honest Alastair returns a ‘lost’ library book to Stornoway

Most of us have encountered a fine when borrowing books from our local libraries and returning them late. But the honesty of Alastair McIntosh has...

A fantastic return with Calum Stewart’s new album

Calum Stewart inspires with Tales from the North, a superb new solo album that challenges the conception that Uilleann pipes are the preserve of Irish...
Cilla - The Musical comes to His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen later this year

Tickets are now on sale for two outstanding musicals

Two new spectacular star-studded shows to hit His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen for first time. Aberdeen Performing Arts (APA) will welcome both the fashionable, Olivier...
Sherlock’s elementary roots inspired the new tartan. Pictured as Holmes is Harry Chamberlain, with designer Tania Henzell

A study in tartan as Sherlock Holmes is in fashion

Sherlock Holmes has become the first literary character to have his own tartan approved by the Scottish Register of Tartans. The Great Detective was created...

Book review – The Day She Saved the Doctor

What’s the story? To mark International Womens Day 2018, BBC Books have released Doctor Who - The Day She Saved The Doctor. Containing a quartet...


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