Santa’s Grotto will raise money for children’s hospital

By Kenny Smith | November 22, 2018

The Edinburgh Jenners store will once again open the doors to its magical Christmas grotto next weekend. From Saturday 1 December, the festive grotto will offer Edinburgh’s children a truly enchanting experience like no other. Children, along with their family and friends, will enter the grotto on the lower ground floor, next to the Hamley’s toy…

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Four new books about Shetland’s War to be launched

By Kenny Smith | August 13, 2018

The first of four books about Shetland’s role in the First World War will be launched later this month. The are being published by Shetland Library in partnership with the Shetland Museum and Archives. In 1916, Shetland brothers Charlie and Willie Abernethy served together in the trenches at the Somme as ordinary soldiers in the…

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Third restaurant is definitely top of the Chops

By Kenny Smith | June 1, 2018

All of a sudden, Edinburgh’s Bruntsfield is the place to be. Tom Kitchin is soon to open there, and it appears that the curly-haired impressario is being followed by Uncle Tom Cobley and all his foodie mates. However, Michael Spink and Mark Fraser have beaten them all to it with the third – and biggest…

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Scots fiddler and Austrian piper produce a sumptuous nugget

By Kenny Smith | May 22, 2018

The Pipe Slang is a translation from the Gaelic song Feadan glan a’ phiobair, a tune of which Simon Fraser comments in the appendix to his famous 1874 collection. “In the words of the pipe slang, the noisy rattling piper of a country wedding draws a ridiculous comparison betwixt his own music and that of…

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Council donates obsolete Trust funds to cancer charity

By Reporter | November 26, 2017

A Scottish council has given almost half a million pounds to a cancer charity. Perth and Kinross Council is donating nearly £450,000 to Macmillan Cancer Support from a trust fund administered by the council where the purpose can no longer be fulfilled in the modern day. The local authority has been reorganising a number of…

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