Scottish Opera’s youth company present Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas

By Reporter | February 7, 2017

Scottish Opera’s Connect Company – made up of talented young singers, instrumentalists and stage managers aged between 16 and 21 – presents Purcell’s chamber opera, Dido and Aeneas, at the Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock this Spring. Over one weekend (8 and 9 April), the Company stages three performances of this tragic tale of love…

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Etape Loch Ness brings cycling spectacle to the Highlands

By Reporter | April 22, 2015

The roads around one of the most famous lochs in the world will be taken over by more than 3,300 cyclists who have snapped every last place for Etape Loch Ness 2015. The sell-out closed road event will see riders of all abilities set off in the early hours of this Sunday, (26 April) on a…

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Head to head….

By Peter Ranscombe | April 14, 2011

Monday April 11th…. With Almost Blue and Commercial Express having won their previous starts it was bound to be a hotly contested race when they were forced into taking each other on at Morpeth yesterday, the trainer couldn’t split them and neither could the market which opened up with Uncle & Nephew as 6-4 joint favourites for…

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