Sponsored Content | Scotland’s Hot Property Market: How Bridging Finance Helps You Compete

Sponsored Content | Scotland’s property market is no stranger to intense competition. From family homes in Edinburgh and Glasgow to remote Highland retreats and charming coastal cottages, the race to secure a dream home or investment property has become increasingly fierce. Whether you’re a first-time buyer looking to secure your ideal starter home or a…

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Travel Review, Knipoch Hotel: ‘A visit to Knipoch is like taking a deep, restorative breath of crisp, cleansing Highland air’

I knew that Shakespeare’s singular Scottish play, Macbeth, was set in Scotland, of course, but I had no idea that the murder that inspired it supposedly happened in the dining room of the Knipoch Hotel, a cosy little bolthole just three miles outside Oban, writes Eilidh Tuckett. No, this isn’t a Highland edition of Cluedo,…

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Fringe Reviews: Circa: Wolf, Garry Starr & Ascension

Circa: Wolf is an astonishing, feral acrobatic spectacle, says Frankie Reason. ★★★★ Performers snarl at one another from across the stage, negotiating, imitating one another’s movements, and the ‘pack’ repeatedly forms and disperses, repelling any lone wolves that attempt to penetrate the fold.  The choreography is charged with an unexpected intimacy, raw and animalistic, bodies…

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Edinburgh International Festival: Mary, Queen of Scots, Orpheus and Eurydice & Book of Mountains and Seas

Dramatic, intimate, and visually striking – Sophie Laplane and James Bonas’s brand new ballet, Mary Queen of Scots, is a gothic reimagining of the young queen’s life, says Frankie Reason. ★★★★★ The story unfolds through the fragmented recollections of an elderly Elizabeth, brought to life by Swedish dancer Charlotta Öfverholm, and the curtains open on…

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