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Nicola Benedetti returns with online teaching videos

Culture | Music
The Benedetti Foundation has announced the return of the With Nicky Series - an online series of educational videos from Scots violinist Nicola Benedetti. These...
The European Pipe Band Championships took place in Bught Park, Inverness in June 2019

European Pipe Band Championships cancelled

Culture
The organisers of Piping Inverness, which incorporates the European Pipe Band Championships, has cancelled this year’s event. The competition was scheduled to take place on...

Separating Robert the Bruce facts from the fiction

Books | Reviews | Scotland
Few figures from Scotland’s history have captivated so many generations, across both Scotland and the world, as Robert The Bruce. In Stephen Spinks’ book, Robert...

A crime thriller that will grip you from page one

Books | Reviews | Scotland
By the fifth line of Dugald Bruce-Lockhart’s debut novel, I was totally invested in the plot of The Lizard. Lulled into thinking the protagonist a...
Damian Barr with his signed copy of Quentin Crisp's work

Scots Booker Prize winner chats about his cultural loves

Culture | Scotland
A new of Shelf Isolation series kicks off this Sunday, February 28 with a special episode. Presenter Damian Barr chats with writer Douglas Stuart about...

Gaelic language to be celebrated at poetry festival

Culture
StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, is celebrating the Gaelic language through a number of events and readings at this year’s annual festival which has moved...
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