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The Johann Strauss Gala tour is coming to Scotland

A celebration of the king of the waltz is coming to Scotland - with music and dance. The Raymond Gubbay production the Johann Strauss Gala...
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Crime writers will be murder on the football pitch

Crime writers from all over the country are coming together for the Bloody Scotland festival this weekend - and it will be murder! Bloody Scotland...
Scotland’s new National Centre for Children’s Literature and Storytelling Centre, and pictured in Moat Brae House’s cupula gallery are Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust chairman Dame Barbara Kelly (right) and project director Cathy Agnew. (Photo: Colin Hattersley)

It’s not a tall tale – storytelling centre is on the way

A first glimpse inside the newly restored Moat Brae House, where Peter Pan began, has revealed the extent of the work undertaken to save a...
Brora Primary's P5 class looking at the sieving machine

Get ready to step back in time in the Highlands

A special celebration of Highland heritage is to get underway later this month. For three weeks, from Friday 28 September, the Highland Archaeology Festival will...
Sir Thomas Lipton

The Scot who brought tea to the whole world

All over the world, people love their tea - and the man who made it an internationally popular beverage is to be celebrated in a...
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No papering over the cracks at book festival

Interior decoration with wallpaper is nothing new - but to hang it on the outside of a building is definitely unique. Artist Astrid Jaekel has...