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Lead singer of Primal Scream Bobby Gillespie

V&A Dundee opening attracts Scots music stars

A free two-day celebration of design, music and performance will mark the opening of V&A Dundee. Legendary Scottish rockers Primal Scream will headline the 3D...

Book review – 1824: The World’s First Football Club

Queen's Park Football Club are acknowledged as Scotland's oldest football club, having been founded in 1867. But Hampden Park's finest weren't the first team in...

You can’t help but take note of Susie’s work

Calligrapher and painter Susie Leiper is surrounded by quills and a range of Chinese brushes in her bright Edinburgh New Town mews studio. You may...

Congratulations – Songwriter to the Stars

In this engrossing autobiography, Bill Martin, one of the most successful and prolific songwriters of the last few decades, tells not only the story of...
Dr Stacey Hunter (design curator) and Susan McKay (commercial director at Glasgow Chamber of Commerce) at the Local Heroes launch

They’ve got designs on glory during Glasgow event

A new exhibition and shop created to coincide with the European Championships is set to open this weekend. Made In Glasgow by Local Heroes  is...

Book review – The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram

David M Guss has written the barely believable story of Alastair Cram, a Scottish prisoner of war who attempted a record 21 prison escapes during...