Selected by David Underdown, who also writes the commentary. The day the marks made sense by Imtiaz Dharker When my finger pushed at the marks jumbled on a page and stumbled on the word g i r l, when ...
East is in a no-trump contract. South having led the ♦A, North/South to make nine tricks. ...
Across 1 Don’s made a mess with CIA (8) 5 Clasp ensures poplars are trapped (6) 9 Doles one out and freed (8) 10 Cop arrests damaged free delays (6) 11&ensp...
From Patricia Gibson MP, North Ayrshire & Arran Following the Panama Papers leak, which lifted the lid on the elaborate tax avoidance techniques employed by wealthy individuals – including a num...
Nurdles are small plastic pellets about the size of a lentil. Countless billion are used each year to make nearly all our plastic products but many end up washing up on our shores. Spills and mishandl...
Seeing the pictures of the collapsed half-finished Kolkata overpass took me back very vividly to some time I spent there in a small hotel just by that very roundabout. I’ve walked along that roa...
Trade unions are calling for strong action on climate change, with policies to support workers affected in the switch to a low carbon economy. Speakers from the STUC, PCS and UNISON called at the Scot...
The film to be shown on May 8th at 8.00pm is Leviathan, directed by Andrey Zvyaginstev (Russia 2014 – Cert 15). This is a sober and compelling tragic drama set in contemporary Russia, in which a...
COAST have asked all local candidates and leaders of the main political parties for their views on effective marine management and the inclusion of coastal communities on marine decision making groups...
Arran Community Land Initiative (ACLI) are supporting and encouraging low carbon living on Arran in the year ahead with the help of a grant from the Climate Challenge Fund (CCF). Enhancing projects al...