Jim Henderson sends an account of his travels this summer through some of Scotland’s other islands. The first section appears here, and there will be more in subsequent issues. I left Arran our ...
Tim Pomeroy, long known on Arran as a brilliant sculptor, has been offered a one-man show in the centre of London’s West End, at the Fine Art Society in New Bond Street. It will run from Novembe...
For this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, the Scottish playwright, Rona Munro, was commissioned to write a series of three plays on the lives of James I (The Key Will Keep the Lock), Jam...
Philippa Whitford will be speaking in the social area of Arran High School on 28th November, 7 pm for 7.30. Philippa is a highly qualified breast cancer specialist, and is passionate about the need to...
David Cameron’s love-affair with fracking reached a new level of passion when the industry’s plan to to drill under our homes was rubber-stamped by the House of Lords – but even wors...
Across 1 Wasted on gin in the shed? It’ll all be over soon (3,3,2,4) 8 A cert to be drunk on board ship with leading lady (8) 9 How a German might be heard to de...
selected by David Underdown, who supplies the footnote Late Air by Elizabeth Bishop From a magician’s midnight sleeve the radio-singers distribute all their love-songs over the dew-wet lawns. An...
The Edinburgh Festival and Fringe remains as exciting for me now as it was when I was a little girl growing up in Edinburgh in the fifties when it was all very new. In those days I might expect to go ...
Our final week in Australia was filled – as our whole holiday had been – with new experiences, conflicting emotions and cultural delights. Back in Sydney we determined to use our weekly, travel an...
Alex Boyd, who is North Ayrshire’s Artist in Residence, gave an intriguing talk at the Ormidale Pavilion last Wednesday. He is a landscape photographer, but of an unusual kind, experimenting wit...