Lev Atlas and Nigel Clark at Whiting Bay Hall on Monday 1st September, 7:30pm. Tickets £8. See above – and don’t miss this! Lev Atlas and Nigel Clark run Daytime Strings, a workshop ...
Birlinn pick this title for their newly-published anthology of writing from the First World War, edited by Trevor Royle. It’s a book that reaches out to grab you with casual truth from whatever ...
We have been having a fantastic time paragliding this summer on Arran. We were visited on the 28th July by three students we had trained whilst in Nepal; from Australia, New Zealand and Scotland. They...
The capital of Finland has always been a vibrant and interesting place, but within the next ten years, it plans to do away with car-ownership. Instead, it will have a travel nework that works by smart...
Friends of the Earth and other scientific bodies have been campaigning frantically to save our bees from wipe-out through the use of neonicotinides – and for the time being at least, they have w...
Having lived almost half of my Arran life in the South End I thought I had some idea of what farms look like. But that was before visiting Australia. In that extraordinarily vast country farms cover t...
Local singers will join with the talented students of the Royal Northern College of Music for a performance of the Fauré Requiem on Sunday 7th September, as part of the McLellan Festival. Any s...
Sally Campbell writes to correct the impression that plastics become nurdles when they break down. This term refers only to the industrial lentil sized pieces that are made into plastics for consumers...