Penny Lancaster is to make her first ever appearance at a Scottish book festival, telling the story of her life peopled by ...

One of the last remaining marionette puppet makers in the UK says the craft is vital to keep theatre alive. Stephen Foster, ...

Campaigners have criticised the number of jobs due to be supported by a planned gas-fired power station with carbon capture ...

With the Covid lockdowns having undermined the idea that school attendance is compulsory, nearly one in eight children are ...

The Middle East crisis should see pragmatism to prevail over the half-baked ideologies of many in the energy debate ...

Jessica Hardwick in the new season of Hijack plays a ghillie who may not be as friendly as she appears. Meanwhile she is ...

According to a recent estimate, there are between six and 20 people in the UK working full- or part-time making puppets, ...

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Residents of a development in Drylaw have urged the council to fix a broken bin store after they were landed with a bill for ...

The housing tenure has been slow to take root north of the Border but that is likely to change, says Dr John Boyle ...

Celtic life has come at Benjamin Arthur pretty fast since coming in from Brentford - but the 20-year-old loanee wouldn’t have it any other way. Especially when an Old Firm victory at Ibrox is thrown ...

There was a horrendous stench of disease and death in the refugee camps we visited. Some of the people we met were cadaverous and we were told by the medical staff that many of them had only hours to ...