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Culture & Traditions

The Red Men (and women)

City blazes its way into summer

THE start of summer was heralded by more than 8000 people with a spectacular feast of colour and fire on Calton Hill last night.

Thistle Be the Cow

Moo-ved to new pastures

NO matter where you turned you couldn’t escape them. One was clad in a gangster’s pin-stripe suit trilby hat, one as the Terminator, while another was dressed at Tarzan.

Jane Stolton

Seeing out the winter in blaze of pagan glory

SOME 12,000 people are set to gather on Calton Hill tonight to witness the death of the Horned King in a spectacular Celtic Beltane Fire Festival.

MURCHADH MACLEOID

Ainm Gàidhlig, chan eil e ach nàdarrach

MURCHADH MACLEOID

BHA còir aige tachairt bho chionn bliadhnaichean. Thug sinn ùine cho fada le na h-ainmean tràill...

The Empire strikes back

'IT MUST have been like another planet," says Ian Johnston from Glasgow School of Art's Digital...

Dog

Move over Greyfriars Bobby, make way for war hero Bob

IT is a story familiar to millions worldwide - a loyal pet whose incredible devotion to his master...

Henry Austin Layard,

Sir Sean backs library's campaign to give public chance to view treasures

SIR Sean Connery has thrown his weight behind a public campaign by the National Library of...

Iroquois plea to save face - and heritage

THEY have rarely been on display in the 150 years since being parted from their owners and are...

Thurso

Board meeting

JOIN the world's best riders at the UK's biggest surf event ... in Thurso.

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