Beth Whitelaw

GLASGOW’S Aye Write book festival launches today with a star-studded weekend kicking off the programme, set to run across the next three weekends.

IF you were to somehow find you had travelled back in time to the 1960s, and, for some reason, were in attendance at a house party in Billy Kay’s home town of Galston, in Ayrshire, you’d likely find yourself greeted by a somewhat eclectic soundtrack.

THE online entry system for this year’s Royal National Mod is now open, An Comunn Gaidhealach has announced.

A RARE white-tailed sea eagle which was just an hour away from drowning is now thriving on the Isle of Rum – just months after being rescued.

EDDI Reader, Dougie MacLean, Blazin’ Fiddles and The Vale of Atholl Pipe Band are the latest acts to sign up to the Concert for Ukraine in Perth Concert Hall next Wednesday – April 20.

‘IT was dazzling, how something marvellous could be destroyed so quickly and so completely.”

A GLASGOW-BORN scientist has been posthumously honoured for her discovery of coronavirus.

WE live in a funny old age, don’t we? As the impending climate cataclysm looms, us humans continue to go about our day; driving excessively big cars to work, buying meal-deals wrapped in plastic that will outlive our great-great-great grandchildren, and saving up to afford a budget flight that will burn millions of years’ worth of energy from dead organisms in two-and-a-half hours.

FOR Kirsty Mackay, a project like this was always on the cards.