Frankie Boyle faces questions over £900,000 tax dodge
Foul-mouthed Frankie Boyle, 39, could not resist lampooning fellow comedian Jimmy Carr after it emerged he used an off-shore scheme to pay as little as 1 per cent income tax. But close examination of...
View ArticleArts festival set for Rutherglen church
An arts festival is set to take place at Burnside Blairbeth Church at the end of the month. Minister William Wilson revealed the variety of events the church has planned for the last week of October,...
View ArticleCall for listing of 'stunning' stained glass threatened by vandals
A stained glass expert believes a Perth church should receive listed building status to protect windows created by one of Scotland’s most famous artists. Perth College lecturer Alan Lewis, who has just...
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Solas: organic Scottish festival encourages global heroes
In the year that the Greenbelt Festival turns 40, Scotland’s home-grown equivalent emerged last weekend as a flamboyant four-year-old determined to celebrate its cultural, and quite possibly political,...
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Tributes paid as fundraiser Claire Mulholland dies at 71
A former Evening Times Scotswoman of The Year who helped raise more than a million pounds for cancer research has died. Claire Mulholland was diagnosed with cancer of the kidney and secondary bone...
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Protestants are ‘more creative’ than Catholics and Jews because they don’t...
Protestants are more creative than Catholics and Jews, new research has found. Researchers from the University of Illinois wanted to test a previously-held theory that introverted people who suppress...
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Connected Arts Festival
There’s a new arts festival coming to East Central Scotland this summer. Connected will be running in Kirkliston Community Church near Edinburgh over two weekends from August 16th to Aug 24th. There...
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Passion play has Jesus as radical Scots politician
The greatest story ever told has been rewritten with a twist – with the last days of Jesus set on the eve of a referendum. The creators of the Edinburgh Passion, which will be performed in Princes...
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Theatre awarded £400,000 for plays and workshops on sectarianism
A Glasgow theatre is to be given £400,000 to host plays and workshops about sectarianism. The Citizens Theatre will use the £402,740 to hold performative [sic] events in primary schools across North...
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Ewan McGregor faces criticism for controversial role as Christ
Ewan McGregor has come under fire on Christian social media pages after it was revealed he will play both Jesus and the Devil in his new movie. ‘Last Days in the Desert’, due out next year, was branded...
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