3 h. ago Charity announced its intention to sell land for potential housing development in West Lothian

Sight Scotland Veterans said it plans to sell the land near to its Linburn Veterans Centre near Kirkliston.

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3 d. ago Spec your private jet at Gulfstream’s refurbished London Design Centre

Spec your private jet at Gulfstream’s refurbished London Design Centre  wallpaper.com

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5 d. ago Montrose veteran hails Sight Scotland Veterans’ Centre Without Walls event

Sight Scotland Veterans is set to host its first-ever ‘Centre Without Walls’ event in Montrose this June, offering local veterans with sight loss the chance to explore the wide-ranging support the charity has to offer.

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1 week ago Ripeness by Sarah Moss – a beautifully written novel of place and identity

An English woman’s tale of migration, alternating between mid-60s Italy and present-day Ireland, considers family heritage and the treatment of refugeesSarah Moss’s post-Brexit novels, Ghost Wall, Summerwater and The Fell, have dealt centrally with the anxieties and hostilities of the white working and middle classes in contemporary Britain. This trio of short, vivid works has also quietly established Moss as a revered chronicler of the political present. Though Ripeness bears many of the hallmarks of her recent fiction – evocative descriptions of the natural world abound, no speech marks used, chapter titles plucked suggestively out of the narrative – it also departs from it. It is longer, slower, European in setting, and its political critiques are ultimately muted.Ripeness is structured in alternating narrative strands, both following an English woman called Edith: one as a septuagenarian living comfortably in the west of Ireland in the post-pandemic present, and anothe...

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2 w. ago Giant Humpty Dumpty sculpture appears on wall in central London after 'great fall'

A giant Humpty Dumpty egg sculpture has appeared on a wall in central London after his 'great fall' - but it seems all the king's horses and all the king's men have managed to patch him up

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3 w. ago Veteran broadcast journalist appointed head of news at BBC Scotland

Howard Simpson has almost two decades of experience.

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