3 h. ago John Swinney to lead Tartan Day parade in New York amid charm offensive

The First Minister is in America on a charm offensive and will spend the day touting Scotland's cultural heritage in the US and join the parade's grand marshal, actor Alan Cumming

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13 h. ago John Swinney's charm offensive plans as SNP leader to march in New York's Tartan Day parade

John Swinney will march alongside Alan Cumming in New York’s annual Tartan Day parade

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21 h. ago Tartan Day Parade 2025: Who invented Tartan Day and why is there a parade to mark it in New York?

The Big Apple will be turning tartan this weekend.

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32 h. ago John Swinney accused of taking Tartan Day 'jolly' while Donald Trump 'trade crisis' rages

The First Minister said he had no plans to meet with members of the Trump Administration during his weekend in the US.

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46 h. ago John Swinney has 'no plans' to meet with Trump Administration officials when in New York

The First Minister is jetting off to New York as part of the city's annual Tartan Day celebrations.

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49 h. ago Tartan Day Parade Grand Marshals: Here are all 21 famous faces to have led the New York celebrations

The parade is the highlight of a week of special events to celebrate all things Scottish in the Big Apple.

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65 h. ago Pride Cymru 2025: Parade date, ticket prices, headliner and more

The event attracts thousands every year and will take place across two days later this year with a host of exciting announcements

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7 d. ago Grealish, Wilshere and Van Gaal’s ‘kiss’: Newcastle’s parade has a lot to live up to

Eddie Howe’s men will celebrate their Carabao Cup win on Saturday but there can be pitfalls along the wayWhen the celebration of Newcastle’s first trophy in decades became a point of heated civic discussion, it served as a reminder that party planning can be problematic.“Extensive work and long-term planning behind the scenes have continued with Newcastle City council, Northumbria police, Freemen of Newcastle, the North East Combined Authority, NE1, Nexus and the emergency services,” groaned a club statement this week, ending fevered speculation that Saturday’s ticketed, controlled event on the Town Moor would be the only place to see Eddie Howe, Dan Burn et al show off the Carabao Cup and/or thank Yasir al-Rumayyan for the Saudi Arabian riches that funded success. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The ‘paradise’ European country named best to visit in 2025 with direct flights from Manchester Airport

This destination offers holidaymakers 'pristine coastlines' and 'over 1,000 dreamlike islands'

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2 w. ago ‘I’ve had seals nibble my toes!’ How sunkissed Cornwall became a 422

Surfing? It’s as Cornish as piracy and pasties. As a thrilling exhibition opens in ‘Britain’s California’, we enter a heady world of coffinboards, hotdogging Aussies – and bans dished out to gangs fighting on the beach‘I had no friends,” says Charlotte Banfield, “and no interests. I was very depressed. It was all going to end very badly indeed for me.” Banfield – who has cerebral palsy, epilepsy and autism, and was being bullied at school – thought of taking her life. But then, aged 13, she was enrolled by her mum in a six-week surfing course run by the Wave Project, which helps to improve children’s confidence and ease their anxiety through riding breakers. It was a pivotal moment, not least because Banfield was about to be excluded from school.Her first surf class was a disaster, though. “I had a phobia of water. I couldn’t stand it on my skin. I ran away and locked myself in the car.” But something – perhaps the sense that there was “no pressure” – brought her back. “When I went ...

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2 w. ago Blair Castle's Atholl Highlanders to take part in New York Tartan Day Parade 2025

About to embark on an eleven day tour of the United States, Britain's only private Regiment, The Atholl Highlanders, raised and commanded by the Dukes of Atholl, and based at their ancestral home of Blair Castle in Highland Perthshire, have announced that they are honoured to be taking part in New York’s Tartan Day Parade on April 5.

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2 w. ago St Patrick's Day 2025: Watch live as the parade heads through the streets of Dublin

The annual St Patrick’s Day parade is set to begin

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2 w. ago Actor Julianne Nicholson: ‘I would have loved to have been a nepo baby but alas’

The star on her new TV series Dope Girls, the benefits of intimacy coordinators and the joys of moving to the English countrysideJulianne Nicholson, 53, was born near Boston, Massachusetts, and worked as a model before training as an actor in New York. Her screen credits include August: Osage County, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Ally McBeal, I, Tonya and Boardwalk Empire. In 2021, she won an Emmy for her role as Lori in Mare Of Easttown. She recently played Samantha “Sinatra” Redmond in Disney+ political thriller Paradise and is now starring as nightclub owner Kate Galloway in BBC One’s period drama Dope Girls. Nicholson recently moved to the UK with her husband, British actor Jonathan Cake, and their two children.Your Dope Girls character is loosely based on real-life roaring 20s nightclub owner Kate “Ma” Meyrick. What drew you to the role?The story is such a fascinating look at that period. Normally when we see the post-first world war years on screen, the men are returning h...

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2 w. ago London St Patrick's Day parade map of 2025 route and full list of festival events

London St Patrick's Day parade map of 2025 route and full list of festival events  My London

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3 w. ago St Patrick's Day 2025: Parade and festival to be held to London

St Patrick's Day 2025: Parade and festival to be held to London  BBC.com

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3 w. ago Alan Cumming to lead New York's legendary Tartan Week Parade 2025 as Grand Marshall

Cumming, 60, has previously joined the likes of Sir Sean Connery, Brian Cox, Sir Billy Connolly, KT Tunstall and Dougray Scott in the role.

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