1 week ago Strathaven Balloon Festival soars to new heights as 35,000 marvel at spectacle

The Evening Glow on the Saturday evening raised £1800 for Women's Aid in tribute to local woman Phoenix Spencer-Horn.

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1 week ago Vibrant Scottish town home to 14th century castle and Scotland's only balloon festival

The town’s biggest attraction each year is the Balloon Festival, which has been running since 1999.

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2 w. ago Strathaven Balloon Festival is set to attract 30,000 spectators

This will be the 25th anniversary of the free yearly event.

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2 w. ago Mary, Queen of Scots review – bold ballet brings the royal courts bang up to date

Festival theatre, EdinburghMary births a balloon and Elizabeth I towers on stilts in Sophie Laplane and James Bonas’s production about the queens’ distant relationshipThe second half of this show is much better than the first. It’s often the way in (loosely) narrative ballet. There’s all the scene-setting and character introductions before you can get to the guts of it – the relationships, the tension, the betrayal. Scottish Ballet’s new Mary, Queen of Scots, created by choreographer Sophie Laplane and director James Bonas, stumbles in the setup. Sometimes it’s just helpful to know where we are and who’s who. How would we know this scene where the men have porky prosthetic bellies protruding from their jackets is the French court, for example?The central conceit is that this is Mary’s story told through her cousin Elizabeth I’s eyes and the creators have set themselves a challenge there: in literature, one person can easily tell another’s story, but you can’t dance someone else’s da...

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3 w. ago Up, up and away! Skies above Bristol fill with dinosaurs, aliens and cows for annual balloon festival

Hundreds of dedicated early risers were up at dawn on Sunday morning to enjoy Bristol's annual balloon festival - as the skies were filled with dinosaurs, aliens and cows over the weekend.

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3 w. ago Hot air balloon crashes into primary school roof during festival

The balloon was blown off course and came into contact with the roof of a primary school.

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3 w. ago Moment balloon crashes into primary school roof during huge festival

The balloon was seen flying low before hitting the roof of a primary school near the scheduled landing site of a popular balloon festival

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4 w. ago Moment hot air balloon crashed into primary school roof during international festival

Witnesses described seeing the balloon's basket tip as it tried to get back into the air above the primary school in Bristol.

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