Stewartry BIG LIT Book Festival to take place online in 2020

link.Mark added: “This book will appeal to those who think it is vital to spark the imagination, and to think about sustainability and creating good costumes and things from boxes, eco paint — and imagination.”Tumshie - The Forgotten Halloween Turnip Lantern” is available now from Glasgow publisher Waverley Books for £7.99.

cancer patient had part of her leg removed and rushed to another hospital for radiation treatment and then sent back to doctors to be reattached in a rare surgical procedure.Jan Ritson's left tumorous shinbone was cut out at the Golden Jubilee Hospital and sent on a 20-minute journey to Glasgow’s Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre in a sterile container.After being treated, her shinbone was then returned to doctors at the Clydebank hospital where Jan was still on the operating table under a

Greenock. Emergency services were called to the scene on Lyle Road at around 3.25pm on Friday, October 20, after a bicycle collided with a pedestrian.

Scottish Cup hasn’t worked out quite as planned.But the Celtic manager admits he’s thrilled at still having the chance to secure another Treble for his club in a magnificent run of unbroken domestic silverware success.SFA chiefs and the four remaining participants had hoped delaying the semi-finals – which had to be postponed in April due to lockdown until this winter weekend – could see crowds back inside Hampden.Unfortunately, a second wave of the pandemic across the UK has meant the national

The Great British Bake Off.The popular Channel 4 programme has been providing Scots with a bit of light relief amid the coronavirus pandemic.And with the 11th series of the show coming to a conclusion, the wheels are already in motion to kickstart next year’s edition.Producers behind the show have put out a casting call for those who think they could earn a Star Baker award.Do you reckon you have what it takes to get that handshake from Paul Hollywood? And could your plans for a showstopper wow

Breakfast Time co-host Frank Bough as a sex-obsessed “nightmare”– just days after he died, aged 87.The pair launched the BBC’s first ­breakfast ­magazine show in 1983 but Scott claims their relationship was poor from the outset.Barely 10 days after his death, Scott said Bough was “not the friendly uncle figure that he liked to project to the public”.In 1988, the News of the World revealed that Bough had taken cocaine and worn ladies’ lingerie at a sex party involving prostitutes.Scott wrote:

David, 37, reckons he’ll win – because he has the same cool head he had to beat the others in the tent last year. David, from Whitby, said: “My money is on Peter, as although he’s young, he seems like he has a very mature baking head on his shoulders.

Donald Trump has a fond memory of the late Sean Connery. The president took to Twitter on Sunday to pay tribute to the actor, who died on Saturday at the age of 90.

Chinese eaterie in Dundee.His attack on “Andrew from Anstruther” begins: “Dear filthy animal” and he signs off: “Get a life before it gets you!”Mr Malik says he wasn’t on the premises at the time, but was furious that the diner made no allowance for the impact of coronavirus.In a response to the critic he wrote: “Honestly if I was there in person, I would slap you so hard right on your face that you would never every dare to trouble any hospitality business during such crisis!”He later said he

Belhaven Brewery Company Ltd discharged some 8,000 litres of undiluted caustic solution into a public sewer when an automatic cleaning process went wrong, a court heard. The discharge of concentrated sodium hydroxide in December last year breached health and safety guidelines.Dunbar based Belhaven stopped the discharges when they discovered what had happened and alerted Scottish Water.

coronavirus.Craig Meikle, who owns Edinburgh's Saltire Soft Play, hit out at a lack of government support and said the closures were 'devastating' for the sector.In an impassioned video released on the centre's Facebook page today he said his firm was 'going down the pan' and that the industry was facing 'utter disdain'.He made the claims on the day that Nicola Sturgeon announced a new five-tier lockdown system to come into force in an effort to battle coronavirus.Craig told the Record he had

Christmas for their kids amid the coronavirus crisis claim they've been targeted by scammers.

www.tamfest.co.uk. The main event will take place on Sunday, October 25.

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wedding venue told her guests her big day had been cancelled before she got the chance to do so. Jenna Campbell said she was furious when she found out staff at GG's Yard in Dumfries and Galloway had emailed several of her friends and family to say her wedding to partner James Paterson, which was due to take place on September 27, was no longer happening and had been rescheduled for February 2021.

terror at the top of Dundee ’s 33-metre big wheel as it spun backwards after a battery failure.