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The Aberdeen City Council's RSS feed of news releases is possibly the first government syndicated news in the UK. It's inclusion in Google News indexing may also be a first.

Scotland are the great entertainers when they really need to be the great executioners, writes Tom English.

The firefighters, police officers and a nurse are being honoured with a new award for those who died in the line of duty.

Harris McCutcheon, 17, is representing Scotland on a new Butterfly Conservation panel.

Workington Hall is famous for having provided shelter to Mary Queen of Scots.

No Comment : des couronnes de coquelicots pour le Dimanche du Souvenir 

Fancy a late summer weekend away? Holly Heywood has found the perfect place.

New owner and team for the Five Alls at Filkins.

Scotland beat Italy and Canada but fall short of reaching the World Women's Curling Championship play-offs.

Scotland call up Stuart Armstrong for the games against Croatia and Poland as Che Adams and Lewis Morgan withdraw from the squad.

International numbers are on the up but not everything in tourism is rosy

Tirril, Penrith : Humanities-Ebooks, 2008.

London : Methuen Drama, 2022.

Glasgow : Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., publishers 52-58 Darnley Street, [ca. 1960?]

Jamie Laing has appeared to flout lockdown rules after he returned to London with his girlfriend Sophie Habboo. The Made in Chelsea couple had left the capital to isolate in the Cotswolds.

THE warning is becoming louder. It was raised by the Leave team during Thursday's TV debate and, on the same day, by the Chancellor, George Osborne, and two former prime minsters, Sir John Major and Tony Blair. Brexit, they said, posed a serious threat to the Union.

WHEN competitive football finally gets underway again, the Glasgow City and Arsenal players who are in the Scotland squad are likely to face a glut of fixtures at home and abroad.

Did you know in golf 'Dormy' or 'Dormie' refers to a player being in the lead by as many holes as are still to be played i.e. 2 shots up with two holes to play?

These stone fruits look and taste similar, but they're not always interchangeable in recipes.

For Scots who are struggling with debts, a debt arrangement scheme (DAS) could be the solution they are looking for.

Disclosed are compositions and methods of making non-glycosylated transferrin protein in transgenic monocot plants.

Five facts about...Bessie Johnston

Follow along here for all the coronavirus developments in Glasgow, Scotland and further afield.

While hygiene and handwashing are on people's minds at present, there's hope that water conservation is right up there with it as parts of Australia come out of drought.

Animal rights activists have repeatedly called for college sports teams to stop using real animals as their mascots. Are these complaints fair or an overreaction?

COSTA RICA is a name to send a chill down any Scotsman’s spine. For me it’s up there with Peru when I think of football nightmares on a world stage.

The Scottish government has asked for the public's thoughts on easing restrictions - but are the ideas any good?

COMPLAINTS about holidays have overtaken job concerns as the number one issue for hundreds of Scots contacting two independent national advice services every day during the coronavirus crisis.

SCOTS have been urged to give up smoking and cut down their alcohol consumption in a bid to reduce “complications linked to conroavirus”.

It was 25 years ago this month that the sporting world witnessed a miracle when the former pariah state of South Africa hosted what many people still consider to be the best ever Rugby World Cup finals.

Scotland needs to plant up to one billion trees to achieve the country’s ambitious climate change goals and help the economy recover from the coronavirus crisis, a group of environmental consultants have said.

A family who was fined for travelling more than 400 miles for the bank holiday weekend have been slammed online by politicians and Scots.

Microchip Announces Industry’s First Space-Qualified COTS-Based Radiation-Tolerant Ethernet Transceiver and Embedded Microcontroller

ARMED forces veterans are facing a threat from an enemy they cannot see.

They were better in 1904 than they are today.

Mary Queen Of Scots

U/A: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Josie Rourke
Cast: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Woll, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine
Rating: 

Director Josie Rourke and writer Beau Willimon's attempt to give two warring Queens, the widowed Mary Queen Of Scots (Saoirse Ronan) and Queen Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie) of England, a larger voice in their historic confrontation, makes for fairly compelling viewing. This is a tapestry of discontent woven with a rare female gaze and allows for greater involvement in the royal proceedings.

Mary, following untimely widowhood, returns to her native Scotland to assume her throne. Her half-brother James Moray (James McArdle) is not enthused and his peace-keeping allegiance to the Protestant regime in England may have well become meaningless. Mary's cousin, Elizabeth I, monarch of England is also wary of Mary's far more valid claim to her own throne. So the intrigue and betrayals begin. And it's the men on both sides who play out the deceit in bloody fashion.

Check out the trailer here:

This is largely a biopic on Mary, Queen of Scots beginning with her return to the throne, subsequent precipitous marriages, the power struggle with her brother and several other aspirants to the throne and eventually her tragic death on the orders of her cousin. So there's more than enough drama to be had. Unfortunately, clarity is not a strong point here. Framed largely as per the version put forward by John Guy's biography of the Queen, the film has some controversial moments but fails to concretize the reasoning for her eventual beheading.

We get to meet Mary's ladies-in-waiting, her attempts to solidify her claims to the throne of England, her fight with the clergy who are largely protestant, her brother James' attempts to undercut her authority, John Knox's(David Tenant) outrage at having to know-tow to a female ruler and Elizabeth's helplessness and insecurity in having to deal with a more beautiful, younger claimant to her monarchy. Most of the narrative gives vent to Mary's life story but towards the end the focus shifts to Elizabeth's, thus creating a dichotomy that is a little difficult to empathize with. This filmed drama is largely faithful to the established record, has authentic fashionably period costuming and make-up and intensely committed performances from the two leads as well as their co-actors in crucial roles. So it's a vividly engaging experience even if not an entirely lucid one!

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The long-standing rivalry between England and Scotland means many Scots support whichever team is playing against their south of the border neighbours.