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...A modern riff on the famous sleuths created by Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Edgar Allan Poe, in the US the book’s title is Holmes, Marple and Poe. Are rights issues to blame?...
...The pipes and Christopher Nicolson’s bass pull it all together: a four-minute Scots cyber-noir soundtrack....
...Robert Allan Fochabers, Morayshire, UK...
...Letters in response to this article: Blame bossy London for Scots’ independence drive / From Robert Allan, Fochabers, Morayshire, UK Scots look east and north, to the EU, not to England / From Mark McKergow...
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...Allan Monks: The Bank of England would feel comfortable cutting to -0.5 per cent if it needed to....
...Innes Strachan’s keyboards are as much to the fore as Allan MacDonald’s piping — a tension gloriously released when the edgy, repetitive synth riff of “Iain McGee’s” suddenly brightens as the pipes rush...
...We know exactly how bonnie Charles was, thanks to an exquisite portrait of him by Allan Ramsay, the pre-eminent Scottish artist of the 18th century....
...The place is rammed: eagle scouts off to camp; a husband and wife, who look uncannily like Grant Wood’s American Gothic couple; a quartet of kids fighting over a Rubik’s Cube while dad reads Edgar Allan...
...Second, fewer Scots take up the option of private schooling or medicine....
...Grant Allan of the University of Strathclyde said: “If the intention was to obtain a large number, then the analysis will no doubt hit the mark....
...But independence supporter Doreen Philp, 62, says fellow Scots should put not much store by the worries of business leaders....
...The same was true of their friend, Allan Ramsay, son of a Scottish poet, then painter in ordinary to King George III and prolific portraitist....
...Though some Scots had argued for union with England for generations, patriotic resistance was overcome only by bullying, blackmail and outright bribery....
...The short term would inevitably see considerable uncertainty — about the reaction of the Scots, the terms of an exit and the consequences particularly for financial services trade....
...Alsop has commissioned a symphony from the Scots composer for the festival’s 50th anniversary....
...The newly elected chief minister, Allan Bell, was on my table and so was Tim Craine, director of the Isle of Man Business Development Agency....
...As a former partner at magic circle firm Allen & Overy who used to defend accountants, the Scot knows many of the tricks of the trade....
...Allan Massie seems never to have consulted a single manuscript source, and most of his material is derivative....
...Not so Allan Richardson. The 54-year-old Scot arrived in Ramallah, in the troubled Palestinian region, in early 2007 after two long stints in war-ravaged Iraq and Afghanistan....
...In the past 15 years the orchestra has become an instrument of the Scots conductor’s will, but never before has the impulse seemed as organic as here....
...Although by no means solely reliant on him (among others he also listened to the painter Allan Ramsay, whose penetrating portrait of Hunter is one of the show’s highlights), his fellow Scot was to exert...
...The Scots may be keen to handle their own affairs these days but when it comes to selling their art they are increasingly looking south....
...It was a tale that recalled for me the old-country-visit narratives of my relatives who, like many Scots, sought and found a more materially rewarding life in Canada....
...THE THISTLE AND THE ROSE: Six Centuries of Love and Hate between Scots and English by Allan Massie John Murray £20, 326 pages Worrying about Britishness has largely been a habit of the Irish, Scots and...
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