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Strange Brews
Kelpie Seaweed Ale Williams Brothers, Scotland. Thanks to Scotland’s miserable climate hops, generally a key beer ingredient, are not easily grown here. As a result Scottish beers have in the past tended to rely
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Survival Stories
By Dave Hynes There is something so immensely captivating about survival stories. It is difficult to actually ascribe what it is that exactly captivates us about them. Perhaps it’s the sheer capacity of human
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Scotland’s Top Comedy Clubs
By Sarah Moyes Red Raw @ The Stand Edinburgh/Glasgow Red Raw at The Stand is known for being one of the best new comedy nights across the country. A weekly night in Edinburgh (Monday)
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I thought You Were Dead? Species Science Forgot
By Matthew Murdoch Science tells us a lot of things. And normally science is right. That’s why we like it. We like that the earth moves round the sun. We like that gravity keeps
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The View From The Other Side
By Chris Hammond Carl Cattermole is an ex-offender, who on finishing his stint in an English prison, decided to help those preparing for life inside. The result of his work is the publication of
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The Crap Christmas
By Dave Hynes The Yuletide season is upon us, evidenced by high street mayhem, excessive glitter, neon lights and abject misery coursing through Scotland’s streets. Anything that can go wrong for Christmas usually does.
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Scotland’s Great Buildings
With the New Year well under way we thought it’d be good to take a look at Scotland from a fresh perspective. When discussing the county it’s easy to start talking up the countryside
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Travel: 24 Hours in Tallinn
By Alison Wilson Estonia is the northern-most of the Baltic countries, sharing borders with Latvia and Russia, and just across the water from Helsinki in Finland. You can get fairly cheap flights to Tallinn
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Q&A Ruta Gedmintas
By Eleanor Capaldi Following successful niche shows like ‘Being Human’ and ‘Him and Her’, BBC Three’s most recent offbeat offering was the well received ‘Lip Service’. This late night show focussed on the dramatic
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