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The V&A Dundee, designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, is the centrepiece of an ongoing regeneration of the city's waterfront.

'A great deal of emptiness' - Dundee's striking V&A leaves me feeling a bit sad

Fisherman Donald Francis (DF) MacNeil has been honoured at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards for the protest song The Clearances Again. Picture: Stephen Kearney

Na Trads: Fisherman honoured for protest song at Scottish music awards gala

Exclusive Entry fees on the cards for museums and galleries in Edinburgh

The 21 best Scottish movies voted by Scotsman readers

Sir Michael Palin's Big Three Adventures, available as BBC DVD box-sets, benefit from regular viewing. Picture: Scott Reid

Humour, insight and passion: Michael Palin takes top honours in TV travel world

Joaquin Phoenix stars as Napoleon in the new Ridley Scott film (Picture: Sony Pictures)

How Scots played a key role in the downfall of Napoleon Bonaparte

The agreement marks the return of a dedicated shipbuilder in Stornoway for the first time in 100 years.

Shipbuilding returns to Stornoway for first time in 100 years

Jason Barrett has been appointed chief executive of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Picture: Ian Georgeson

The ex-US marine aiming to take the Edinburgh Tattoo into a new era

This little box may be billed as an upscaling DVD player but it just might also be the biggest CD playing bargain available.

CD hit: Why my £18 supermarket player is the greatest hi-fi bargain in 40 years

The jetty at Hushinish in Harris with boats bound for Scarp in the background. PIC: Dr Mary Gilham Archive Project/Creative Commons

The island that everyone left and the abandoned house now sold as a second home

A SRPS first class compartment which seeks to convey the golden age of rail travel. (Photo by SRPS)

Rail operator forced to halt most historic tours for £500,000 safety upgrade

Rishi Sunak meets Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the G20 Summit last year (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Rishi Sunak goes all Alan Partridge over 'Elgin Marbles'

Here are 10 terrifying Christmas creatures from around the world

Eilean Musdile lighthouse on the isle of Lismore in the Inner Hebrides. The only shop and post office on the island - which has a population of around 160 - has been saved after the community bought out the store. PIC: Eugene Birchall /geograph.org.

How the only shop on a Scottish island was saved with help of second home owners

A mosaic in a church in Chile portaying Saint Andrew.

St Andrew’s Day: Who is Saint Andrew and why Scotland celebrates him?

Reed Hudson, Historic Environment Scotland metal conservator, inspecting the Crown of Scotland. Picture: HES

Honours of Scotland return to display at Edinburgh Castle

Here are 80 of the Billy Connolly's best jokes to give you a laugh

The years running up to the 1745 Jacobite rebellion were dangerous times for many (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Kidnapped: A true story of intrigue, abduction and Jacobites in 18thC Scotland

Alistair Wilson, a double Olympian sprint canoeist, adventurer, inventor and engineer, photographed earlier this year at home in Lendalfoot. PIC: John Devlin.

Scottish double Olympic canoeist, adventurer and paddle designer dies aged 84

It is hoped Edinburgh's Filmhouse cinema will be able to reopen by the summer.

Edinburgh Filmhouse: Council agrees crucial funding to help cinema reopen

A kimono owned by Freddie Mercury will be going on display in a Japanese fashion exhibition at V&A Dundee next year. Picture: Victoria and Albert Museum

Freddie Mercury kimono worn at home to go on show in V&A Dundee exhibition

This 1953 collage will be will be among the Eduardo Paolozzi works going on display at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art next year. Picture: Paolozzi Foundation

100 years of ‘Pop Art’ pioneer Eduardo Paolozzi to be celebrated in Edinburgh

Exclusive Game On: 60 years of videogaming to be celebrated in Edinburgh

'Groundbreaking ‘Gaelictronica’ group Niteworks are to disband after 16 years. Picture: Ryan Buchanan Photography

Groundbreaking ‘Gaelictronica’ group Niteworks to disband after 16 years

The EMI TG12345 Mk I recording console used by The Beatles at Abbey Road Studios is up for auction. Picture: Courtesy Bonhams/SWNS

Beatles Abbey Road recording console up for auction for more than £1m

Robert Bruce killed Henry de Bohun at the Battle of Bannockburn after the English knight launched what was considered to be an unchivalrous attack (Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Bannockburn is a timeless reminder to never give up hope, no matter the odds

The Station Hotel building in Ayr was severely damaged by a fire in September (Picture: John Devlin)

Every effort must be made to save Ayr's Station Hotel from wrecking ball

Images released by South Ayrshire Council show the damage caused to the hotel following the blaze.

Hotelier 'interested' in acquiring fire ravaged Station Hotel in Ayr

The best and most beautiful castles to visit in Scotland (Getty Images via Canva Pro)

The 14 most magnificent castles to visit in Scotland

Protestors from This is Rigged say they have smashed the glass case in Edinburgh Castle's Crown Room. Picture: Historic Environment Scotland

Three people arrested as protest targets Stone of Destiny at Edinburgh Castle

Islanders get ready to board SS Marloch 100 years ago to emigrate as part of a controversial scheme to create a new Catholic settlement in Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The long 'silence' around a Scottish island emigration as it marks 100 years

Actress Tilda Swinton will play the artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham in the new film A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things. Picture: Frazer Harrison

Tilda Swinton to portray celebrated Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

The British war graves in Doirani, Greece. Picture: Alastair Stewart

Why there is a Scots-style war memorial on a Greek hillside

Exclusive Descendant of Scots dynasty opposes plans to rebury ancestors’ bodies

Real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield has published a new report imagining what Edinburgh could look like in 2040.

Radical Princes Street revamp predicted under ‘imagined’ 2040 Edinburgh vision

The images, held by Fife cultural charity, OnFife, have long been a mystery. Picture: OnFife

Mystery of striking photographs solved after nearly a century

The identity card of John Cumming Sclater, of Kirkwall, who survived the Rohna attack. PIC: Contributed.

A search for truth over a hushed-up World War Two sea attack that killed 1,000

Exclusive ‘Existential crisis’ as up to 700 churches predicted to close by 2030

British Expeditionary Force soldiers en-route to Mons in Belgium on August 17, 1914. Picture: PA

Lord Mulholland remembers those from judiciary who fought in World War One

Members of the Scottish Women's Land Army at Eaglescairnie Farm, East Lothian, during World War Two. Thousands of records now released illuminate the efforts of the 'land girls' in keeping the nation warm and fed during the conflict. PIC: East Lothian Museums.

Scotland's 'Land Girls' : Hard work, skill and fighting sexism

Here are the 25 best Scottish bands, singers and artists ever

Ms Bennet was a parishioner at the Parish Church of St Cuthbert on Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, and is the only woman commemorated on the wall of the church’s memorial chapel

The tragic Scots nurse who died in PoW camp weeks before armistice

The old Calton Jail - described as one of the worst in Scotland given the harshness of conditions within its walls - was demolished in 1930 with prisoners instead being housed in Saughton. PIC: CC.

The 10 murderers buried under a government car park in Edinburgh

Aerial view of Loch Ailort in the West Highlands. Picture: Markus Keller/Shutterstock

Stella McCartney faces opposition to secluded Highland home plan

Lenabo Forest, near Peterhead, is on the market for offers over £3.9m (pic: Goldcrest Land & Forestry Group)

Forest with former WW1 airship station on the market for offers over £3.9m

36 of the best Chic Murray jokes

Island music festival reveals £3.6m spin-off for economy after record audience

Music writer Sue Wilson passed away in September. Picture: Sean Purser

New award created in memory of Scotsman trad music critic Sue Wilson

Professor Tom Gillingwater, chair of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh, in the institution's Skull Room. Picture: Neil Hanna

Skulls of Taiwanese warriors taken as trophies are returned by university

19 Beautiful Scottish Lighthouses built by the iconic Robert Stevenson

Pedestrians pass a mural depicting members of British rock band The Beatles (left-right) Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison on the side of a building in Liverpool. Picture: Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images

Beatles’ Now And Then branded ‘qualified success’ after its release

Wild flowers in Kings Park, below Stirling Castle. The Roman road was found in a garden near Stirling

Ancient Roman road used by William the Conqueror discovered in cottage garden

Photographer Lieve Peten appears in the new documentary Loch Ness: They Created a Monster.

New movie turns the lens onto the Loch Ness Monster hunters

Volunteers cleared the whole area of bracken, weeds and small trees and then overturned all the stones to reveal the landmark once again. PIC: Douglas Simpson/ Mormond Hill Stag Group

White Stag built on hillside 150 years ago emerges once again

The 'Bouchardon Bust' was discovered by Councillor Maxine Smith in 1998 propping open a door of a council shed in Balintore, Easter Ross, in the late 1990s. A mystery buyer has now offered £2.5m for the piece.

Highland town to decide future of £2.5m sculpture once used as a doorstop

Dr Godfrey Evans, of National Museums Scotland, with the Panmure ewer and basin from the Earl of Dalhousie. PIC: Stewart Attwood/National Museums Scotland/PA Wire.

Rare 16th-century pieces from aristocratic family’s silver passed to nation

People were gathering at a crannog on Loch na Claise in Assynt around 2,500 years earlier than previously thought. PIC: Chris Wimbush/geograph.org

'Surprise' find on Highland loch rewrites timeline of ancient water dwellers

US academic, Dr Joseph Henrich of Harvard University, wins $100,000 Adam Smith prize for “thrilling and brilliant” work on the “collective brain”

Ad Feature $100,000 Adam Smith prize awarded to ‘brilliant’ Harvard academic

Edinburgh guisers warm their hands over their turnip lantern in 1956. Picture: TSPL

Halloween traditions of the past - from apple dooking to turnip lanterns

Meggernie Castle in Glen Lyon, Perthshire. PIC: CC.

The Scottish castle haunted by two halves of a murdered wife

Herbal fruit liqueurs are a popular modern-day herbal remedy.

Whisky’s links to witches and modern herbology

Glamis Castle is the location where Thomas Lyon-Bowes was reportedly locked away

The 200-year-old mystery of the 'Monster of Glamis' Castle

Only seven miles away from Stirling is the magnificent Dunmore Pineapple which amazes visitors with its unique architecture and curious heritage.

Explainer Dunmore Pineapple Guide: The “Most Bizarre Building In Scotland”

The 'intriguing and unsettling' Scottish island tradition of skekling

Haunted areas of Scotland are a plenty. Cr. Getty Images

Here are the most hidden haunted locations in Scotland

Scotland is famous for its colourful vocabulary and that includes our descriptions of the human body via the Scots language.

21 Scottish words for body parts, how many did you know? Scots Human Anatomy

circa 1890: Scottish novelist, poet and traveller Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850-1894). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

How Treasure Island was born out of a wet summer holiday in Braemar

Augmented reality archaeology at Cladh Hallan. Credit - Uist Virtual Archaeology Project

Ad Feature It’s time to unlock your Hebridean escape. It’s time for Uist

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

Nadine Dorries. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

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