The US is willing to provide up to $20bn as part of a G7 loan to Ukraine that will be repaid with profits generated by Russia’s frozen assets, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Anyone of a certain age and history looking at a photograph of the mountaineer’s sock will instantly recognise Cash’s woven sew-on name tape. Generations of mothers, clearly including Irvine’s, ...

Created by Ayrshire sculptor John McKenna, and commissioned by the John JR Macleod Memorial Statue Society, the statue is neither pompous nor nostalgic but sits instead on a park bench in a relaxed ...

In December last year the practice of opera singing in Italy was inscribed on Unesco’s list of “intangible cultural heritage of humanity”. The directors of the five Lombard theatres are doing their ...

Buildings of this ambition and scale will never be attempted again, with tin sheds now being the extent of our architectural ambition. The juxtaposition of the depressing dullard of a train station ...

Maybe I would escort them to the lifts: or greet them as they walked into the department making sure that the girls all looked busy, and were summoned to serve in correct order of seniority. The days ...

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