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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an audio transcript of the Political Fix podcast episode: ‘Cabinet fightback — the revolt over spending’ Lucy Fisher ...

The billionaire entrepreneur has gone all-in behind the Republican candidate. If he wins, the prize could be substantial ...

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Management is still aiming for “significantly more” than 3,000 shops, and supply chain investment means that 3,500 shops could soon be feasible. Greggs had 2,559 shops at the end of September and is ...

The gradual shift away from reliance on a single industry has helped the self-styled “energy capital of the world” take the ...

Disease-prone, plundered by wildlife, and the very opposite of sustainable, the spring blooms are a rollercoaster ride — ...

As Sketch (Bloomsbury), a new history of the landmark restaurant that opened in 2002, recounts, the 12 egg-shaped loos were inspired by sci-fi and constructed out of fibreglass by a Cowes yacht-maker ...