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Wednesday, 9th December 2009

Traditions

Many of the great European composers of his era wrote music for Burns's poems – Haydn's is released today THIS year is awash with major musical anniversaries. I've focused on two particular ones in recent weeks – Mendelssohn's well-stocked bicentenary celebrations and the looming 50th birthday of Scottish composer James MacMillan. But to that we

Having a Ba' in Jedburgh THE townsfolk of Jedburgh squared up to each other yesterday for the annual Jethard HandBa'.

Plug is pulled on pipe dreams of Ba' players IT COULD have been a whole new Ba' game, were it not for a team of engineers.

Destiny stone to stay put THE Stone of Destiny will not be moved back to Scone Palace in Perthshire despite the change to an SNP administration, it was confirmed yesterday.

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Checking up on a tartan tradition

In 1861 One o'Clock Gun failed to fire.. in 2007, guess what?

Club tees up plan for new Leith golf course

Blast from past as gun marks time again

City blazes its way into summer

Seeing out the winter in blaze of pagan glory

Turning up the heat for the biggest Beltane of them all

Has Harris Tweed put its jackets on a shoogly peg?

Beltane needs you as keeper of the flames

Postie's design raises the standard for Orkney

Rolling back the years

Fighting spirit resurrects old distillery

Opening up the road to the isles

Brothers put in a geed wyord to save an ancient Scottish dialect from extinction

Fringe venue to rise from the ashes at Gilded Balloon site

Dogs' tail-docking: the kindest cut?

Island fires up for Viking spectacular

Plenty more fish in the sea?

Women come to the Fore! at the R&A

Pie's the limit for champion butcher as business booms

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