Trainspotting 2 actor Bradley Welsh shot dead in Edinburgh
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Scott Hutchison of indie band Frightened Rabbit reported missing
Family, friends and police appeal for information about disappearance
Blindboy Boatclub book: A mixed plastic bag of mad ideas
This debut collection is big on creativity but, overall, short on satisfaction
Home is where the art is for Cavan couple
Will and Rebecca left London to run literary magazine from their refurbished farmhouse
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Creative Scotland pushing for revival of Scots language
First ‘scriever’ Hamish MacDonald says Scots ‘deserves and needs to be celebrated’
The Moth: from flight of fancy to successful arts magazine
From the unlikely setting of a farmhouse in Cavan comes ‘The Moth’, one of Ireland’s ‘coolest poetry magazines’ that has now gained an international following, and is the work of a husband and wife team
Crubeens, creativity and commemorations at Cúirt literary festival
New plaques celebrating Yeats, ‘The Kasbah’ and Ó Conaire to be unveiled in Galway city
Joseph O’Neill and Irvine Welsh for Cúirt festival
Sara Baume and Colm Tóibín will also take part in this year’s literary event in Galway
Beyoncé, David Bowie, U2 and D’Angelo all did it – so who’s next?
Will Frank Ocean and Kendrick Lamar follow in D’Angelo’s foosteps? Don’t bet the PR budget on it
Gordon Strachan rekindles Scottish fire and adds a bit of dash
Manager’s methods have revitalised players who were bereft of self-belief
Tweets from famous Scottish folk on referendum day
Andy Murray campaigns for yes, while J.K. Rowling is firmly in the No camp
10 of the best: Scottish fiction
As Scots go to the polls to vote on independence, we select our favourite Scottish novels
Literary Scotland on the independence vote
Salmond says Burns would vote Yes, but living writers are not all on the same page
Pollyanna McIntosh: Out of this world
Raised in Colombia and Portugal, amongst other places, Pollyanna McIntosh is a true child of the world – but she also resolutely Scottish and proud of it
Digging into the darkness of the young male psyche: Here Are the Young Men
Rob Doyle’s book is a rough but powerful debut, maybe the first novel since Kevin Power’s ‘Bad Day in Blackrock’ to interrogate the dark side of the young Irish male’s psyche
Choose your future. Choose life. Choose a different book to read: The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins
Judging by his new novel, it may be time for ‘Trainspotting’ author Irvine Welsh to pipe down
Imogen Poots -“You’re going to be judged whatever you do. So you might as well do things your way, right?”
Aged 24, Imogen Poots is already an industry veteran with credits alongside Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, Colin Farrell and Christopher Walken, to name just a few. Yet she manages to keep it refreshingly real at the top of the acting pile
Cypriot bailout shows troika to be hapless incompetents
Unaccountable elites will always do stupid things, writes Fintan O’Toole
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