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  • Vino toasts fourth shop and plans online sale Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 6:09PMWINE retailer Vino is targeting online expansion after opening its fourth bottle shop in Edinburgh, just over a year since the business was launched.
  • Historic hotel to undergo £60k facelift Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 9:32AMAN historic hotel is having a facelift.
  • What's on: week starting Friday, May 6 Thursday, May 5, 2011 @ 4:46AMFriday, May 6 * THREE, exhibition featuring work by installation artist Vicki Kerr from New Zealand, moving image artist, poet and musician Heather Phillipson, and photographer Michelle Sank, at ABERYSTWYTH Arts Centre gallery to May 21.
  • Extra cash for Dounreay decommissioning plans Monday, April 4, 2011 @ 6:15PMEXTRA money is being given this year for the ongoing work to close down the redundant Dounreay nuclear plant.
  • Cambridge: readers' tips, recommendations and travel advice Monday, April 4, 2011 @ 6:35AMReaders' advice on trips to Cambridge. Send us your tips for the chance to win a stay in London.
  • What's on: week starting Friday, March 25 Friday, March 25, 2011 @ 5:17AMFriday March 26 * ”LEONARDO’S LAST SUPPER”, plus “Noonday Demons”, darkly comic double bill by Olivier award-winning playwright and screenwriter Peter Barnes, at ABERYSTWYTH Arts Centre tonight, and Saturday, April 2.
  • 11m Brit adults 'have seen ghost' Friday, March 4, 2011 @ 3:28AMLondon, Mar 4 : A quarter of British adults — more than 11million people — claim to have had an experience with a ghost, according to a new survey.
  • Quarter of Brits have seen ghost Thursday, March 3, 2011 @ 3:44AMRECORD 25 per cent of adult Brits say they have had a ghostly encounter, study finds
  • The ghost map: Yorkshire tops spook league with a third of adults claiming to have seen a spectre Thursday, March 3, 2011 @ 3:35AMResearch by leading psychologist and paranormal investigator Professor Richard Wiseman reveals that a quarter of British adults - more than 11 million people - claim to have experienced a ghost.
  • What's on: week starting Friday, January 28 Thursday, January 27, 2011 @ 4:54AMFriday, January 28 * NATIONAL DANCE COMPANY WALES, opening their spring tour with double bill of ravishing and enthralling new commissions, “By Singing Light” by hip New York choreographer Stephen Petronic and “Quixoteland” by Netherlands Dance Theatre choreographer Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, at ABERYSTWYTH Arts Centre, tonight and on Saturday, January 29.
  • Tales trapped in glass cabinets Wednesday, January 19, 2011 @ 8:46AMBreak in at the Bank of England
  • Seven new, wholesome ways to have fun in the dark Tuesday, January 18, 2011 @ 10:46AMWhile every day is getting a little bit lighter since the winter solstice Dec. 22, it will be months before we have full days of sunshine. Rather than hibernate like a grizzly, embrace the darkness with these experiences:
  • Graham's £100m deal to build Dounreay nuclear waste vaults Thursday, January 13, 2011 @ 6:01PMA NORTHERN Irish firm has landed a £100 million contract to design and build a giant nuclear waste facility at Dounreay in Caithness.
  • Interpol seeks NZer in Spanish probe Wednesday, January 5, 2011 @ 11:01PMInterpol is hunting a former Auckland man and his British wife suspected of masterminding a European property scam alleged to involve almost $2 million. The Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh reported that 20 people claimed to have...
  • Interpol hunts New Zealander in Spanish probe Wednesday, January 5, 2011 @ 9:18PMInterpol is hunting a former Auckland man and his British wife suspected of masterminding a European property scam.
  • Interpol seeks New Zealander in Spanish probe Wednesday, January 5, 2011 @ 8:07PMInterpol is hunting a former Auckland man and his British wife suspected of masterminding a European property scam alleged to involve almost $NZ2 million.
  • London’s Top 10 Tunnels and Catacombs Wednesday, January 5, 2011 @ 9:01AM10. Greenwich foot tunnel Connecting Greenwich to Island Gardens on the Isle of Dogs, this slightly forlorn passage beneath the Thames was constructed at the start of the 20th Century. According to a TV show what we saw the other day, and now can’t remember the name of (anyone?), it was almost flooded during the Second World War following a direct hit. The emergency repairs can still be seen ...
  • Beauty and the Liturgical Rite Monday, December 13, 2010 @ 3:29PM"Beauty is the last thing which the thinking intellect dares to approach, since only it dances as an uncontained splendor around the double constellation of the true and the good and their inseparable relation to one another.
  • The latest Royal wedding in a line of colourful nuptials Tuesday, November 16, 2010 @ 10:13AMThe wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton will join a historic list of colourful royal marriages, some more successful than others, writes historian Dr David Starkey.
  • FRIGHT nights! Friday, October 29, 2010 @ 1:57AMEXCLUSIVE: Do you believe in ghosts? As Halloween looms, we meet four readers who are convinced that spirits roam the country. Here, they reveal their own encounters with the paranormal..
  • Walking Tours Bring Europe's Cities to Life Thursday, October 28, 2010 @ 8:00PMIt was my last day in Lisbon, and I was on a roll, until my work got hijacked by a walking tour. I had intended to tag along for half an hour, then duck out. But the tour was so good, I stayed the entire three-plus...
  • Spooktacular Europe: Europe abounds with places to get a chill for the season Tuesday, October 26, 2010 @ 4:38PMHalloween in Europe can be quite different from the States. There may not be as many fake cobwebs adorning store shelves or front yards decorated with witches and goblins, but the ancient architecture and eerie environment of European cities and countryside offer a naturally spooky setting perfect for some Halloween fun.
  • Halloween pranks anyone? Check out the spooky Edinburgh tunnels Monday, October 18, 2010 @ 10:29PMEdinburgh - It had been quite a long while since the last time that a young woman I didn't know was holding tightly to me, seeking help. But it happened just recently.
  • Are you afraid of the dark? Thursday, October 14, 2010 @ 12:14PMGhosts are not real.
  • 8°C - Sunny intervals with variable cloud cover Thursday, October 14, 2010 @ 3:39AMHE'S survived the spookiest castles, dozens of haunted homes and even a cursed close in the dead of night.
  • John Marciari is making history Saturday, August 7, 2010 @ 6:08PMTo the Spanish media, it seemed incomprehensible. John Marciari had just accomplished one of the biggest art coups in years: discovering a previously unknown work by the 17th-century Spanish master Diego Velázquez. How could he ever go back to work again? Not only is he back at work in San Diego, he's finding more surprises.
  • Goddard: Before Vermeer was Vermeer Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 11:14PMExhibit in The Hague shows early works of artist best known for Girl with a Pearl Earring.
  • This week's new albums, July 20: Sheryl Crow, Marc Cohn, Wire, more Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 7:24AMSheryl Crow [ tickets ] "100 Miles From Memphis" (A&M) In a note on her website , Sheryl Crow says she feels artistically revitalized after rediscovering the soul music of the 1960s and '70s that she grew up on, specifically the music released by the Atlantic and Stax labels. For her seventh album, Crow and producers Doyle Bramhall and Justin Stanley penned tunes steeped in vintage R&B and dug ...
  • Thrill to 'Too Long,' stomp with Moonpie Fever Friday, June 25, 2010 @ 1:16AMIf you think that traditional folk music is a namby-pamby realm of unicorns, rainbows and swooning damsels, you've never trolled the pages of Francis J. Child's seminal work "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads."
  • Take a trip to Sandcastle St Thursday, May 13, 2010 @ 5:17AMIT IS going to take 15 tonnes of sand, three gallons of water and five days of hard work, but some of the Capital's best known landmarks are to be recreated – in a giant s
  • Newton's apple tree to escape gravity Sunday, May 9, 2010 @ 8:40AMBritish-born Nasa astronaut to take piece of tree that aided scientist's discovery of gravity to international space station A British astronaut is planning a unique test of Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity – by taking an original piece of the scientist's famous apple tree on a 5m-mile journey into space. Sussex-born Piers Sellers plans to release the 10cm fragment in zero gravity during his ...
  • Ben Bova: The life of architecture ... from the Parthenon to Las Vegas' strip Saturday, April 3, 2010 @ 4:09PMI’ve just finished reading a fascinating book. It’s “The Secret Lives of Buildings” by Edward Hollis (Metropolitan Books; 352 pages; $28). Hollis is an architect and designer who teaches at the Edinburgh College of Art. As a practicing architect he specialized in alterations to historic buildings. His book is about historic buildings, from the Parthenon to the (no kidding) Las Vegas Strip.
  • Ten-year project to help prevent dementia uses 1940s study to track mental development over the decades Friday, March 12, 2010 @ 6:20AMA BICYCLE is propped up in the corner, the walls are lined with old books and there's a large oil portrait of a serious-looking, learned chap on the wall. So far, so very
  • Travel tips 23 February 2010 Monday, February 22, 2010 @ 9:10PMLima - The ancient Incan ruins of Machu Picchu are to be reopened to tourists in early April after heavy rain damaged the access routes to the popular destination in southern Peru, tourism officials said. ...
  • Travel tips 23 February 2010 Monday, February 22, 2010 @ 9:10PMLima - The ancient Incan ruins of Machu Picchu are to be reopened to tourists in early April after heavy rain damaged the access routes to the popular destination in southern Peru, tourism officials said. ...
  • Glass raised to Inverarity Vaults' latest director Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 6:05PMIT LOOKS like Stephen Paterson might be cracking open a bottle of something bubbly this weekend – but, then again, how else would you celebrate becoming a director of a wine m
  • Web site offers Shakespeare’s works to the masses Friday, January 29, 2010 @ 10:28AMIn an ordinary room off a beige corridor in a dull 1930s Oxford building, four priceless early editions of Hamlet lie thrillingly open on a large round table that once belonged to 19th century art critic and social thinker John Ruskin.
  • Investigators search for paranormal clues in city whisky cellars Thursday, January 21, 2010 @ 4:13AMTHE only spirits most people expect to find at the city's Scotch Malt Whisky Society vaults are the ones served in tumblers.
  • I Believe In Ghosts: Joe Swash - BBC3, 9pm Monday, January 18, 2010 @ 7:03PMThe former King of the Jungle is on a nationwide search for floating white sheets with eyeholes.
  • Douglas Fraser blogs on banker bonus points Tuesday, January 12, 2010 @ 3:05PMDon't be surprised that most attention to today's appearance before the Treasury select committee by Stephen Hester is focussed on his talk of banker bonuses.
  • Scotland's oldest book: A pocket-sized piece of historical dynamite Friday, December 11, 2009 @ 3:09AMFOR decades it has lain in the vaults of a Scottish university library, seen by only a handful of scholars.
  • 2°C - Foggy Friday, December 11, 2009 @ 1:07AMA TEENAGER died on the day doctors told him he had leukaemia.
  • 4°C - Rather cloudy with only a few clear intervals Friday, December 11, 2009 @ 1:07AMA TEENAGER died on the day doctors told him he had leukaemia.
  • Herald Scotland Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 5:30AMTeenager John Paterson was a picture of health, a strapping 6ft 2in boy who had never been seriously ill.
  • Down among the dead men Saturday, November 28, 2009 @ 5:14AM'I DON'T feel good right now at all, there's something here with me and I can feel it." The trembling voice is that of a rather sweaty and petrified Zak Bagans
  • Kate turns to pedal power Tuesday, November 17, 2009 @ 6:22PMA TEN-YEAR-OLD gymnast from Newton has helped raise money for her club by cycling 100 miles.
  • Kate turns to pedal power Friday, November 13, 2009 @ 4:23AMA TEN-YEAR-OLD gymnast from Newton has helped raise money for her club by cycling 100 miles.
  • Gold Jumps on India's 200-Tonne IMF Purchase, London Sees "Sea Change" in Market Tuesday, November 3, 2009 @ 8:28AMTHE PRICE OF GOLD rose sharply to 7-session highs against the Dollar and new 8-month highs vs. the Euro early Tuesday after the Reserve Bank of India said it bought 200 tonnes of gold from the International Monetary Fund late last month.
  • Edinburgh: Historic city is macabre but magic Wednesday, October 28, 2009 @ 5:55AMHistoric Edinburgh is at its best in the autumn and the city's darker side makes it the perfect location for Hallowe'en says Francesca Hoyles.
  • Horse Racing: Tylicki can unearth win with City Vaults Monday, October 19, 2009 @ 5:32AMCITY VAULTS GIRL can give Frederik Tylicki another winner in his quest to claim the apprentice jockeys' title.