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The farewell

The farewell

Release date: 2019 | Country: USA, China | Running time: 100 min | Genres: Comedy, Drama | Director: Lulu Wang Starring: Shuzhen Zhao, Awkwafina, X Mayo | BBFC PG  By Jack Weir Lulu Wang’s The Farewell stars Awkwafina as Billi, a Chinese-American woman becoming accustomed to her eastern culture after years living in New

A most intriguing library

A most intriguing library

The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig by Liz Treacher, Author Imagine if, somewhere between life and death, there is a library with shelves that go on for ever. And every shelf contains books describing every different life you might have lived... Intrigued yet? I’m sure you are, because we

Lord Mac Haw Haw

Lord Mac Haw Haw

Few Scots ever admitted to listening to German propaganda radio broadcasts during the Second World War. A fewer still realized that the original Lord Haw Haw was a disgraced former officer from the Seaforth Highlanders.  By Paul Cowan Norman Baillie-Stewart was jailed in the Tower of London after being caught

Second World War pillboxes

Second World War pillboxes

Eighty years ago, in 1940/41 more than 30 anti-invasion concrete structures were built around the Kyle of Sutherland and the Dornoch firth. These were in the form of pillboxes, road blocks and gun emplacements. By Gregor Laing  After the evacuation of Dunkirk in May 1940, a German invasion of

Kyle Chronicle #6

Kyle Chronicle #6

Rosehall links with slavery

Rosehall links with slavery

In Guyana's Berbice region, a handful of interrelated families from the north Highlands were the first to build sugar-cane plantations. Among them were the Baillies of Rosehall. The first recorded owner of Rosehall Estate, which included the east side of Glen Cassley –the west side being a part

Cherry & Bryan Alexander

Cherry & Bryan Alexander

Interview with renowned photographer couple specialising in the Polar regions Ardgay-based photographers Cherry & Bryan Alexander have been travelling to the  polar regions for the last 49 years. Bryan documents the lives of the native peoples of Northern Siberia, Greenland, Alaska, Arctic Canada and Arctic Scandinavia, while Cherry photographs wildlife,