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Akira
Release date: 1988
| Country: Japan | Running time: 124 min
| Genres: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi |
Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo
| Writers: Katsuhiro Ôtomo and
Izô Hashimoto
| BBFC 15
By Jack Weir
Akira’s cultural impact is immeasurable, creating the cyberpunk genre and single-handedly projecting anime into western culture for the first time. Watching it
A book to lift the spirits
The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
by Liz Treacher, Author
I think we probably all have a ‘go to’ book that we return to when we need a bit of a ‘pick-me-up.’ The History of Love by Nicole Krauss is the one I reread again and again. The novel
Pat, the irishman
W. A. M. MacKenzie remembers this local character and his horses, two big working Clydesdales used for clearing timber from the nearby forest in 1950s Invercharron farm.
By W.A.M. MacKenzie
Pat slipped into my boyhood ken almost unnoticed. There was no fanfare, no advance publicity. He and his
Regenerative farming
Farmers who use regenerative agriculture techniques accept that wildlife will share some of our harvest with us
by Donna Gillies
UK farming has been in the news a lot lately. The combination of Brexit, Covid-19 and climate change has made many people rethink their food choices and sources. During the
Dog, fox or wolf?
Gaelic, Norse, Brittonic? A look into the history and origins of placenames around our area
In Gaelic cù means ‘dog’ while the word madadh may mean either ‘dog’, ‘fox’ or ‘wolf’.
Meall nam Madadh, ‘Hill of the dog’ (or perhaps ‘wolf’) is a 627.9m hill by Càrn Bàn In
The Scottish Rosswell?
An unidentified object thought to have been a Russian Sputnik satellite was found on the hillside near Ardgay in 1962 by a shepherd named Donald Mackenzie.
By Dr David Clarke
Picture the scene: A shepherd visiting a remote area stumbles upon strange wreckage strewn across the ground which could be