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The Old Edinburgh Club draws our attention to what happened in the capital in years and centuries gone by. Day Event 1st: In 1918, Dame Muriel Spark (author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) was born ...

With Simon Hornby at Smiths he led a drive for diversification, and at the CAA took National Air Traffic Services into part-private hands Sir Malcolm Field, who has died aged 87, was chief ...

Sir Rod Stewart has just celebrated his 80th birthday and marked the occasion in a big way. The rock singer was in the party mood for the milestone age and, as this is the guy behind the hits Da ...

To my mind, however, the man who invented Scottish tourism was our greatest literary figure of the early 19th century, Sir Walter Scott. Apart from his invention of tartanry that marked the visit of ...

Musk has accused Sir Keir of being "complicit in the crimes" of child sex offenders during his time as chief prosecutor and labelled Home Office Minister Jess Phillips a "rape genocide apologist." ...