The Mountain, or Appalachian Dulcimer first appeared in the United States in the early 1800’s in the southern Appalachian mountains. The Scots-Irish settlers were the ones to introduce it. It is in the Zither family, although it is not played by hammering the strings, as is the tradition with these ...
By Michael MacLeod and Cara Sulieman JUST a day earlier they had been talking excitedly about their plans for Christmas, looking forward to time off for the festive season, helping customers with their own holiday plans. But today it was so very different as many of the 100 or so staff who turned up ...
By Andrea McCallum STUNNED travellers turned up at Edinburgh Airport unaware about the collapse of Flyglobespan – only to learn their plans had been left in ruins. Some had travelled from as far afield as Aberdeen and Dundee to learn the news, others were en-route for family Christmas reunions abroa ...
By Shaun Milne ONE Scots business told how the collapse of Flyglobespan would have a huge knock on affect on them just months after securing what had been their biggest contract win of the year to supply the airline with uniforms. Gill Eastgate, company director of corporate couture supplier NKD Clo ...
By Andrea McCallum SCOTS travellers are being warned to beware of plunging temperatures and travel chaos as heavy snow hits this weekend – with forecasters issuing early weather warnings for much of the country. The worst of the snowfall was expected to hit south-east Britain overnight, but sleet an ...
By Oliver Farrimond THE number of NHS staff earning wages totalling £100,000 or more is costing the Scottish taxpayer a staggering £230 million a year. Almost 2,000 Scottish health workers collected six-figure pay packets. The vast majority work as clinicians but an investigation using FOI legislati ...
By Andrea McCallum SUSAN Boyle proved to be a class act when she returned to her old school in Blackburn – much to the delight of stunned pupils and staff. The album-chart topper appeared unannounced at the official opening of her former secondary school’s £19 million refurbishment. CLASS ACT: Susan ...
By Oliver Farrimond BRAVE firefighters battled a blaze in snowy Fife yesterday. Five fire engines were called to a first-floor flat engulfed in flames at Calder Drive, Glenrothes, and fought the blaze for almost an hour. Fife Fire and Rescue Service confirmed that two people had been treated for inj ...
By Oliver Farrimond Scots retailers are enjoying a boost in sales thanks to this becoming the first ever Twitter-Christmas – with brands and bargains being pushed onto shoppers via the social networking success. Scores of high-street brands familiar to Scots shoppers have embraced the social network ...
