Alison Campsie
Journalist at The Scotsman
Journalist at Scotland on Sunday
Journalist for @thescotsman and @scotonsunday. Writes mostly about Scottish heritage and culture but will go any time, anywhere. NE Coaster.
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11 hours ago |
scotsman.com | Alison Campsie
The New Town flat, which stars in a new Netflix crime series, is guilty of some serious gorgeousness. A garden flat in Edinburgh’s New Town that features in a new Netflix crime drama set in the capital has come onto the market. The property was used as a filming location for Dept Q, starring Kelly Macdonald, Chloe Pirrie and Mark Bonnar, which airs on Netflix on May 29. Owners of 22 Lennox Street are now hoping for plenty of viewings as the flat goes up for sale for offers over £1,095,000.
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21 hours ago |
scotsman.com | Alison Campsie
Photographer Craig Easton travelled to ‘An Extremely Un-get-atable Place’ to immerse himself in George Orwell’s former home. In George Orwell’s search for isolation from a troubled world on a Scottish island and the pursuit of pleasure in simple things, photographer Craig Easton has followed. Now, a new book that reimagines Orwell’s time at Barnhill on the Isle of Jura, where he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, his final novel and cautionary tale of totalitarianism, is now due.
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3 days ago |
scotsman.com | Alison Campsie
A Scottish island museum is to break up its collection and return a number of items to their donors. The Clan Donald Centre in Skye, which houses the Museum of the Isles and clan archive, is to be sold off along with Armadale Castle and several thousand acres of the Sleat Peninsula. The museum tells the story of both the largest clan in the world, its rulership of the Kingdom of the Isles and life in the Highlands and Islands over 1,500 years.
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4 days ago |
scotsman.com | Alison Campsie
The Kwik Fit founder and former owner of Hibs FC died peacefully at home in Edinburgh on Friday, his family said. Tributes have been paid to Scots tycoon Sir Tom Farmer - a man deeply respected for his business acumen, philanthropy and his transformative ownership of Hibernian FC - following his death aged 84. Sir Tom died peacefully at home in Edinburgh on Friday, with the news announced by his “deeply saddened” family on Saturday morning.
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4 days ago |
scotsman.com | Alison Campsie
The KwikFit founder and former owner of Hibs FC died peacefully at home in Edinburgh on Friday, his family said. Sir Tom Farmer, the founder of the KwikFit garage chain and former owner of Hibernian FC, has died at the age of 84. The Edinburgh-born businessman died peacefully at his home in the city on Friday, his family said. He built the company into the world's biggest independent tyre and automotive chain, selling it to Ford for £1bn in 1999.
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3,000 year old hat made from horse hair and found in Highland peatbog now of international significance Hat being beautifully reconstructed and will be presented to @socantscot conference next month @RoyalSocEd @NtlMuseumsScot https://t.co/DTng7Xtehx
Romance is not dead 🤍
Perfect ending as Scottish independent bookseller of year marries crime writer in her own shop, via @alicampsie75 https://t.co/gMi7XMYDAb