Annie Brown

Jan 26, 2025 | dailymail.co.uk | Annie Brown

The Holocaust survivors who lived in the Romanian town of Targu Mures were sceptical when a group of Scots arrived offering help. Too many times visitors had pledged their support and delivered nothing more than empty promises. Since they had emerged starved and brutalised from the liberation of the Nazi death camps they had become a forgotten people. By some miracle they had survived the systematic murder of six million of their fellow Jews yet their struggle had been far from over.

Dec 6, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Annie Brown

When Angela MacVicar set up the charity Rainbow Valley in memory of her precious daughter Johanna, there was one woman she trusted more than any other to run it: the best friend who had been by her side through the darkest of times. Lindsay MacCallum was Angela’s closest confidante: her first phone call every day, the friend who helped her through crushing grief after Johanna died from leukaemia aged 27.

Nov 29, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Annie Brown

From the dusty old workshop of woodcarver Callum Robinson, objects of alluring beauty emerge: the cigar cabinet of cedar and gold, encased in butter-soft Scottish leather destined for Bond Street; a bespoke chest in sculpted oak sourced from the ancestral estate of Princess Diana and commissioned to hold a million-dollar Swiss watch.

Nov 15, 2024 | thisismoney.co.uk | Annie Brown

In October 1977 when teenagers Helen Scott and Christine Eadie were found brutally murdered after a night out at Edinburgh’s World End pub, fear stalked the young women of the city. The bodies of the 17 year-olds were discovered in the East Lothian countryside the day after they disappeared; abandoned in plain sight; they were bound and gagged and strangled with their own underwear.

Nov 10, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Annie Brown

In 2001, when producer Sarah Purser moved into the architectural splendour of Grosvenor Terrace in Glasgow’s West End, the previous owners left a welcome gift; a paperback of the epic novel Wax Fruit. The literary classic chronicles the lives and dizzying social ascent of the fictional Moorhouse dynasty, from humble beginnings on a Highland farm to the powerhouse of Victorian Glasgow’s high society.