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Hundreds of people gathered on Eastbourne seafront to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day.
Series highlights include the duo donning Viking costumes and axe throwing in Norway, camping at a windmill near Amsterdam ...
The event at the Erskine home near Glasgow was reminiscent of the street parties held to celebrate VE Day 80 years ago.
Celtic tradition comes to life at Edinburgh’s Beltane Fire Festival - Fire dancers, drummers and painted pagan gods bring ...
Arran is dubbed “Scotland in Miniature”, and for once ... After being invited to join the ultra-friendly locals for a BBQ and bonfire, I headed out to the Knap of Howar, a Neolithic site ...
How civil servants became the enemy. By William Davies Four days into the second Trump presidency, a comment piece appeared in the Daily Telegraph entitled “If Trump succeeds in reinventing government ...
On her Downing Street desk was a copy of Scottish poet Charles Mackay’s “No Enemies” which she referenced repeatedly. “You have no enemies, you say?” it begins. “Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He ...
Walpurgis (or Valborg) Night, tomorrow, is the night of the bonfire in Sweden, traditionally believed to ward off evil spirits, but now a festive way of incinerating excess gardening and household ...
The Scotland men’s cricket team players have taken a short trip to Zimbabwe for a training camp. Cricket Scotland organised the tour to prepare their players ahead of a gruelling international ...
The 19-year-old accused of setting a bonfire that ballooned into the still-burning, 15,000-acre Jones Road Wildfire was intentional with his actions, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer said ...
So how did a nearly forgotten pagan fire ritual become one of Scotland’s most iconic annual ... out their individual home fires, and a grand bonfire, known as a “need-fire,” would be lit ...