Music can play a critical role in a child’s development
THE launch of Scotland on Sunday’s Let the Children Play campaign is very welcome indeed. Young people spend more time listening to, talking about, or making music than any other creative pursuit.The...
View ArticleFive vital steps on the way to free music lessons in schools
TODAY, Scotland on Sunday publishes its five-point “road map” towards giving children across Scotland free instrumental music lessons. In the past three weeks, we have heard from academics, musicians,...
View ArticleLet the children play case study: Mother of twins faced with agonising choice
WHEN Louise Burns’ twin boys started high school this year she was keen that they both start learning an instrument. As a clarinetist herself who played in local school groups and the Tayside Wind...
View ArticleMusic tuition fees in Scotland may breach UN rights
SCOTLAND’S charges for music tuition in schools may be in danger of contravening the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child, according to the Scottish Government’s children’s...
View ArticleScotland on Sunday cartoon 16/09/12
This week our cartoonist has some fun at the First Minister’s expense. Would the French paps be interested in snapping this topless celebrity?Illustration Brian Adcock
View ArticleChitra Ramaswamy: ‘Love is lovely and everything but, you know, it’s like...
IT HAS been a while since I’ve been to a wedding. I don’t really have the kind of friends who get married. Don’t worry, they’re not a bunch of politicians with two heads.They come in pairs, like much...
View ArticleSleeve notes: Robbie Williams on his new fashion range, Farrell.
WHAT’S a man to do? You’re a global rock superstar at the age of 18, you’ve made shedloads of cash (at one stage your personal fortune is estimated at £85 million). Then it all just kind of stops....
View ArticleMoD seeks safeguards over BAE merger
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is understood to have told BAE Systems and proposed merger partner EADS they must provide safeguards over Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons programme before their...
View ArticleTom Kitchin: Boudin of lamb sweetbreads | Chicken mousse | Short saddle of lamb
LAMB may be available all year round, but it is during the autumn that it is at its most succulent. From now until around the end of October is the perfect time to enjoy the taste and versatility of...
View ArticleLifelines: Shona Manson on family diversity
If you are affected by any of the issues in Lifelines and require further advice, contact GAY REVELATIONI am a 60-year-old mother of three wonderful grown-up sons. All have good jobs and the eldest and...
View ArticleJonathan Trew: Battles, witchcraft and technology are promised
BLOODY Scotland may well be a phrase that will be increasingly bandied around No 10 Downing Street over the next couple of years, but it’s also the name of this weekend’s inaugural festival of Scottish...
View ArticleWalk of the week: Carnoustie Links
WAY back when walking was the standard mode of transport, not a pastime, areas of low-lying land next to the sea were viewed as the poorest – unsuitable for building on or growing crops; only cattle...
View ArticleLynn O’ Rourke:‘I’m lusting after a Kissing Stags sleeping bag’
Maybe it is just me, but there seems to be a real sense of season’s change in the air. There is that feeling of letting go of the summer that never was and gearing up for autumn.Or it could just be my...
View ArticleLouisa Pearson: ‘It’s the fact that some mushrooms look so ordinary that’s...
RUSTLE. Crinkle. Did you hear that? That was the sound of mushrooms pushing through fallen leaves. So what’s your reaction? Reach for the frying pan or steer well clear?Foraging for mushrooms is...
View ArticleInterview: Bruce Willis, actor
IN A rare interview, movie tough guy Bruce Willis shows he is really a self-deprecating big softie who is devoted to his daughters – and grateful he can still roll with the punchesBruce Willis is the...
View ArticleSir Chris Hoy and Edinburgh’s Olympic heroes parade through Capital
TENS of thousands of fans lined the streets of Edinburgh today to celebrate the achievements of the city’s Olympic heroes.Sir Chris Hoy and silver-medal canoeist David Florence, were among those...
View ArticleHealth and fitness
Work out with your weans at Turtle Tots, a new swimming class for toddlers that benefits mums and dads too.While it teaches the little ones water confidence and stroke development through singing and...
View ArticleRestuarant review: Houston House, Uphall, West Lothian
THE Jeremy Wares story is a remarkable one that bears retelling. After training in a two-Michelin-starred restaurant in Paris, the Perthshire chef worked around the world before decamping back to...
View ArticleDish of the Day: The Sustainable Restaurant Association
The organic trend has passed its sell-by date. The new buzz word in food and tourism is sustainability – and this one is here to stayWHY has Edinburgh chef Neil Forbes just stepped off a grass roof in...
View ArticleTravel: Dalmatian coast and Greek Islands cruise
THE EFFORTLESS joy of cruising is made even better when a small ship means you can get up close and personal with the staggeringly beautiful Dalmatian sceneryWe sailed out of Venice. Let me repeat that...
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