Profile-Louise Marshall Millington

Piping Hot-Louise Marshall Millington was just two when she started to learn tunes from her famous father in Gretna Green. Now she bagpipes all over the world and is an influential figure in making the instrument cool once again...

Towns - Dalbeattie, see you there

Have you ever, in a moment of high jinks, slapped on that very distinctive carroty ginger wig and tartan tammy ensemble known to one and all as the ‘See You Jimmy’ hat? Chances are high it came from Dalbeattie. Have you ever sipped appreciatively on a delicious and particularly creamy and fruity liqueur? Chances are high it came from Dalbeattie.

Food & Drink - The Allotment, Dumfries

The Allotment, Dumfries Do you remember those days, long before giant, edge-of-town supermarkets ruled the retail world, long before you could shop for your food without leaving your house, simply by using a computer?

Determined, stubborn, passionate, brave: all words to describe Tommy Henderson, who, as chairman of Dalbeattie Museum, has drawn on all of these characteristics in his ongoing quest to bring his beloved hometown to a wider audience.

Border Ballads, Badlands I’ve always felt that the Hollywood directors of the Fifties and Sixties got it wrong. Wild West indeed! In my humble opinion, it had nothing on the Anglo/Scottish Borders some 400 years ago when Elizabeth I was on the English throne and James VI was champing on the bit further north.

Arts & Leisure - Go create

Young people from Maxwelltown High School and Lincluden Primary helped get Dumfries’s recently refurbished Midsteeple off to a great start with some innovative artwork which formed part of The D&G Collection. The exhibition, which included fashion, film, photography, sculpture, a documentary and a fashion magazine, was one of the results of a year-long visual arts and education programme, Italy.Scotland.

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Advertising feature. There are many things that don’t move with the times and games that used to be family favourites that are now hardly played as they are seen as old fashioned.

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