Month: July 2024
HISTORY: LACHIE STEWART WAS VALE OF LEVEN’S GOLDEN BOY
Gold medals are not reserved to Olympians. Scotland’s Lachie Stewart celebrates after winning Gold in the 10,000m at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1970.
HALDANE GIRL DONE WELL: TOP HONOUR FOR SHARLEEN SPITERI
Vale of Leven Academy FP Scotland’s Sharleen Spiteri has received a prestigious award in France. After being honoured with the Legion of Honour medal at
Edna O’Brien, Ireland’s Daring Chronicler of Women’s Lives, Dies at 93
Edna O’Brien at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Picture by Bill Heaney | Edna O’Brien in 2006. Much of her early work included aspects of autobiography,
Poem for Today The Ministry of Fear by Seamus Heaney
Poem for Today The Ministry of Fear by Seamus Heaney Well, as Kavanagh said, we have lived In important places. The lonely scarp Of St
BOOKS: In the ‘Booker Dozen’ mix from The Guardian
In the ‘Booker Dozen’ mix It’s T-minus 54 hours until the Booker prize 2024 longlist is unveiled, and so we thought it only right to