The best laid plans of mice and men do often go awry.” I submit that this prophecy especially applies to anything having to ...

Author Joseph Bruchac shares a poem about a bumblebee and how taking the time to listen to the natural world led him to it.

In Scotland's wildest region, a famous Swiss gallery-owning couple, Iwan and Manuela Wirth, have restored the noble Fife Arms ...

Mauchline Holy Fair returns from May 24-31 with a week of history, music, poetry and Burns-inspired celebrations, culminating in a spectacular ...

A SCOTS language champion and a literary translator are set to host free talks in South Ayrshire. These talks will continue on Wednesdays at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway. Booking is ...

Sold out play follows Giovanni Placido Agostino Pascoli as he arrives in the afterlife and is intercepted by Robert Burns.

A number of Scottish idioms and phrases feature prominently in a British ... Another classic phrase, "the best-laid plans," ...

A controversy has raged among the intelligentsia of Paris this winter about an unlikely subject: not race or gender, for once, but taste.

Traumatised David Donaldson informs us of a tragedy in his home last week, namely the demise of his beloved and trusty tumble dryer. Adds our grieving correspondent: “Its replacement arrived and ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Inverkeithing based Muir Homes has welcomed back Robert Herd in a new position as managing director. The Scottish housebuilder, which is ...