The song's origins date back to an 18th-century Scottish ballad, with Auld Lang Syne eventually becoming a New Year's celebration staple. Experts explained the song's lyrics, origin and staying power.

Son of the Century shows how Mussolini, a former editor of the Italian Socialist Party’s official newspaper, fell out with the left and used any means necessary, up to and including murder ...

MOTHERWELL has emerged as Scotland’s drink-driving capital. And the Outer Hebrides are the only other area north of the border to make the UK's infamous top ten. Figures from the Driver and ...

Ramsay treats of men and women - their loves, their pleasures ... and that his writings appealed to an educated class which in the latter half of the century was to give Scottish society its ...

An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...

However, there are certain things people in Scotland have done on December ... and its words come from a poem penned by Robert Burns in the 18th century. The phrase 'auld lang syne' means 'times ...

By Gary Trust Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” crowns the Billboard Hot 100 for an 18th total week. The carol, which leads for a fourth consecutive week this holiday season ...

Scotland’s struggling NHS is spending millions of pounds a year on “useless frivolities” such as overseas travel, hospitality and entertainment, it has been alleged. Figures obtained from ...

The tabard was worn to the Coronation of George IV and tells a story of the changing relationship between Scotland and the ... period punctuated by the 18th-century Jacobite risings, which aimed ...

The tabard was worn to the Coronation of George IV and tells a story of the changing relationship between Scotland and the British monarchy. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Banbury ...

Christmas in Scotland has an unusual and rather troubled history. As reported by the Daily Record, the holiday was actually outlawed in the country hundreds of years ago amid the Scottish Reformation.

JK Rowling has led a feminist backlash over claims made by former Scottish First Minister Nichola Sturgeon over her infamous gender self-ID law. Rowling was responding to comments by Sturgeon ...