Lifestyle

The unrelenting pressures of modern life are changing attitudes towards drinking culture, writes Jamie Wild, founder of ‘Scotland’s first alcohol-free spirit’ Feragaia.

Buying clothese from charity shops is a way to avoid the problems caused by the global fast fashion industry, writes Susan Dalgety.

The Bathgate singer was caught on camera giving his reaction to a karaoke singer.

We were somewhere in flat arable land in Leicestershire trying to get back to the place we’d dropped Ella off earlier in the day. She was having one of those supercar driving experiences on' a disused airfield.

Edinburgh’s premier shopping street could be transformed into a host of cafes and restaurants and become “more authentic” under plans to relax strict planning rules.

It will forever be synonymous with Scotland, but the humble haggis has now gone global, with exports of the dish immortalised by Robert Burns increasing by 136 per cent in the past decade.

Scottish foods that are sold in Europe could be hit by a 50 per cent-plus price hike following Brexit, it has been claimed.

After the long, dark days of Dry January and/or Veganuary, along comes the long-dead Robert Burns as a gatecrasher starting a party with a haggis and a bottle of whisky, writes Stephen Jardine.

If you’re heading abroad to Europe after Brexit, is it best to buy your Euros now or after 31 January 2020?

You would think that we live in one of the worst places on the planet if you believed some of the chatter on social media and ­elsewhere – Edinburgh City Council in crisis, councillors fighting amongst each other in public and ­private, ­tourism on the rocks, poverty and unemployment growing, ­business floundering, residents in revolt, infrastructure crumbling, shiny new trams and pedestrian roads we can’t afford.