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Our Top Scots in their own words - a Burns Night celebration of talent

Professor Dame Sue Black said receiving news of her appointment to the Order of the Thistle was 'somewhat surreal'. PIC: PA.

'The somewhat surreal moment I received Scotland's highest honour '

The average British worker believes it’s too late to change careers by the age o...

Christopher Baker, director of European and Scottish art and portraiture at the National Galleries of Scotland, poses in front of the Three Oncologists by Ken Currie (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Alexander McCall Smith: Why we'll always have painted portraits

Professor Dame Sue Black and artist Ken Currie in front of Currie's new portrait, called Unknown Man (Picture: Neil Hanna)

A new portrait that creates a powerful and lasting impression – Laura Waddell

Sue Black

Book review: Written In Bone, by Sue Black

Black said technology has changed her life and opened up so many opportunities. Picture: contributed.

Professor Sue Black to highlight tech benefits at Women’s Economic Empowerment e...

Ruth Davidson has written on death and grief, and how as a teenager, she was prepared to die for her country.

Ruth Davidson reveals she'd die for her country - but not kill for it

The face of the "brutally murdered" Pictish man. Picture: Dundee University

'Brutally murdered' Pictish man may have been royalty, Scots experts say

Top Microsoft man to address Edinburgh tech event

Google's chief decision scientist Cassie Kozyrkov will speak at the two-day data conference in Edinburgh. Picture: Joshua Zuckerman

Google scientist to speak at Edinburgh Data Summit

The woman's remains were exhumed at Wardlaw Mausoleum at Kirkhill near Inverness in the search for the body of former clan chief Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, who was executed after Culloden. PIC: Contributed.

Mystery of headless woman found in clan chief’s coffin unravels

Sarah Maine author. Picture: contributed

Author's debut novel hailed '˜Scotland's best book'

Prize winner Sue Black. Picture: Pako Mera/REX/Shutterstock

Scottish forensic scientist wins Saltire literary prize

Irvine Welsh is among contenders for the Saltire Literary Awards. Picture: Alistair Linford

Irvine Welsh among contenders for Saltire Literary Awards

Craig Clark, CEO of Clyde Space Limited, one of a number of companies who are building Scotland's reputation as a centre for space and satellite technology. PIC: John Devlin/TSPL.

Scotland's space and satellite entrepreneurs urged to enter EIE 2019

The mystery over the final resting place of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, continues. PIC: Creative Commons.

New twist in search for body of clan chief

Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Denise Mina at Bloody Scotland, Scotland's International Crime Writing Festival in Stirling last year. Picture: Paul Reich

Feature: Bloody Scotland returns to Stirling this weekend

Sue Black told the audience forensic science doesnt always sway jury. Picture: Contributed

Edinburgh Book Festival: Sue Black's tale of injustice shocked audiences

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to students at an event promoting careers in construction. Picture: Getty

Kirsty Gunn: Beware talk about the success of '˜small countries'

Dame Professor Sue Black is comfortable with bones and decomposing bodies but definitely not with rats. Picture: PA

Leading forensic scientist Sue Black on her new book All That Remains

Professor Sue Black, forensic anthropologist and author

Book review: All That Remains - A Life In Death, By Sue Black

A sketch of William Bury from The Dundee Courier at the time of his trial. PIC: Wikimedia.

19th century wife killer William Bury '˜acquitted' in retrial

Professor Dame Sue Black, of Dundee University, with Bury's vertebrae. PIC: Contributed.

Case of last hanged Dundee man back in court 130 years on

Sir Andrew Cubie CBE, FRSE is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Convenor of the RSEs Outreach Programmes.

Sir Andrew Cubie: It's good to talk about science to stimulate the mind

Profesor Dame Sue Blacs leading the exhumation at Wardlaw Mausoleum near Invernes today. PIC: Peter Jolly

Bones of elderly man found in hunt for notorious clan chief

The exhumation could solve the mystery surrounding the final burial place of Simon "The Fox" Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat. PIC:Contributed.

Exhumation in Highlands to solve clan chief burial mystery

Professor Sue Black Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology in the dissecting room at Dundee University. Picture: Ian Rutherford

Kirsty Gunn: Forensic expertise of a grande dame gives us the gift of answers an...

Actor Alan Alda. Picture: Getty Images)

MAS*H actor Alan Alda gets honorary degree from Dundee Uni

Simon, 11th Lord Lovat, chief of Clan Fraser, was beheaded following his role in the 1745 Jacobite rising. PIC: Wikimedia

The beheading of Clan Fraser chief watched by thousands

Police Scotland search a location linked to the disapearance of Moira Anderson.

Canal search for Moira Anderson 60 years after disappearance

The event at the University of Dundee runs until Friday. Picture: Wikicommons

Women in science festival gets underway in Dundee

The face of the "brutally murdered" Pictish man. Picture: Dundee University

Scots experts reconstruct face of Pict murdered 1400 years ago

Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat PIC Wikimedia Commons.

Forensic experts to solve 270-year-old mystery of clan chief 'The Fox'

The memorial cairn to James of the Glen at Ballachulish. PIC www.geograph.co.uk

Appin Murder: the 1752 miscarriage of justice

Prof Sue Black will work with skeletons discovered by archaeologists. Picture: Hemedia

750-year-old skeletons will give picture of medieval Aberdeen

The Playwright. Picture: Jane Barlow

An insider's guide to Dundee: Seven places the locals love

Scots ‘donating bodies to science to avoid funeral costs’

Crime writer Val McDermid. Picture: Phil Wilkinson/TSPL

10k enroll on Val McDermid-inspired forensics course

A member of the police forensic team sifts through an area near Dalmagarry Quarry in 2004. Picture: PA

Dalmagarry ‘murder’ quarry to reopen

Sir Chris Hoy: Greatest of all the worlds cycling Olympians. Picture: SNS

The Scots who have earned the nation’s thanks the most

Val McDermid said she was 'very proud' to have the mortuary named after her. Picture: Phil Wilkinson

Mortuary to be named after Val McDermid
WIRE in the Blood creator Val McDermid is to have a mortuary named after her.

Syrian opposition member Haitham al-Maleh sits alone during the Geneva-2 peace conference in Montreux. Picture: Reuters

Mutual hostility greets start of Syria peace talks

A police handout of the victim, 66-year-old Phyllis Dunleavy from Dublin. Picture: Submitted

Corstorphine Hill: Victim named and man arrested

US students: Set to try fish supper. Picture: PA

US exchange students to get taste of Scotland

Scottish Author Val McDermid. Picture: Neil Hanna

Dundee University to honour author Val McDermid

Book celebrating donations to medical science wins Dundee University award

Deadly cookbook featuring recipes by Scots crime writers shortlisted for global ...

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Book Festival review: The marvel of Hilary Mantel

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Writers offer chance to be famous corpse

Interview: Sue Black, professor

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Bookwork: ‘There isn’t a research morgue like this in the whole of North America...

Life sentence for paedophile who raped baby girl

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Some light on old bones

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Renee Macrae - are police nearing the truth?

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