• Doonhame Headliners Announced

    I had a BLAST at the first Doonhame Festival last years and the date for this year was the first festival that went in my 2020 diary and now we know the Doonhame Festival will return to the grounds of The Crichton in Dumfries for the second time on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th July

  • Order the most ‘Instagrammable’ drink made using a rare ruby cocoa bean

    Costa Coffee is offering customers the chance to win a RUBY worth £5,000 – by ordering a takeaway hot drink. The precious stones are currently being kept under lock and key by trained security specialists. But from today [February 11th] until Valentine’s Day every adult using Deliveroo to order a ‘Ruby Cocoa Hot Chocolate’ will

  • JAMESIE BURNS & THE BICYCLE THIEVES – Launches on Burns Birthday!

    Jamesie Burns and the Bicycle Thieves is a new children’s book adventure written by Ian Barr, Illustrated by Pete Bell and Published by Hoggett Creative. Local children’s character Jamesie Burns is poised to reappear, sixteen years after his last escapades, in a new heart-stopping adventure. Jamesie Burns and the Bicycle Thieves is a feature length

  • Would You Break Up Over Bathroom Behaviour?

    Seven in 10 British couples are engaging in ‘bathroom wars’ – arguing about the state the room is left in. A study of 2,000 adults found men are left incensed by their partner not clearing their hair out of the plug hole – and women are horrified by the mess or the ghastly smell left

  • What Are The Questions British Kids Want Answered

    The existence of the Loch Ness monster, ghosts and aliens are the real mysteries the nation’s children would love to have answered. A poll of 1,000 primary school-aged children revealed ghosts are the number one curiosity, with 32 per cent of youngsters wanting to know whether they exist. Three in 10 want an answer on