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The Scotsman
24 Apr, 2018
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Fiona Hutchison: Let’s work togetether to offer tourists the best of Scotland
One dreich day years ago I was confronted by Duane Hanson’s Tourism sculpture in Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art. Hanson was interested in the banality of consumer society. He cast models of figures in ordinary mundane situations, in this case a couple with sunglasses and cameras gazing upwards at some unidentified spectacle with glaikit expressions.
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Leader comment: Drivers are no cash cow for councils

As The Scotsman reveals today, motorists paid more than £70 million in council car parking charges last year, after a rise of more than three times the rate of inflation on the previous year.
Darren McGarvey: The cocksure knuckledraggers who still dismiss rap

Last week, American rapper Kendrick Lamar stunned many in the Western cultural sphere by winning the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Alistair Dutton: A WEE BOX makes a BIG difference for families in poverty

As the deadline of 8 May for our WEE BOX appeal donations being doubled by the UK government fast approaches, it’s worth celebrating how support from people in Scotland is changing lives overseas.

Rosyth to Zeebrugge ferry service axed

The freight ferry service from the port of Rosyth to Zeebrugge in Belgium has been closed after its operators said they had “lost all hope” of being able turn around the lossmaking route.

Sport Update
Revealed: Celtic’s new home strip for 2018-19 season

Celtic have revealed their new home kit for the 2018-19 season.
Rangers could be missing two key players for trip to face Celtic

Rangers boss Graeme Murty admits goalkeeper Wes Foderingham is a doubt for next weekend’s title-decider at Parkhead.
Leigh Griffiths nominates Pedro Caixinha for Celtic Player of the Year

Leigh Griffiths has added to Celtic’s trolling of Rangers following last Sunday’s Scottish Cup semi-final victory over their rivals with a leftfield nomination for the Hoops’ player of the year.
And finally...
Theatre review: Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow

There’s no doubt that Eugene O’Neill’s great 1942 masterpiece is a family drama, par excellence. The entire action is set in the summer of 1912 in the living room of the Tyrone family’s shabby seaside cottage in Connecticut. The characters are the famous if ageing actor James, his wife Mary, their two sons Jamie and Edmund, and the maid of all work, Cathleen; and the play’s subject, explored relentlessly over more than three hours, is the fraught and increasingly impossible state of relations among the Tyrones.
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