The female psychopath employs various ruses and schemes as she deceives unwitting targets. Flamboyance plus seduction or use ...

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a novelist, historian, poet and playwright. The prize is managed by the Abbotsford Trust with support from the Hawthornden Foundation, the Buccleuch Living ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Detectives have appealed for CCTV and dashcam footage of a car used in a fire attack on shops in Inverness. Police said the ...

This Scots form of hotel is recorded in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language through a number of 19th-century examples.

As an acclaimed romantic poet, beloved of Byron, then a best-selling novelist, envied by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott wrote into existence many of the myths and legends we still re-tell and he ...

Twelve of the best historical novelists have been longlisted for a £25,000 award named after famous Scottish writer and poet Sir Walter Scott. There Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction ...

The Victorian era gem was the vision of Charles Thornton, proprietor of the City Varieties, who submitted plans to build the ...

The Cauld Cock and Feather is making a comeback in the Old Town.

Police said the dark grey Skoda was deliberately reversed into the business units and set alight just before midnight on ...