Known for providing the most spectacular meteor showers, the annual Leonids is set to storm over Edinburgh this weekend. So set your eyes on the sky in the early hours of Saturday and Sunday – because you might ju...
Like seeing The Coca-Cola Truck tour the country or the tree going up in your nan’s house, a few things signal the arrival of Christmas in the UK. The release of John Lewis’ annual Christmas advert has become a national...
The term ‘national treasure’ gets thrown around too much for our liking. But if there’s one person it should be applied to, it’s David Attenborough. The face (and voice) of shows like Planet Earth, The Blue Planet and,...
There used to be a time when the streets were littered with cigarette butts. But in recent years we’ve seen them disappearing (hooray!) only to be replaced by fluorescent, plastic, single-use vapes (boo!). The sights of...
It doesn’t feel like 23 years ago, we saw Ginger, Babs and the rest of the birds all the birds breaking out of a chicken farm, for the now iconic animation movie Chicken Run. But come this Christmas, we’ll be watc...
It’s the summer holiday season and many of us have been or soon will be popping across the Channel to mainland Europe for a hard-earned break. (We just got back from Greece, thanks for asking.) Since leaving the EU in 2...
It’s the sort of promise we always make to ourselves before a holiday: to spend less time on our phones and live in the moment. Do we actually ever keep it? Of course not. We take photos, message our friends, read fashi...
Since the last time we saw Black Mirror on our screens, the world has hurtled further into the future with new terrifying technologies such as ChatGPT. It’s been four years since the last season, but the science fiction...
The trouble with fame is that once you hit the big time, it can be difficult to keep things simple. Tours get longer. Venues get larger. The music gets louder. But the opposite appears to be the case for Lewis Capaldi &...
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again again. It appears a third instalment to the hit musical comedy might be on its way, as creator Judy Craymer says she “knows there’s a trilogy there.” So ABBA fans rejoice as...