inside

ARRAN TIME your time

4. GPs on the rack Rural time bomb

9. Save the Bees Shock investigation

into killer pesticides

15. Justice for children Controversial debate

on child abuse

19. Non-iron Danger Peril in fabrics

20. Burns controversy Scots or English?

22. Scottish Estates On the way out?

26. My big secret Elaine C confesses

31. Letter from America Why Greece should be

Puerto Rico

38. What’s on Scotish events

41. At the Fringe Weird, wacky

and entertaining

48. Club Med - Scotland! Loch Fyne’s finest

53. Burlesque Glasgow Best in the world

58. Wee Ginger Dug The Ice Age cometh

60. Heart of Darkness Explorer’s slavery

nightmare

65. In a Scottish Light Photo Essay

72. Scotland’s last Unicorn Tapestry on view

75. Wizards of Oz Michael Palin’s

favourite team

80. Victorian Selfies! They took them, too

86. Falkland’s Outcasts Ignored and wronged

92. Painting the Past Still life studies

94. Major Bloodnok & Mystic Mons Meg

96. Heid Byler & Soduko Brain puzzlers

98. Letters page Read our star leter

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Arran “Scotland in Miniature”- where a really warm Scottish welcome awaits you

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From the moment you leave the ferry, you’ll discover just how much Arran has to offer. Goatfell rises majestically above Brodick, giving you an instant sense of the island’s rugged and colourful beauty.

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