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Scot who burnt down White House causes a stir again A MINIATURE portrait of a Scottish naval officer who helped burn down the White House in a British attack on Washington is being sold by his family 200 years later.

Tartan Week: From curling to catwalk as ice star heads for New York TEENAGE Olympic curler Eve Muirhead is set to swap the ice rink for the catwalk after being named as one of the models at this year's Dressed to Kilt event in New York.

In the years before his death, Fryderyk Chopin played regularly for the great and the good of Scotland. And usually to be found at the Polish composer's side was the Scotswoman some thought would one day become Madame Chopin IN 4 October, 1848, Fryderyk Chopin, the Polish composer and pianist who had more or less revolutionised classical piano playing, took the stage at Edinburgh's Hopetoun Rooms before the cream of the city's society and gave a performance which

What were Macbeth and his wife Gruoch really like? THE NAME Macbeth has been so besmirched and blackened with blood it is now a byword for butchery and venal, vaulting political ambition. As for the Thane of Cawdor's "fiend-like queen," she's the archetypal evil woman.

Nostalgia: Sheer poetry burned on our memory

Shooting history: Scots at war

Jan Baalsrud: The other Great Escape

Body snatchers Burke and Hare turned into comic book stars

Lothian Murder Files: 'Uncle Paddy' killed young girls out playing on a dark winter's afternoon

A forensic study of Burke and Hare's crimes

Brian Whittingham started as an apprentice at John Brown's shipyard on Clydeside when he was just 14, and his five years at the yard, shaped him for life. Now, 40 years on, he has written a book of poetry

Your Memories: 'Hearts were Scotland's top team in those days'

Best of Scotland (D)

An anthology of modern verse inspired by Robert Burns heads Robert Nye's pick of new Scottish poetry collections

Long live the radical, surreal versions of the Bard dreamed up by Scottish theatre makers to mark his 250th birthday

Many of the great European composers of his era wrote music for Burns's poems – Haydn's is released today

Best Burns song: Your chance to vote

Recalling a violent history

Author battles to clear 'butcher of Culloden'

Coconut Tam and the secrets of Royal Mile

California man dies in shark attack

Anyone descended from Culloden winners?

Isa's wartime memories of battle-hardened city

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