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Catherine Rayner’s Inspirational Pets
Prize-winning children’s author and illustrator, Catherine Rayner, has opened an exhibition of new and original art work at the Line Gallery in Linlithgow. Several of her best known characters, including Miles and Giles, the scurrying pheasants, appear but the largest single set of subjects are Harris, Miriam, Frazer and a rich collection of their fellow-hares.
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Of Mice and Men
On the wrong side of The American Dream, friendship is all you have.
In Steinbeck’s gripping masterpiece, two migrant field workers travel through California in search of their very own piece of the American Dream.
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Bathgate’s Burns’ Enthusiast
Burns enthusiasts every January celebrate the Birthday of Scotland’s national bard but it is doubtful if any mark it in such an elaborate manner as Bathgate spinning wheel maker John Stark did during Victorian times. Every year on 25th January, Starkie, as he was known in the old mining and weaving burgh, marked the birthday of his favourite poet by declaring Burns’ Day a personal holiday Read the rest of this entry »
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Dunbar’s Dream
If you could get a group of people from a community together and if you dared ask them what they would like to see changed in their town, you would be sure to end up with a wish-list so daunting that you’d say it was impossible. That’s what’s happened in Dunbar; but a group coordinated by Philip Revel has produced the Sustaining Dunbar Local Resilience Action Plan, which tackles issues, one by one, breaking them down into tiny steps which are not daunting and not impossible.
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