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Scotland

Literary lacuna The novel that never was Rory Knight Bruce T here is a scene in James Hogg's 19th-century religious nightmare, Confes- sions of a Justified Sinner, when the tor-......

Fishing

Low tide for seamen Allan Massie ANEURIN Bevan once described Britain as 'an island of coal surrounded by fish'. Now the coal industry contracts and the fish are running out.......