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Secondary pupils in Shetland are being urged to take part in a survey on mental health provisions in schools.

Bryan Kristopowitz talks with Guns of Eden star Alexandra Faye Sadeghian about her role in the film, becoming a full-fledged action star and more.

Lockdown, lowdown… She was the epitome of a female police officer in a duo that rocked our world when it arrived in the UK and became an icon for all women. Troubled and flaky, the role she played in the Ying/Yang double act when her partner was safe, secure and married whilst she was unstable, insecure, and single was enough for her legacy as an actor to be assured. And then she pitched up as Michael’s mum. Sharon Gless was iconic in Cagney and Lacey. Cagney and Lacey was, in itself, iconi...

Exclusive Twelve group alliance demands a right to regular school lessons outdoors and a new Scots recreation minister A GUARANTEE that all school pupils in Scotland will have the right to benefit from the outdoors supported by a new government outdoor recreation champion has been demanded by a coaltion of a dozen recreation groups. The appeal to MSPs has come as one study showed that around two in five young people in Scotland were concerned about their mental health and wellbeing during ...

MARK BEAUMONT Thinking back to when he grew up on a farm near Blairgowrie, record breaking round the world cyclist and adventurer Mark Beaumont reckons he had something of a “wild man” existence during childhood. Home schooled and “feral” until the age of 12, the former Dundee High School pupil knew how to hunt rabbits and make his own shoes out of rabbit skins. Every morning he’d have to get up to help milk 60 goats and collect eggs from 200 hens. While he knows now he probably took ...

Scots pupils to have the right to outdoor activity in new plan to fight mental health concerns Scots pupils to have the right to outdoor activity in new plan to fight mental health concerns A PLAN to guarantee all young people in Scotland have the right to benefit from the outdoors is being drawn up as a study showed that around two in five young people in Scotland were concerned about their mental health and wellbeing during lockdown. Scottish adventurers Mollie Hughes and Marc Beaumont ha...

Blues Beat: New release has blues world buzzing Domenic Forcella FacebookTwitterEmail Don Destefano joins other talented musicians playing the music of the Grateful Dead Saturday and Sunday at FTC’s The Warehouse.Domenic Forcella / Contributed photo The big topic is the blues community this week was the movie release of Ma Raineys “Black Bottom.” Taken from the play by August Wilson, Blues Beat remembers seeing its premiere at the Yale Rep in the 1980s. Besides the acting, a band supplied...