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It is not exactly clear whether Scotlands alcohol deaths are going up, down, or levelling off. The latest data, for 2022, reveal a 2 year-on-year…

The story behind which orange came first involves Arab trade routes and a bunch of old phrases that mean 'orange apple.'

Three people from the university have been recognised for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Honours list this year.

THE Covid death rate in Scotland among the double-vaccinated is now 25 times higher than the triple-jabbed, amid waning immunity in the frail…

Although Virgil's Aeneid was one of the most widely admired works of the European Middle Ages, the first complete translation to appear in any form of Englis...

The OED is the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English.

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© Steve Brown / DCT Media Professor Rhiannon Purdie from St Andrews University is to write the first history of medieval Scots literature. Sign up for our daily newsletter of the top stories in Courier country Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A university professor from Fife is to write the first full-length history of medieval Scots literature as it developed in the then-independent kingdom of Scotland more ...