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He has been the worlds best loved fictional detective for almost 120 years. But the author behind Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - secretly despised his famous creation.

As we all know, the Isle of Wight’s not a bad place really. Having said that, not everyone likes it and plenty of people made their feelings known…

Last modified on Mon 3 May 2021 01.32 EDT Glasgow is haunted by itself. Unlike Edinburgh, whose every steeple and gable makes the past feel part of the present, Glasgow is its own ghost. In this city, which looks much more new than the capital, history is glimpsed from the corner of the eye; it is a shiver on a late-autumn night as darkness falls on Duke Street and the brewery smell fills the air. Glaswegians are chronic nostalgists. We have a pretty straightforward relationship with the past: ...

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