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North-east charity raises nearly £40,000 for life-saving service

© Supplied by Sandpiper Trust Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A north-east charity dedicated to providing rapid medical care in rural areas across the country, has raised nearly £40,000 in support of their vital service. The Sandpiper Trust secured the funds to purchase life-saving equipment for their volunteers, following a week-long online auction at the beginning of December. Celebrating the very best of Scotland, the auction included a design your own tweed or tartan experience, a woodturning course at Chippendale School of Furniture, a signed Scotland 6 Nations rugby shirt and many more.

Gagosian presents an exhibition of new works by Edmund de Waal

Gagosian presents an exhibition of new works by Edmund de Waal Installation view of Edmund de Waal: some winter pots, 2020 © Edmund de Waal. Prudence Cummings Associates. Courtesy Gagosian. LONDON .-Gagosian is presenting an exhibition of new works by artist and author Edmund de Waal, made during lockdown earlier this year. This is the first time in sixteen years that de Waal has made single works that are not parts of installations. They are specifically designed to be touched and held in the hand. De Waal comments, “I made these pots in lockdown during the spring and early summer. I was alone in my studio and silent and I needed to make vessels to touch and hold, to pass on. I needed to return to what I know—the bowl, the open dish, the lidded jar. When you pick them up you will find the places where I have marked and moved the soft clay. Some of these pots are broken and patched on their rims with folded lead and gold; others are mended with gold lacquer. Some hold shar

Final destination: Cabinet papers reveal alternate locations for Stone of Destiny

© PA Sign up for our daily Politics briefing for political exclusives, analysis and debate. Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Next summer will mark the 25th anniversary of the return of the ancient Stone of Destiny to Edinburgh Castle, but that wasn’t always intended to be the stone’s final destination. In newly released Cabinet papers from 1996, it has emerged that several other locations were seriously considered as a home for the stone. Documents, published by the National Archives, show that Stirling Castle, Arbroath Abbey, Dunfermline Abbey and the National Museum of Scotland were all in the running.

New director signals major rethink for National Museum to retell the story of Scotland s past and future

Submitting. Professor Christopher Breward was appointed the new director of National Museums Scotland just over a year ago. However he also revealed that the attraction was likely to move away from staging major touring exhibitions in future, admitting that museums around the world were already debating the “real cost” of such shows before the Covid-19 outbreak, which closed down the museum for five months in 2020, due to their carbon footprint. Professor Breward, a former principal of Edinburgh College of Art, said there had been a “deliberate choice” to focus on largely Scottish content in his exhibitions programme in 2021, which will focus on the Galloway Hoard, the Viking-age treasures acquired by the museum three years ago following their discovery by a metal detectorist in Dumfries and Galloway, the writer Sir Walter Scott and Scotland’s response to the climate emergency.

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