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By Malcolm Macdonald on January 22, 2021 Preston Brooks entered the United States Senate chamber with a gutta percha walking cane in hand. The cane stood approximately waist high next to the thirty-six-year-old South Carolinian. The head of the cane was topped with a gold knob. Alongside Brooks were Laurence Keitt, a fellow South Carolinian, and Henry Edmundson. Keitt possessed a pistol. They waited for the gallery to clear that afternoon. The three had decided beforehand that no ladies be present. The Senate was not in session, but some of the senators worked at their desks. When the gallery...

Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall, However,  rest assured that access to all Covid related news will still remain free. To access all other news will require a subscription, as it did pre-pandemic. The good news is tha...

Celtic Connections is going online a week today - for a 19 day festival By Louise Glen  |  Updated: 10:19, 08 January 2021 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper The Celtic Connections online festival will begin one week today. Across 19 days, the festival will present over 30 online performances between Friday January 15 and Tuesday February 2 2021. St Lukes. Picture: Gaelle Beri World class concerts will be available to view online with some of the biggest names on the Scottish music scene and beyond appearing o...

Submitting... The Traverse, which was originally launched in a former brothel off the Royal Mile, would go on to provide the launchpad for the careers of Robbie Coltrane, Billy Connolly, John Byrne, Simon Callow, Tilda Swinton, Steven Berkoff and Bill Paterson.After relocating to London in 1966, Haynes set up his own cultural centre, Art Lab, on Drury Lane, where David Bowie, Andy Warhol, John Lennon and Yoko Ono all staged work. Born in Louisiana, Haynes first came to Edinburgh while he was was serving in the US military, stationed at Kirknewton. He attended his first festival season in 1957...

Ruth Nicol’s landscape paintings are among the most distinctive in contemporary art. In the last of his series on the Junor Gallery, Alan Riach talks to the artist about her work and exhibitions. Alan Riach: Ruth, we’ve worked happily together for some years now on the “Landmarks” exhibition with Sandy Moffat and your association with Sandy goes back further. Could you tell us first how you came to painting originally? Ruth Nicol: I was a late starter. I decided to go to evening classes at Edinburgh College of Art, and it was there that the very talented George Donald told me the es...