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'The group of seven artists who differ in age, experience and artistic practice have produced a powerful and diverse body of work' SEVEN artists spanning seven generations have created artworks inspired by life under lockdown as part of a new exhibition and film project. They include 16-year-old Jodie Campbell who painted her grandmother and neighbours, capturing through her portraits the lives of those she painted and how they dealt with lockdown. Life Under Lockdown will be touring across hospitals in Edinburgh and Lothian, starting at the Western General where patients and staff will...

A YOUNG dad who was diagnosed with bowel cancer on Father’s Day has vowed to keep fighting. John McCallum and wife Lorna Forsyth are looking to raise more than £200,000, which would see him fly to Germany for a liver transplant. Already, more than £30,000 has been raised to help fund the trip, which had left the father-of-two “gobsmacked”. He said: “For both myself and Lorna, we are both quite proud and don’t want to go cap in hand but we are both determined and fighters, and this has to be done. “The amount of times we have had bad news from the oncologist – what do...

BBC News By Lisa Summers He had just travelled back from Italy after watching Scotland play in the Six Nations rugby. The 51-year-old from Tayside had what we now know to be classic Covid symptoms of a fever and cough and contacted NHS 24 for advice. Soon he was being rushed to the infectious diseases unit at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital. For the medics who helped him, this was "patient zero" of the ongoing battle against Covid. "Because it was unknown, and we didn't know the transmissibility, we were just a bit unsure of how we would deal with it - it was quite daunting," paramedi...

This is how Anlaby Road used to look - and you might be surprised at how much it's changed Take a look back in time with our video and pictures Updated The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Sign up to the Hull Live newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your rig...

Building study: Loader Monteith restores Peter Womersley’s High Sunderland The Glasgow-based practice, working with a team of conservation specialists, has restored this 1957 Modernist house with meticulous detail 23 February 2021 By Alan Dunlop. Photography by Gillian Hayes comment and share In 1955, Bernat and Margaret Klein knocked on the door of a house ‘floating above the trees’ near their home in West Yorkshire and asked for the name of the architect. The house was Farnley Hey, designed by Peter Womersley for his brother, John. Advertisement Farnley Hey’s floor-to-ce...