Stevie Gallacher

For a few days a year, Barbados celebrates its Celtic heritage, which is richer than its most famous invention: golden, oak-cask rum.

Ghosthunter, an interactive show where audiences become paranormal investigators in a haunted house, has begun its run in Glasgow.

Sophie McShera tried to build her character in 18th Century period drama The Gallows Pole from the boots (or clogs in this case) up.

Lionel “Buster” Crabb was one of Britain’s many famous Second World War heroes: a famous Royal Navy diver and highly decorated war hero.

Rather wonderfully it is also the name given to the time after dinner, so important to the people of Barcelona.

.A new stage production of Peaky Blinders is taking the iconic tunes featured in the series and combining it with ballet.

Reasonable, friendly, mullet-cut and cheerily enthusiastic about The Beatles, the TV version of Glen Matlock seemed to fit into the Sex Pistols like Jonnny Rotten would fit in at the vicarage.

American diplomat George Ball once said nostalgia was a seductive liar. He made a fair point. It’s easy to look at the past and think things were great and the old ways were best because they feel good to think about.

It starts with 16 seconds of incendiary rhetoric from civil rights attorney Thomas “TNT” Todd... and then it gets serious.

We’ve just passed the shortest day of the year – Wednesday, to be precise – but there’s still a long way to go before the weather starts warming up and the days become a little brighter.

The skies may be blue, the sand of the beaches lining the Promenade of Pablo Ruiz Picasso warm to the touch, the palm trees barely troubled by the Levant breeze, but this corner of southern Spain is second only to Lapland when it comes to Christmas buzz.

Following his 27-year imprisonment, Nelson Mandela was, in 1994, poised to become the leader of a post-Apartheid South Africa.

Deep in the Taurus mountain range of Eastern Turkey, one peak towers over its neighbours. This is Mount Nemrut: holy tomb of one of history’s most notable kings, rocky wonder climbing 7,000ft above the ancient lands of Anatolia, and, more lately, tourist trap.

It has become a classic, one of the most evocative, popular Scottish folk songs, but 200 years after being written, The Rowan Tree is moving film fans to tears in one of the movies of the year.

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper says it’s still hard to talk about the loss of Scots nanny May McLinden, who helped him through a difficult childhood.

“What, I can’t talk about class because I drink cappuccino?” says Darren McGarvey. “I’m just back from my holidays in Spain and there seemed to be a lot of working class people drinking nice coffee.”

On stage in Cardiff on Friday night, as the Happy Mondays started playing Kinky Afro, the band’s frontman Shaun Ryder began to grieve for his brother Paul.

Standing among the vaulted arches and lengthening shadows of New York’s spectacular Grand Central Station left broadcaster Clive Anderson struck with wonder.

With a slew of Oscar nominations last week, a slate of exciting TV shows to come and more than eight million new subscribers signing up, the mood at streaming giant Netflix should be akin to that of a celebratory Bridgerton soiree.

Alasdair Gray’s final work was to reinterpret Dante’s Divine Trilogy; now Hell, Purgatory and Paradise have been collected together ahead of a celebration of his life.