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Nora McElhone

Feature writer with The Courier

Image shows: Musicians Bruce Foxton and Russell Hastings of From The Jam.

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From The Jam back on stage in Perth against all the odds

April 25 2025

Image shows: rock music fans at Bonfest in Kirriemuir.

Which ‘heavy metal heroes’ are heading to Kirriemuir for this year’s Bonfest?

April 25 2025

Image shows: Artist Sanna Dyker standing outside Dens Park in Dundee. She is holding her illustration of the Dundee FC stadium. Sanna is smiling at the camera, has long blonde hair and is wearing jeans, a striped Breton-style t-shirt and a chucky knit brown cardigan.

Dundee artist found love with Dens Park drawing – now she’s capturing other iconic stadiums

April 21 2025

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Logan Roberts with 'Tiny' the Shetland cross lamb. Image: Kim Cessford / DC Thomson

30 photos inside the lambing shed with the Roberts family at Loch Fitty, Dunfermline

April 19 2025

Image shows: Artist Derek Robertson on the beach at Balmerino. Derek is standing with his arm over one of his paintings on an easel. The water of the Tay is visible in the background.

5 artists you can visit in their North Fife studios this May

April 9 2025

Image shows: Volunteer Lily Thomson at The Verdant Works in Dundee. Lily is looking at the camera through a working loom in the museum. She is 85 with short grey hair and is wearing a lilac coloured jumper. She is smiling.

Dundee’s celebrated ‘mill girl’ finally steps away from the loom at 85 years young

April 7 2025

Image shows: Finbar Adamson age 11 looking perturbed by the displays of snakes in the Bell Pettigrew Museum.

Inside St Andrews’ secret museum of the weird and wonderful

April 3 2025

Image shows: An ariel image of St Andrews showing the castle in the foreground.

7 things to do in St Andrews this April

April 1 2025

An open sandwich at Hofn Dundee. A plate with an open sandwich with pastrami, topped with shaved cheese and rocket.

5 of the best lunch places in Dundee

March 31 2025

Image shows: Courier feature writer Nora McElhone enjoying brunch outside Cisco's Cafe in Stirling.

5 of the best cafes in Stirling’s vibrant city centre

March 26 2025

Murrayshall perth afternoon tea

Fancy afternoon tea? Here are the 8 best places in Perthshire to visit

March 18 2025

Image shows Scottish-based poet Ryan Van Winkle. Ryan is artistic director of StAnza, the St Andrews-based poetry festival.

Can St Andrews festival director Ryan Van Winkle rescue poetry from its ‘eat your veg’ reputation?

March 11 2025

Image shows: Illustrator Kate Benzie with one of her favourite Dundee landmarks: the penguin statues. Kate is sitting amongst the metal statues with her hand on one of the penguins. She is wearing a brown furry jacket and long denim skirt. She has blond hair with a fringe.

Which Dundee landmarks made it into artist Kate Benzie’s city painting?

March 8 2025

Author James Robertson at home in Angus. The picture is a head and shoulders shot of James who is wearing a checked shirt/jacket in browns and oranges. He is bald and has a greying beard and is wearing black-framed glasses and a wide, friendly smile.

Angus writer James Robertson on nepotism, refusing Cambridge – and why he always listens to his wife

March 8 2025

Image shows: feature writer Nora McElhone walking along the Forth Road Bridge. She is wearing dark trousers, a black jacket and beret-style hat and is looking out over the sea. The struts and wires of the bridge can be seen in the background. The sky is grey and overcast.

I walked the Forth Bridges Trail – what did I learn?

February 26 2025

Image shows: Maggie's Centre Dundee volunteer Ken Bray. Ken is sitting on a grass bank outside the Maggie's Centre building. He is resting his hands on his knees and has a warm smile. He has white hair and beard and black glasses.

Volunteer Ken ‘the Man from Maggie’s’ keeps Dundee cancer support centre ticking

February 24 2025

A selection of dainty sandwiches and pastries displayed on a cake stand with two coupes of champagne and two tea cups, which comes with afternoon tea at The Rusacks Hotel, St Andrews.

5 enticing St Andrews afternoon tea experiences

February 18 2025

Image shows: Members of the Scottish Fisheries Museum sitting in directors' chairs at Cellardyke Tidal Pool ready for the morning's sailing. The men are sitting in a row with their model boats in the water in front of them.

Model boat club: Fife’s seafaring heritage comes alive at Cellardyke Tidal Pool

February 15 2025

Image shows: Singer-songwriter and author James Yorkston.

East Neuk’s James Yorkston on the pull of home and sharing ‘glimpses into other people’s lives’

February 4 2025

Image shows: Gerard Logan in his one-man show Night Terrors. Gerard is dressed in a dark blue velvet smoking jacket with white shirt and burgandy velvet bow-tie. He is sitting in a wing-backed chair and holding a slim cigar in his right hand and a glass of red wine in his left hand.

Ready for a scare? One man show Night Terrors is coming to Perth Theatre

January 24 2025

Image shows: Scott 'Mitch' Mitchell standing on the promenade in his adopted home town of Kirckaldy. Scott is wearing a lumberjack-style shirt and smiling at the camera. He has a beard.

My Kirkcaldy: Surfer Mitch on his love for Fife’s Lang Toun

January 11 2025

Image shows: feature writer Nora McElhone with bookseller Jen Thomas in Topping & Company, St Andrews. They are seated in a corner of the bookshop surrounded by packed bookcases and with a pile of books stacked on the floor between them.

Coffee with a bookseller at Topping & Company, St Andrews

January 11 2025

Author Ajay Close pictured outside wearing scarf and green jacket.

Award-winning author Ajay Close on Perth, prizes and feeling Scottish

December 21 2024

Image shows: Travel writer Helen Moat enjoying a cup of coffee in a cafe in Broughty Ferry. Helen is sitting at a table in the window of Bowmans smiling and holding a cup in her hand. She has short white hair and glasses and is wearing a pinky coloured fleece.

What does travel writer and new girl in town Helen Moat love about Broughty Ferry

December 14 2024

Image shows: Kym and James Shields with Bru Dog, a model of a Scottie Dog with Iron Bru logos and a fabric traffic cone hat. The couple are standing near the Old Course in St Andrews with the town in the background.

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Aussie terrier lovers fly to Fife to collect Scottie ‘Bru Dog’ – but leave with much more than an iconic sculpture

December 6 2024

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