Kyle Chapman, once the leader of the National Front, will spend the weekend in custody after allegedly being at an anti-lockdown protest in Christchurch.
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QC and author Ross Macfarlane
Edward Kane and the Parlour Maid Murderer is the debut novel from Ross Macfarlane, QC, a featured author at this year s Aye Write literary festival.
Already well known to readers of the Evening News and The Scotsman, Macfarlane introduced Kane and Mr Horse in a series of short stories in the papers and reveals that the origins of his unlikely double-act lie in his love of Charles Dickens.
The Senior Advocate, who lives in the New Town, recalls, I was researching a story about the visit of Charles Dickens to Edinburgh in 1841 and discovered he had visited the Advocates Library where I was based and had dinner with his friend, Patrick Robertson, in a house just across the way from where I live. It struck me Edinburgh would be a fabulous setting for a 19th century murder mystery. Not only that, I thought it would be fun to incorporate a murder trial set in the period. I say ‘fun’, but remember, in those days, the
Partners Roddy Urquhart (Front Centre)
L-R Gillian Black,Alison Grandison, Stephen Webster, Sara Smith and Stephen Blane By Ian McConnell A SCOTTISH law firm at the end of a 145-year connection with its founding family has declared there is “absolutely no need” for it to modernise or have a shake-up, underlining a commitment to “traditional” levels of service. Urquharts has been operating in Edinburgh since 1876. The retirement of senior partner Roderick Urquhart will mark the end of its long link to the founding family, the firm noted. However, the remaining partners say there will be no dramatic changes. Roderick Urquhart s great-grandfather, Andrew Urquhart, established the firm after moving to Edinburgh from Aberdeen. He chose to study law rather than follow his father, who captained tea clippers plying their trade from China to the north-east of Scotland.