Scotland

Proper Scottish shortbread only needs butter, sugar and flour. Here's how to make it buttery and crumbly for under £2 a batch, plus a few festive twists and how to give it as a Christmas gift.

Coorie is the old Scots word for snuggling in, and it's how people here have always got through long, dark winters. Here are nine simple ways to coorie at home, most of which cost next to nothing.

Burns wrote in Scots, so half the time we quote him without quite knowing what he meant. Here are 20 Robert Burns quotes for Burns Night, with what they actually mean in plain English.

Scotland banned Christmas in 1640 and didn't make it a public holiday again until 1958. Which goes a long way to explaining Hogmanay. Here are ten of the traditions — first footing, steak pie, saining and the rest — and where they actually come from.