A “very rare” portrait of Robert Burns has sold for more than 160 times its estimated price of about £500. The picture, painted in the manner of Sir Henry Raeburn, fetched £84,320 (including buyer’s ...

An Idaho man suffered life-threatening third-degree burns across his upper body during a backyard bonfire gone wrong on April ...

Caroline Smith, NTS operations manager at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway, South Ayrshire, said: “This list features some of my personal favourites from our collection. “It seems ...

The final resting place of Scotland’s national bard has been targeted by vandals. Part of the Robert Burns Mausoleum in Dumfries was damaged on Tuesday afternoon. READ MORE: New blanket 20mph ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The ornately decorated fiddle belonged to the dance master who taught Robert Burns. At Carnegie, it will cap “Scotland’s Hoolie in New York.” Duncan Chisholm with the ...

Police have launched an investigation after the final resting place of Robert Burns in Dumfries was damaged. Scotland's national poet is buried in a mausoleum in the grounds of St Michael's Church ...

Scotland's national poet is buried in a mausoleum in the graveyard of St Michael's Church on St Michael's Street.

Burns began a correspondence with Agnes McElhose, also known as Clarinda and Nancy, a married woman he was besotted with. When she left Scotland to reunite with her husband he wrote Ae Fond Kiss as a ...