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In 1999, Lyon & Turnbull was acquired by a group of auctioneers who had left Phillips, an auction house which was the third largest in the world during the 1990s.They were joined in the enterprise by Sir Angus Grossart, Chairman of Noble Grossart, a Scottish merchant bank, and a past chairman of the trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland.
Scottish edition of UK newspaper: Tabloid: 21,661 Sun on Sunday: UK – Popular: UK newspaper widely available in Scotland: Tabloid: 142,272 Daily Star Sunday: UK – Popular: UK newspaper widely available in Scotland: Tabloid: 19,299 Scottish Sunday Mirror: UK – Popular: Scottish edition of UK newspaper: Tabloid: 7,523 The Sunday People
British and Irish country house contents auctions are usually held on site at the country house, and have been used to raise funds for their owners, usually before selling the house and estate. Such auctions include the sale of high quality antique paintings , furniture , objets d'art , tapestries , books , and other household items.
After the abolition of newspaper stamp tax in Scotland in 1855, The Scotsman was relaunched as a daily newspaper priced at 1d and a circulation of 6,000 copies. The fledgling paper was originally based at 257 High Street on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. [10] Until 1860 the Scotsman shared a building with the Caledonian Mercury newspaper. [11]
The Journal was an independent, fortnightly, local newspaper originally produced by students at seven major higher and further education institutes in Edinburgh. It was distributed at a number of locations across the city's universities and colleges, as well as at bars and cafés throughout the Scottish capital.
The main local newspaper is the Edinburgh Evening News. It is owned and published alongside its sister titles The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday by JPIMedia. [205] Student newspapers include, The Journal Scotland wide Universities, and The Student University of Edinburgh which was founded in 1887.
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Bruntsfield House in 1897 Bruntsfield House in 2009. J.Stewart-Smith states that "Bruntsfield Manor", or as it is known today, Bruntsfield House, had been the dower house of each successive bride of the Lauders of Haltoun for 226 years. Sir William Lauder of Haltoun (d.