When he was 13 years old, J.M. Barrie entered the Dumfries Academy in Scotland, where he became fast friends with a pair of brothers named Stuart and Hal Gordon. In the garden of the Gordon family ...

Joanna Lumley is a patron of the Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust Absolutely Fabulous star Joanna Lumley has joined celebrations being held ahead of the reopening of a house which helped inspire the Peter ...

Council officials have admitted the revised costs put forward by the main contractor are “beyond the affordability cap in place for the project” Plans for a multi-million pound upgrade of Dumfries ...

MSP Colin Smyth claims parents, pupils and teachers have been “betrayed” by the Scottish Government over the schools cash snub. He hit out after the local authority’s bid for funding for Dumfries ...

Details of a revised bid to overhaul schools in southern Scotland have started to emerge. It comes after Dumfries and Galloway Council revealed that its original plans would require annual savings of ...

A CLOSING date has been set for potential bidders of a historic house linked to JM Barrie's inspiration for Peter Pan. The centre for children's literature in Dumfries, Moat Brae, will close to ...