TRAINSPOTTING is one of the most iconic Scottish films to date. But despite that, the films stars can still get starstruck as Robert Caryle, who played Francis Begbie in the film, found out. “Me and ...

Trainspotting actor Robert Carlyle has said he believes he was hacked in the 1990s but only pieced it together years later after the phone-hacking scandal broke. Carlyle, 64, stars in new seven-part ...

You could always find us on the end of the platform, sitting on a porter's iron-wheeled goods barrow. With a biro and notebook in one hand and a bottle of pop in the other, we looked expectantly down ...

Irvine Welsh has told of his horror at re-reading Trainspotting to make sure its new sequel was accurate and admitted fans will still catch him out. Welsh, 66, found fame in 1993 thanks to his novel ...

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Ewan McGregor channels Trainspotting character as he braves the shave for cancer charity - Child shot and killed while playing ‘ding dong ditch’ Ukraine uses new Flamingo missile for first time: ...

At the start of Men in Love, we meet Edward Allister Reece, a seedy, world-weary sailor and mentor figure who bears a striking resemblance to Samuel Beckett. He sets the tone with a blunt dichotomy: ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Having already written a prequel and several sequels to his scabrous 1993 debut, Irvine Welsh has returned once ...