Cumbernauld is not alone. Across Scotland, the utopian New Towns built after the Second World War are in the throes of an existential crisis. They were shaped around commuting and consumption, but the ...

Rather than demolishing Cumbernauld's brutalist town centre, we should learn from Patrick Geddes and employ radical surgery to give the megastructure a new lease of life, writes Rory Olcayto. If ...

Cumbernauld Theatre has launched a campaign to reverse Creative Scotland’s “unfair” decision to remove the venue from its portfolio of regularly funded organisations. The venue has warned that the cut ...

IT may be one of the country's newest towns - created in the 1950s - but a new poll suggests many residents are old hat at committing adultery. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman ...

Historic Environment Scotland has said it will not list a Brutalist shopping centre in the new town of Cumbernauld – as plans to knock it down are ‘too far advanced’ The Scottish heritage body ...

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Sam Heughan, Elaine C Smith, Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson, Blythe Duff and Colin McCredie were among the backers of the campaign to save the venue.

RESIDENTS in Scotland’s “ugliest” town say it’s a wonderful place to live and a magnet for fans of hit TV series Outlander. Five metrics, including shop fronts, historical architecture, traffic, ...

The shopping centre in a Scottish new town has been voted Britain's most hated building in a TV poll. Cumbernauld's centre secured the title in a Channel 4 poll, involving 10,000 people, to find the ...