On Sunday 30 November, St Salvator’s Chapel transformed into a live broadcast studio for two nationwide BBC radio programmes — Sunday Worship  on BBC Radio 4 and Carols Across the Country on BBC Radio 3.  The dual recordings in the medieval Chapel — dating back to 1413 — marked both St Andrew’s Day and the beginning of Advent, drawing together students, staff, and leading figures from across Scotland’s artistic and academic communities. The morning recording began early, with doors opened to...

Cromars Classic Fish & Chips has won Best Menu at the Scottish Fish & Chip Awards 2025. The Market Street eatery, founded in 2013, had been shortlisted  in three categories and also earned a Highly Recommended accolade for Best Fish Supper (East) — one of only three venues to do so. The team previously took home the regional Best Fish Supper (East) title in 2023. Cromars hit international headlines in October when popstar Justin Bieber took to social media after ordering from the shop during...

For the twentieth anniversary of singer-songwriter Kate Victoria ‘KT’ Tunstall’s debut album Eye to the Telescope , the artist filmed a music video featuring the University of St Andrews Observatory. The Fife-born artist, raised in St Andrews and famed for her 2004 hit ‘Suddenly I See’ (used in the opening credits of The Devil Wears Prada  in 2006), returned in June to film inside the Gregory Dome and give an intimate concert for a select group of fans. St Andrews Observatory Director...