This is a mock epitaph for William Muir (1745-1793), a miller in Tarbolton who proved to be a good friend to the Burnes family. When Jean Armour was thrown out by her family in March 1788 it was ...

A woman from Tarbolton who lost her son to a brain tumour says a new research centre focused on finding a cure for the disease is ...

A grateful nation thinks more highly of the Langholm writer than Burns did of the Tarbolton laird! In fact, as with many of the Bard's epitaphs, this was wishful thinking, a poetic pin stuck in a ...