By the conclusion of Novak Djokovic v Rafa Nadal all you could say, really, was “John Logie Baird? Bless your cotton socks”. If it wasn’t for his box-to-box tenacity, we might have been shopping for hedge trimmers and the like yesterday morning,...

And in his own New Year message, he said 2012 would “mark a further shift in the debate on Scotland’s future as we move toward a referendum on independence in the second half of the parliament”. Salmond said Scots such as James Watt, John Logie Baird...

The Irish Times - Saturday, December 31, 2011 IN 1967, the Irish travel writer Dervla Murphy was sitting in a pub in London when a man with a strong Kerry accent asked her, “Excuse me, miss, are you Dervla Murphy?” When she reluctantly admitted her ident

But he added: “With greater powers we could do so much more.” The First Minister also said that Scotland “once again can be the land that shapes the world”. He said Scots such as John Logie Baird, Alexander Fleming and James Watt had shaped the modern...

Immersed in Strictly Come Dancing, we miss the structural changes TV has made to us. It was once estimated that the average Briton spends 11 years watching telly: even the inventor of television, John Logie Baird, wouldn't have imagined that this was...

The balloon was one of 75 released on Thursday by pupils at John Logie Baird Primary School. And they were astonished to learn on Friday that one had travelled 1,500 miles to Scandinavia. The 75 balloons represented the number of years since John Logie...