Edwyn Collins moving back to Scotland

Rocker Edwyn Collins is leaving London and moving back to his native Scotland The former Orange Juice frontman is originally from Edinburgh but moved to the British capital after the band split in the 1980s.
Collins has made a good recovery after suffering from two strokes which left him paralysed and unable to speak in 2005, but his wife Grace Maxwell believes getting out of London will do him good.
She tells Britain’s Observer magazine, “(I am) happy to admit the permanent move has been driven by me. Because it’s beautiful (in Scotland) and I’m from industrial Lanarkshire (in Scotland). And I’m now 56, and I resent that we have that place (Scotland), are part of that place now and we’re not there. I never feel the other way round. And these years since (Collins’) stroke have been nothing but adventure, really: breakthroughs, new things, so many firsts but it’s pummelled me a wee (little) bit.”