Posts by Grant Dickie
Chicken wings its way to charities
Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) has donated 1.4 tonnes of chicken to Scottish food banks, school breakfast clubs and homeless shelters. The meat, which included 600kg of whole chicken, 250kg of chicken legs and 615kg of chicken breasts, was donated by SRUC from its carcass evaluation unit on the Auchincruive Estate in South Ayrshire. The chicken…
Read MoreShots of the day
Remember the great outdoors? We do, and so do the North Highland Initiative, who have unveiled their ‘Highland Time’ campaign, which is a virtual tour of the North Highlands to enjoy from the comfort of your home.
Read MoreBlue bottle to raise £10,000 for NHS
Craft distillers Eden Mill have launched a limited-edition blue ceramic bottle of their award-winning Original Gin to show their support and raise valuable funds for the NHS, with the St Andrews-based distillers saying that it will raise £10,000. A total of 5,000 bottles have been created, with £2 from each £30 bottle donated to frontline…
Read MoreHaunting memories of Culloden
To mark the 274th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden on Thursday 16 April, the National Trust for Scotland has shared rare snippets of haunting Gaelic songs inspired by the Jacobite cause online. The original audio recordings are of a series of Gaelic songs collected by noted Gaelic archivist John Lorne Campbell from Canna. The…
Read MorePicture perfect
Fife photographer Caroline Trotter, from Upper Largo, has won eight awards – 5 merits, 1 excellence, one category winner in the Open award, and one for the Family Portrait category – in the Master Photographers Association awards for 2020. The first of her two winning images was a wildlife photograph taken on the historic island…
Read MoreGamekeepers sculpt heather message for ambulance crews
Gamekeepers on Greenlaw Moor in the Scottish Borders have demonstrated their solidarity with health workers after counting the ambulances passing them on the Duns road. Head Gamekeeper Jamie Goodall and Tom Wilson realised how much busier the road adjacent to their ground had become with emergency vehicles during the Covid-19 crisis. Whilst carrying out agreed…
Read MoreFood for Good
Heartwarming news of another Scottish business supporting those in need. Edinburgh restaurant The Gardener’s Cottage are supplying low income families in the capital with much needed meals. Ingredients, including those grown in the grounds of the cottage, are now helping those at greatest risk from the outbreak through the Food for Good Coalition, a newly…
Read MoreHarbinger of spring arrives at St Abb’s Head
The National Trust for Scotland has welcomed the first female wheatears at St Abb’s Head Nature Reserve in Eyemouth. Often known as a harbinger of spring, the wheatear has the longest migration of any small bird in the world with a return journey of 18,640 miles from sub-Saharan Africa. Male birds will typically arrive in…
Read MoreUrgent Appeal for PPE Donations
MedSupplyDriveUK Scotland, a volunteer group of NHS doctors, medical students and allies, are urgently appealing for personal protective equipment (PPE) to be donated directly to local healthcare facilities in order to protect frontline NHS staff and their patients, plus those in GP hubs and care homes. In particular are looking for the following: Alpha Solway…
Read MoreThe Battle of Prestonpans
Children aged between 10 and 17 are being invited to take part in a brand new project to mark the 275th anniversary of the Battle of Prestonpans, one of the most significant battles in Scottish history. Entries which commemorate the battle – which can be in prose, poetry or art and design – should be…
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