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Faces of Edinburgh: We find out what people love about the Scottish capital

‘This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again,’ Alexander...
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Life With a horologist: ‘In watchmaking you can’t cut corners or learn things overnight, it takes time’

Laings watchmaker Annika Leppala on following in her grandfather's footsteps as a horologist, learning the art of patience in a world full of immediacy and...
Melissa Curran helps care for Pollok Country Park's herd of 73 Highland Cows.

Life With Pollok Country Park: ‘I have the joy of working with one of the best known cattle breeds in the world’

Fourteen years ago Melissa Curran was a city girl who had never been around cattle. Now, an assistant livestock supervisor, she helps care for Pollok...
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Photo Essay: Dundee’s heritage and nature

Dundee Heritage Trust will host the latest International Garden Photographer of the Year exhibition, at Verdant Works Museum this year. Alongside IGPOTY Exhibition 17, images...
Cal Major has travelled 800 miles around Scotland’s wild coast on a paddleboard.

Life With Cal Major: ‘I look forward to the day I look out my window in the Highlands and see dolphins and whales’

Adventurer, vet and ocean advocate Cal Major has travelled 800 miles around Scotland’s wild coast on a paddleboard. Along the way, she made shocking discoveries,...
Culloden, Inverness. Credit: National Trust for Scotland

Culloden Battlefield: Clan Chief’s shoe buckle among new discoveries

Archaeologists have unearthed fascinating new artefacts from the Culloden Battlefield - including a clan chief's shoe buckle. Researchers working around a 60 square-metre area close...

Outlander author in book festival line-up

OUTLANDER author Diana Gabaldon is among the writers who will appear at this summer's Edinburgh International Book Festival. Gabaldon returns to the festival for the...

Langholm Moor buyout gets £1m ‘major game-changer’

THE Langholm Moor buyout has received a £1 million donation from the Scottish Land Fund. The sum was described as a "major game-changer" for the...

McIlvanney Prize 2022 longlist revealed

THE longlist for the McIlvanney Prize 2022 has been unveiled to mark book festival Bloody Scotland's 10th anniversary. Ten books are competing for the £1,000...

River Clyde boom aims to net litter

PLASTIC and litter will be stopped from entering the sea thanks to a new River Clyde boom. Plans for the boom were announced this morning...

Eriskay Pony Society launches biggest ever DNA project

THE Eriskay Pony Society is working with genetics experts at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and the Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST) to carry out the...

Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel comes to Braehead

SHOPPERS at Braehead will soon have the chance to see Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. Full-scale photographs of the chapel's ceiling will go on display at the...