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Credit: Rachel Bolton.

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...
Credit: Dundee Heritage Trust

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...

Repair work got underway this week at the Auld Kirk in Selkirk

Repair work gets underway at church where William Wallace became Guardian of Scotland

Work on a historic Scots building has got underway this week to enable it to reopen to the public. The Auld Kirk ruin in Selkirk...
The Macallan cask sold for £242,000

1989 cask of The Macallan sells for just under quarter of a million pounds

A cask of Scotch whisky was sold for almost quarter of a million pounds at auction last week. The barrel of Macallan 1989 went under...
Father Ted and Father Dougal in the new mural

Painting the town Ted with new mural in Edinburgh Irish bar

Cult 90s classic comedy Father Ted is being celebrated on the walls of a new pub in Edinburgh. Revellers are now able to ‘paint the...
James Martin at Taste of Grampian 2017

Taste of Grampian reveal special ingredient to draw the crowds

TV chef James Martin is returning to Taste of Grampian this summer. Taste of Grampian Chairman John Gregor revealed the news, ahead of the 19th...
Barry Van Dusen's painting, Sanderlings

Feathered friends feature in new exhibition of artistic work

An exhibition of work by the Society of Wildlife Artists opens this weekend. The SWLA has chosen the Donald Watson Gallery at Waterson House, the...
Chef Nico Simeone

Edinburgh prepares to be served up a new dining concept by Nico Simeone

Renowned Scottish-Italian chef, Nico Simeone, is set to introduce his latest dining concept to Edinburgh. This April, he will open Six by Nico on Hanover...