NEWS

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...
Annika 2

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...

web-New-Dumbarton-Office-1-300x212

Special event to mark £15.4million restoration of A-listed building

A project to preserve one of West Dunbartonshire’s oldest buildings will be the subject of a special event next week. The A-listed façade of the...
web-Clare-Campbell-Design-Desk-269x300

Company bids to bring tartan weaving back to the Scottish Highlands

A kickstarter campaign looking to raise £500,000 for a new tartan weaving enterprise is taking shape on the Black Isle, just north of Inverness. 'Build...
Web-Mod-1-300x241

Lochaber is all ready to welcome the Royal National Mòd

The Royal National Mòd returns to Lochaber next week for what’s set to be a record-breaking year for the festival. Running from Friday, October 13...

Isle of Lewis war memorial restoration is completed

Restoration works to the Isle of Lewis' war memorial have been completed. Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council) was successful in securing a substantial...
web-Belgian-group-at-the-New-Club-300x225

Royal Celtic Society members set to receive new Coat of Arms

The annual general meeting of the Royal Celtic Society is taking place in Edinburgh this Friday. For nearly 200 years, the Royal Celtic Society has...
web-Union-Chain-Bridge2-300x200

Views wanted on historic bridge between Scotland and England

Members of the public are being invited to give their views on the Union Chain Bridge in the Borders as part of ambitious plans to...