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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,...
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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...

How Granny’s copper coin inspired flower innovation

IT'S a Granny's trick passed down from generation to generation - and used by plenty of church flower arrangers too: stick a copper penny in...

Jump Ship steams ahead with alcohol-free brewery plan

JUMP SHIP has smashed through its fundraising target ahead of its crowdfunding scheme closing tomorrow. The beer brand now plans to build an alcohol-free brewery...

Highland hotel software goes worldwide

SOFTWARE created by two Highland hotel owners is spreading its wings overseas. Hoteliers Richard Drummond and Jon Erasmus and software developer Ronald Tweedie came up...
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Schools news: international women’s day and more

Peter Ranscombe rounds-up the latest news from Scotland's schools on International Women's Day. THE High School of Glasgow has been given a shirt by Maryam...

Edinburgh International Film Festival will return

A SLIMMED-DOWN version of the Edinburgh International Film Festival will return this August. The future of the festival was thrown into question last October when...

Scotland’s Golden Shears team unveiled

SCOTLAND'S Golden Shears Sheep Shearing and Woolhandling World Championships team has been named. The squad will represent our nation during the contest, which will be...