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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...

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Rottal Lodge wins at The Purdey Awards

ROTTAL Lodge in Glen Clova has won a prize at The Purdey Awards. The Angus site took the bronze award "for the demonstrable conservation efforts...

Macallan names artisan apprentice firms

WHISKY maker The Macallan is helping four craft businesses to hire apprentices. The distiller is giving the companies grants from its £260,000 artisan apprenticeship fund....

Set sail with March’s issue of Scottish Field…

DON'T miss the latest issue of Scottish Field magazine, which is on sale now, both in shops and online. Inside our March issue, Soldier, Soldier...
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Whisky news round-up: Skincare and more

Peter Ranscombe raises another irreverent glass to all the latest whisky news from Scotland. THE Scotch Malt Whisky Society has nearly notched up 40,000 members...

HMS Unicorn gets biggest donation

THE Headley Trust has donated £100,000 towards the restoration of HMS Unicorn, Scotland's oldest ship. The donor - which is one of the "Sainsbury Family...
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Schools news round-up: Space, tennis and more

Peter Ranscombe rounds-up the latest news from Scotland's schools. PUPILS from The High School of Glasgow met former astronaut Anousheh Ansari at the Glasgow Science...