Get your hands on spiders and cockroaches

When visitors to Almond Valley go to pick up animals, they normally meet cuddly chicks, fluffy bunnies and lovely lambs – but not this month. Almond Valley’s small animal encounter sessions – and home-grown pumpkins – have been taken over this Halloween by some very creepy crawlies, where they can meet the creepy cockroaches, miserable…

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Halloween scares set to come to Dalkeith

A spook-tacular wonderland for youngsters will be created at Dalkeith Country Park to celebrate Halloween. Fort Douglas is set to be transformed into a haunted playground with plenty of ghosts, witches and pumpkins for children to discover and have fun with between Friday and Tuesday, October 27 and 31 October, writes Imogen Lovie. Children are…

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