Walking with Poets to celebrate 175th birthday of Scotland’s pioneering ecologist

John Muir, himself an author – who used his nature writing as part of groundbreaking campaigns to protect Continue reading

Exercise Joint Warrior 131 in operation

The first of the two annual multi-national combined military exercises known as ‘Joint Warrior’ Continue reading

Scottish Water raises £10,000 on World Water Day

Scottish Water shark dive

Scottish Water has raised £10,000 for the charity WaterAid following a massive fundraising push by employees on World Water Day Continue reading

Cowal, Wester Ross, Moray and Borders celebrate first Scottish Land Fund Awards

Launched in 2012, the £6 million Scottish Land Fund is funded by the Scottish Government Continue reading

Dorothy Bruce play in Borders Banter

See them rats

With the 2012 Cowalfest  – Cowal’s unique festival linking walking and the arts – opening yesterday Continue reading

Death of last Laird of Coll

Charles Kenneth Moncrieff Stewart, 7th and last Laird of Coll died 18 08 2012

Sadly, Charles Kenneth Moncrieff Stewart, the last Laird of Coll, passed away yesterday morning  – Continue reading

£7 million public money for Brave film – and a map that takes Argyll and the Isles out of Scotland

You really couldn’t make this up – and yet again this failure calls into question Continue reading