OUR rivers are natural features of wonder and beauty, yet their condition is declining. Centuries of deforestation and soaring temperatures have left many riverbanks without the woodland cover that keeps water temperatures cool.
A RARE collection of Highland music is set to grace the stage at the Blas Festival this September – and it’s thought to be the oldest-ever selection of unpublished tunes,
A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND business has been launched to guide organisations through the carbon-offsetting journey, from identifying sites to growing trees and navigating the rapidly emerging carbon-neutrality market.
SCOTTISH actor and independence supporter Martin Compston has let it be known that he wants to play James Connolly in a biopic Irvine Welsh is considering making about the life of the Scottish-born and Irish-based socialist republican revolutionary. Meanwhile RMT rail union leader Mick Lynch has called Connolly his political inspiration.
A SCOTTISH designer and manufacturer of musical accessories is looking to repeat the global success of its first product launch in 2021 with two new innovations, after agreeing a £250,000 funding deal with the Reward Finance Group (RFG).
THERE is a huge appetite among Scottish young people to work in rewilding, according to a charity.
"LOOK at that, it says it’s an electric campervan.” The portable kettle boils on the electric hob as a group of hikers ambles past, pausing to take note of our conspicuous vehicle as I potter about inside. The lay-by of the Three Sisters viewpoint in Glencoe is teeming, and our novel ride catches the attention of many.
NAVIGATING the asylum process is not easy.
THE Pittsburgh Press newspaper told baffled American readers in July 1902 that the eccentric electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla had built a “large power house” at Wardenclyffe (Long Island), and was busy creating other strange towers across the USA. His “World Telegraphy” system, Tesla told journalists, was designed to work with at least one other overseas tower in Scotland.
AS more people wake up
