Seeing the pictures of the collapsed half-finished Kolkata overpass took me back very vividly to some time I spent there in a small hotel just by that very roundabout. I’ve walked along that roa...
The online journal Grist published an article by Bren Smith in February in which he describes how he has come to develop “Vertical underwater farming”, an idea that just might be of great importan...
Many of us on Arran are already very careful not to waste food and us folk at Eco Savvy are as keen as the next person to get our full value out of every penny spent in the Co-op, or every hour sowing...
Across 1 Lo, I tune purification (7) 5 Salute 1000 crazy otter (7) 9 Lovelace’s coding? (3) 10 Submarine fork? (7) 11 Express no tree (5) 12 Colou...
Selected by David Underdown, who also writes the commentary. Instrument by Greta Stoddart All this wind and rain could so easily go without saying (and it does, we know it does as could, as ever, bird...
Many folk on Arran regularly fly to holiday destinations abroad, and some fly to and from other parts of the UK for business or to visit family. The SNP government wants to halve Air Passenger Duty an...
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson. £7.99 Kate Atkinson, one of our most inventive and emotionally poised novelists, writes with humour and sometimes near-unbearable poignancy about Teddy Todd, a young ...
The Falkirk Wheel is set for a mini revolution as a £1million programme to revamp and develop new visitor experiences at the world’s only rotating boat lift gets underway. The project will see the ...
Extreme weather caused by global warming could lead to more violent and more frequent storms devastating beaches on exposed Atlantic coastlines in Europe. The Atlantic seas could be getting rougher, w...