A poem by Campbell Laing Scotland, our country, of which we are proud, But for far too long we have lived under a cloud In 1707 our Lords and Nobles decreed To be part of Westminster was our very need...
Experts on both sides of the pond are getting excited about the prospects for Scotland, for various reasons. Jim McCluskey, author of The Nuclear Threat, is of course horrified by the Westminster gove...
Salmon are carnivorous. In the wild, they will eat any small living thing they can find. In pens, they are fed on frequent scatterings of fishmeal pellets, delivered automatically. These pellets are m...
Video History Scotland has a catalogue of more than 40 titles on DVD. They are the work of Colin M. Liddell, who devoted a lifetime to capturing, collecting and preserving some of the most rare film f...
On Sunday 11th May, a group of members and friends of Arran Civic Trust enjoyed a most interesting visit to the new village of Knockroon, which is a development on the Dumfries House Estate near Cumno...
Linda Hartley writes with relief about a good outcome for two bereft pets I have good news! Patch and Tiggy, the two cats whose owner died and left them homeless, have at last been rescued. But it too...
On Friday 6th June UNISON are holding a public debate on the question ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?’ It will start at 7.30pm and is in the Community Theatre at Arran High Sch...
Foolishly, Australia had never been on my “must go” list but when our son, Fraser, moved there Stuart and I wanted to see him after an 18 month separation so Australia it was. I say &lsquo...