This year’s Folk Festival will run from 9th to 11th June. In addition to the now familiar sessions and concerts, this year there will be a fiddle workshop with Gráinne Brady on Saturday 1...
The film on 11th June is The Long Good Friday (1980, UK, directed by John Mackenzie, 114 mins, Cert 18). In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) has big plans to get the Ameri...
From John Kinsman Scientists have found that wild seals given a dose of oxytocin, nicknamed the love hormone, become more sociable and less aggressive. A study of grey seal pups on the isle of May off...
Jean Strachan recently wrote about how the numbers attending the Elderly Forum are dwindling: The Elderly Forum has been going for 10 years, maybe it has run its circle. It is non political non religi...
Between Us by Cicely Gill You lend me a book, you give me part of yourself. It’s not just the print and the paper but your ‘I liked this — I loved the way — especially the begi...
Our news media rarely gives adequate coverage to what goes on elsewhere in the world. New Internationalist magazine recently reported on the awful abuses happening in West Papua, and we thought Voice ...
More than 1,200 climate laws have been introduced since 1997, with a sharp rise in the number of countries legislating since the 2015 Paris Agreement, writes Alex Kirby of the Climate News Network. A ...
With Heather Gough I hope the wild garlic is not over by the time you read this recipe. Wild garlic has been so abundant and luscious this year. If it is over, maybe next May! I was on a walk to King&...
What a beautiful day to get out diving. We checked out an interesting dive site in Whiting Bay that we dive occasionally. The seabed is pure sand with just a tiny bit of mud, a few years ago we spotte...
Patrick Harvie MSP, Economy spokesperson for the Scottish Greens, has restated his intention to make changes to the Air Departure Tax Bill after SNP and Tory MSPs blocked his attempt to make the tax m...