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Images of Scotland: River Tay, Fife
Reader Ian Gordon photographed these nesting mute swans at Tayport, on the River Tay in Fife, on a chill but bright day. Swans mate for life and return to the same nest year after year View more images of Scotland on our Facebook page • To submit your pi
‘Spy in the sky’ warning to growers
Growers of horticultural crops who are not paying a levy to the Horticultural Development Council (HDC) were warned this week that a "spy in the sky" will be used to track them down. Speaking in Dundee, Dr Jon Knight, head of research at...
Farming: Questions over £6m weather support
THE Scottish Government's announcement earlier this week of details of its £6 million weather aid aimed at sheep and cattle farmers was yesterday viewed with a degree of scepticism by the chairman of the Scottish region of the National Sheep Association.
Theatre review: First Love, Edinburgh
OF ALL the theatre companies in all the world, the Gare St Lazare Players of Ireland, founded in 1997, surely have the clearest mission. Traverse Theatre **** Year after year, the actor Conor Lovett performs the prose works of Samuel Beckett, as directed
Comedy review: Dylan Moran, Inverness
WHEN railing against one's own mortality and flailing against the onward march of civilisation are your default settings, even a spluttering work in progress from a comic as gifted as Dylan Moran is richly entertaining. Eden Court **** This is early days
Gig review: Ghostpoet, Glasgow
A LONDON-based MC and beat-poet with a knack for making albums - 2011's Mercury-nominated Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam and this year's Some Say I So I Say Light - with titles almost as satisfying to say out loud as the records are to...
Profit taking prolongs FTSE’s retreat
THE FTSE 100 continued its retreat from near-record highs after a previous session that saw the London market's biggest fall in a year. Traders continued to take profits from the significant rises so far this year, sending the top flight another 42.45 po
Sally Bercow tweet on Lord McAlpine defamatory
A TWEET by Sally Bercow, the wife of the Commons Speaker, about Lord McAlpine, following a BBC Newsnight programme on child sex abuse, was highly defamatory, a judge has ruled. She had denied libel and after the judgment said: “To say I’m surprised and d
UK was six hours from running out of gas in March
BRITAIN was just six hours away from running out of gas during the cold spell in March, according to an energy expert working for the Crown Estate. The revelation led to fears about the UK’s reliance on imported energy and raised questions about the UK g
Mystery of structure at bottom of Sea of Galilee
A CIRCULAR structure lying at the bottom of the Sea of Galilee could contain the secrets of
Welcome predator: Red squirrels have an ally – the once scarce pine marten
A few years ago a forestry conservation worker showed me a nest box erected for barn owls on the edge of pinewood in the Trossachs that had instead been taken over by a pine marten to raise her own kits. Shortly afterwards we came to a magnificent viewpo
Over 100 skipfuls of rubbish on roads and railways
LITTER louts drop enough rubbish at the side of Scotland's railways and roads every year to fill 112 skips - or two Olympic-sized swimming pools. Figures released through Freedom of Information show 1,800 tonnes of refuse are collected each year, ranging
Brendan Rodgers relief as son cleared in sex case
LIVERPOOL Football Club manager Brendan Rodgers has spoken of his relief after his son was cleared in a sex case involving a teenage girl. Anton Rodgers, 20, and three Brighton and Hove Albion team-mates were found not guilty of sexual assault and voyeur
Driving schools announce ‘cyclist awareness’ plans
LEARNER drivers are to be taught "cyclist awareness" under plans announced yesterday by the UK's two biggest driving schools. The AA Driving School and BSM have committed to ensuring that their instructors teach vital skills about sharing...
Erikka Askeland: Drinking in caffeine culture
I AM a drug addict. When I get my fix, I get a sense of mild euphoria and well-being. The day brightens as my brain shakes off its blankets. When I don’t have it, the world around me is flattened and blurred, as if my senses are befuddled and encased in
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