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Photo: Eagle Stone. Source: Kyle Chronical

Get to know Highland seers and “second sight”

There was a wright from Kinloch Rannoch who kept hearing planes and hammers at work, ...

By Silvia Muras & Elizabeth Lunardini, The Kyle Chronicle

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Swein MacDonald and isobel MacDonald. Photo courtesy of © Gaye MacDonald-Wilson

The mystical predications of the Highland Seer, Swein MacDonald

Swein MacDonald rose to fame in the 1970s for his mystical predictions, fueled by alcohol, ...
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Photo: Glen Fruin oil leak clean-up. Source: The Lochside Press

Glen Fruin oil leak: Clean-up now under way

Publication: The Lochside Press The clean-up of an oil leak in Glen Fruin, discovered in ...
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People Standing on a Park Footpath on a Rainy Autumn Day. By Solomon Antwi (Pexels)

A new National Park for Scotland?

In July 2024 the Scottish government selected Galloway as a possible location for a new ...

By The Glenkens Gazette

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Heat pump installation. Source: Bylines Scotland

Heat pump happiness

We had a Vaillant 7KW heat pump installed in June 2024, along with a new ...

By Hillary Sillitto, Bylines scotland

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Foreign Correspondent Jen Stout at Wigtown Book Festival. Photo: Colin Hattersley Photography

Further calls to Culture Secretary for a Public Interest Journalism Institute

The author and investigative journalist was speaking at the Wigtown Book Festival at the weekend. ...

By Phyllis Stephen, The Edinburgh Reporter

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Photos by Natalie MacDonald

Castlehill is being transformed into a nature haven…but not without the help of its community

A community farm and wildlife initiative is looking for helpers to keep the site in ...

By Natalie MacDonald, The Clydesider

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Caledonian Pinewoods. The Lochside Press

£1.1m award for nature restoration initiative

Wild Strathfillan received a £1.1m boost from the Scottish Government’s Nature Restoration Fund, managed by ...

By The Lochside Press

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The Scott Monument in Edinburgh

Council overpay staff by £2.4m

Edinburgh Council employees have been overpaid salaries by a staggering £2.4 million, The Edinburgh Reporter ...

By Stephen Rafferty, The Edinburgh Reporter

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Books at bookshop

Word on the street: are authors comfortable with becoming ‘celebrities’?

There is, as far as I know, no central register of UK book festivals, but ...

By Brian Palmer, The Ileach

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faceless female frustrated. Photographer: Alex Green (Pexels)

How does loneliness and isolation impact the experiences of migrant women?

Many women globally are migrating to foreign lands to seek a sheltered future and better ...

By Laura Ndanuko, Migrant Women Press

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The Just Transition Commission launches its report weeks after the controversial Viking Energy wind farm was switched on. Photo: Shetland News

Community empowerment key to just transition

Scotland’s Just Transition Commission is set to call for the introduction of the statutory right ...

By Hans Marter, Shetland News

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