PORTOBELLO Power Station provided the city of Edinburgh with electricity for over half a century. Positioned just a few short strides from Edinburgh’s best-loved seafront, its location is difficult to imagine today.

LITTLE Sparta – the Scottish garden rated one of Britain’s must-see art treasures – has been thrown a financial lifeline which will help safeguard its future.

A community buyout of a parcel of land next to a historic lighthouse, designed by the grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson, has moved a step closer.

A MONSTER war of words has erupted over how the world-famous Nessie is promoted. The Loch Ness Monster is one of the Highlands’ biggest assets, but the way the legendary monster is portrayed to tourists is threatening to split the business community on the shores she reputedly roams.

STANDING stones thought to have been placed to mark the fist major skirmish of the Battle of Bannockburn were probably there thousands of years before, it was revealed yesterday.

HERITAGE charities have raised fears a new heritage “super-body” could threaten their survival, with the National Trust for Scotland urging thousands of its members to object to the controversial plan.

Dennis Malcolm is Master Distiller at Glen Grant Distillery in Rothes and has worked in the whisky trade for over 50 years. Here he looks back on his career and reveals how new technology has had a profound effect on even the most traditional of industries.

The word Stramash is used to describe a noisy commotion or an uproar.

ABERDEENSHIRE councillors today approved plans to spend £300,000 on essential repairs to safeguard the future of a decaying art deco swimming pool complex - granted Category-A listed status because of its outstanding architectural and historic importance.

SOME of the first ever images of Africa seen by western eyes are going on display in Scotland – thanks to the 19th century expeditions of Scotland’s greatest ever explorer.

DECONSTRUCTING the appeal of Caithness’ most famous village seems a rather unkind thing to do - around 112,000 visitors go to John o’ Groats because it’s John o’ Groats.

PREVALENT in both traditional and contemporary literature, braw has sustained popular appeal for several centuries.

HE was regarded as a pioneer in his field, producing extraordinary designs which gave rise to the towering streetscapes of New York and other cities across the US.

A MAJOR golf tourism initiative, launched two years ago to bring more golfers to the North east of Scotland - home to the Trump golf resort - is to be expanded to meet the demand from visitors and operators.

TOURISM chiefs today urged the people of Scotland to get behind a campaign to have Dunnottar Castle in Aberdeenshire, which inspired Princess Merida’s family home in Disney-Pixar’s Brave, named as the “8th Wonder of the World.”

LOCATED within a slice of the wide gorge between Princes Street and Waverley train station, the Waverley Market, the Victorian predecessor of the Princes Mall, was once the city’s premier vegetable and fruit market.

GLASGOW Cathedral will provide the focus for Britain’s commemoration of the outbreak of the First World War next year with a service which the Queen is expected to attend.

Each time you are reminded that Traquair, the oldest inhabited house in Scotland is more than 900 years old and has been visited by 27 kings and queens, the knowledge brings with it a fresh sense of excitement.

THE skull of a whale whose struggle to survive being beached captured the nation is to go on public display.

MEMBERS of the public are to be given a rare chance this weekend to step inside a remote cottage once used for picnics by the Queen Mother on Royal Deeside.