AN internationally acclaimed toxins experts is visiting Scotland next week to highlight the risks of unconventional gas extraction techniques such as “fracking”.

The debate over the viability and future of wind power in Scotland is omnipresent. But another form of renewable energy could soon become part of the national energy revolution – wave and tidal energy.

It has been a turbulent feud over wind turbines, which has set the scion of one of Scotland’s most distinguished landowning families against the owner of a neighbouring country estate, the Edinburgh financier Peter de Vink.

A FARMER has spoken of his distress after discovering eleven of his sheep mauled to death and a further nine badly injured following a dog attack.

TORNESS Nuclear power station has opened to the public for the first time since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in America.

A DIVING expedition is under way to uncover the secrets of giant horse mussels on Scotland’s seabed.

DONALD Trump today launched his legal challenge against the Scottish Government’s decision to give the go-ahead to the controversial offshore wind farm he claims forced him to pull the plug on future investment in his luxury Scottish golf resort.

Lightning struck a television tower in Russia’s second city on Monday during a thunder storm, lighting up the sky in a spectacular display.

THE leader of the Scottish ­Government review of landownership yesterday pledged to examine ways of redistributing the cash wealthy lairds make from wind farms to benefit the less-advantaged.

THEY might look as though they should be restricted to the golf course. But these open-sided electric microcars will be used to help tourists explore Scotland’s countryside through an environmentally friendly transport scheme.

CROFTERS are lambing. There is no better time of year, at least on a fine morning. The terrible spring made lambing in the southern areas of Scotland a ghastly experience.

A diving expedition is under way to uncover the secrets of giant horse mussels on Scotland’s seabed.

COUNCIL planners are recommending that controversial plans for a nine turbine wind farm in Perthshire should be refused - because of its impact on the Highland Fault, the distinctive geographical feature which marks the divide the Highland and Lowlands of Scotland.

A POTENTIALLY deadly Black Widow spider has been found in a shipment delivered to an industrial unit in Aberdeen.

SCOTLAND is “leading the way” in meeting the world’s energy needs of the future, First Minister Alex Salmond said today, as he opened Europe’s first “world class” electricity grid research centre.

THE long awaited reform of the discredited Common Fisheries Policy took a “significant step forward” today following marathon talks at a meeting of European Fisheries Ministers in Brussels.

HIGHLAND councillors are considering proposals to allow guided treks between the Cairngorm funicular railway’s top station and the Cairn Gorm plateau to remain permanently.

RENEWABLE energy projects could create more than 10,000 jobs on the Scottish islands by 2030, according to a government-commissioned report.

ANTI-WINDFARM objectors have condemned plans by a renewables firm to build a windfarm next to an iconic Highland beauty spot.

SCOTTISH beaches are the worst in Britain for being polluted with discarded plastic drinks bottles.