- Warning issued about dangerous gas
- Neighbour rescues woman from fire
- Fund for 'climate justice' launched
- Former RAF Machrihanish sold for £1
- Scorching day for marathon runners
- Five held over £600,000 drugs haul
- Anti-independence campaign 'soon'
- Saltire Games ban 'ridiculous'
- Scottish drink-drive plans welcomed
Outdoors
Walk of the week: The Fara
At long last a good day, forecasting blue skies and a gentle breeze, which coincided with convenient travel arrangements. I met Rhona at Dalwhinnie – our target a trip to The Fara that overlooks the northern end of Loch Ericht.
Outdoors: Road tip - the new Seed Truck
When is a truck not a truck? When it’s a Seed Truck. This one-off invention is soon to become one of the most celebrated vehicles on the road.
Outdoors: Have wheels will travel
Nothing is more natural and healthy than walking with your family. But surely the most beautiful countryside is too rugged to buggy in? Not so – here are three stunning walks you can do with even the tiniest tot.
Roger Cox: Passion for cycling brought new life to Peebles and the Tweed Valley
What would the Tweed Valley be like if mountain biking had never taken off as a mainstream sport? Quieter and less prosperous, no doubt, but according to Neil Dalgleish, director of the TweedLove Bike Festival, probably home to a much more elderly population as well.
Jonathan Trew: Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival
It’s not just T in the Park-style music festivals that have exploded in popularity over the last 15 years or so. Small scale regional arts festivals have also mushroomed – they just tend to involve less lager.
Shooting and fishing: Crumpet has turned out to be the best shooting dog we have ever had
TODAY is Crumpet’s birthday. She is four. We shall have a two-barrel salute to celebrate the event at which I predict she will tear about like a blue-arsed fly looking for something to retrieve only to find that, not for the first time in our brief shooting career, there is nothing to pick up.
Outdoors: The grebe, once endangered thanks to the fashion industry, is thriving again
More times than not, my attempts to plan ahead so as to get a good view of an animal or bird ends in failure.
Walk of the Week: Carn na Caim
On the way to the hills the topic of football invariably crops up. Having lived close to Edinburgh’s Easter Road as a schoolboy, Hibs receive my support.
Roger Cox: When it comes to recording the magnitude of surfing exploits, size really matters
ONE rainy day last November, I started receiving a steady trickle of emails with links to the same jaw-dropping photograph: a surfer in a black-and-yellow wetsuit skittering down the face of a huge, aquamarine wall of water, looking for all the world like an exotic insect fleeing the maw of an about-to-snap venus flytrap.
Jonathan Trew: “Get off your horse and drink your Darjeeling”
The Borders and Ayrshire may well be the most exciting Scottish locations this weekend; particularly if you have a yen for line dancing and/or biographies. I suspect that any crossover between the two would offer slender pickings for the promoters although slim pickings does sound as though it could be an artist who might play at the Kelso Country and Western Music Festival this weekend.
Roger Cox: Plentiful snow is great, but if skiers can’t get to it they will slope off
Remember a few weeks ago, when I said the 2011/12 Scottish ski season had been a disaster? Well, I was wrong.
Walk of the Week: Tentsmuir
HOPING for drier weather, a few weeks ago Jimbo and I went to Tentsmuir, so named when a Danish fleet in the 1780s was shipwrecked and some of the sailors settled there, living in tents on the moor.
Outdoors: The Scottish Birdfair isn’t just for twitchers
THE growing awareness of our natural environment and the need to protect it is perhaps one of the most remarkable sea-changes in public perception to have occurred in society over the last 50 years or so.
Shooting and fishing: The Scottish Government persists in supporting what it agrees is the unsupportable
If I were a member of a salmon river board I’d be checking up on any vacant netting rights in my area before the netsmen get their hands on them.
Roger Cox: Enjoying the great outdoors is an art not a science, but for Generation Xbox, the formula now exists
ONE of the most effective ways to suck the magic out of a much-loved activity is to explain it in simple, ‘how to’ terms.
Shooting and fishing: They say the Government has made an absolute mess of managing the inshore fisheries
I WOULDN’T want to let the salmon farming industry off the hook, but could it be that unrestricted inshore trawling for prawns, scallops, cod and the like has had anything to do with the collapse of west coast sea trout fisheries?
1 comment
Roger Cox: A race beneath the shadow of the Forth bridges, one of the “best 500 runs in the world,” is 25 this year Picture gallery
I’M a control freak”, says John McKay, “and I’m quite happy to be called that in print.” To organise something like the AGR Black Rock ‘5’ for the last 21 years, as McKay has done, you’d need to be.
Outdoors: Scotland’s orchids have a captivating quality few other wildflowers can hope to match
CAUGHT in a frozen image in the corner of my eye, a grey sharp-winged bird had just rocketed over a small undulating crest by a tumbling Highland river.
- Scottish independence: I don’t want ‘separatism’ says Sir Tom Farmer
- Rangers administration: End game nears for fallen icon
- USA 5 - 1 Scotland: Donovan grabs hattrick as Scots routed in Florida
- Rangers administration: Duff & Phelps ‘hopeful’ that Taxman will agree to CVA
- Scottish independence: Labour voters ‘will deliver independence’
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Edinburgh
Monday 28 May 2012
Today
Sunny
Temperature: 9 C to 21 C
Wind Speed: 15 mph
Wind direction: North east
Tomorrow
Cloudy
Temperature: 10 C to 16 C
Wind Speed: 12 mph
Wind direction: North east
