Big Ideas

Scotland’s agriculture sector is changing rapidly, with rural businesses across the country driving forward groundbreaking innovations in attempts to address the myriad challenges of the land.

Healthy soil is not only used to grow food, it has a range of other benefits.

Over a century ago, Henry Ford, who revolutionised the automobile business, stated: “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”

Women have always played key roles in farming but it is still chiefly a male-dominated industry, propped up by the expectations of both land inheritance and, in the past, the physical nature of the work.

Provided all the political bluster comes to pass and this country leaves the EU after almost 50 years of being closely aligned to the fortunes of wider European agriculture, farmers in this country will face a largely unknown but probably less profitable future.

In the early 1980s, Edinburgh hosted a series of secret meetings which some argue played a key role in ending the Cold War.

Few cities compare to Edinburgh during August.

It was a coaching strategy that helped deliver unparalleled success for Britain’s elite cyclists since the turn of the century.

A company backing a proposed spaceport in the remote north of Scotland has promised to operate in a "green manner" ahead of an environmental assessment of the site.

An Edinburgh-based construction and property firm has detailed the “vital” monitoring work it is conducting regarding the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine.