Dumfries

The projects promise to create new haulage routes away from busy villages, build passing places on narrow roads, upgrade existing fragile highways and promote the shipping of timber by sea. Picture: Creel Maritime Ltd

String of Scottish timber transport projects to benefit from £4m funding

People take part in the Pride Glasgow festival in June last year (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Summer of Pride is about protest, visibility and community – Vic Valentine

The scheme, designed to offer young people the opportunity to train across the firm's supply chain, will be rolled out on all future consented onshore wind farms.

Vattenfall wind farm programme to create 50 Scottish apprenticeships

A view overlooking Threave Nature Reserve where a 100 year project is underway to restore the land to its most natural state (pic: National Trust Scotland)

A closer look at a disused dairy turned wildlife haven

A Scottish rugby player says taking performance-enhancing drugs is becoming normalised in gyms.

Rugby player calls on performance-enhancing drugs action

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack says he will stand down at the next election

Dumfries Dental Clinic & Implant Centre has relocated on the back of the major investment by Scottish Dental Care.

Dumfries dental practice to double up after £600k investment

Mavis Paterson, known as Granny Mave, poses with her bike in the countryside of Dumfries and Galloway. Picture: Paul Hackett

84-year-old acknowledged by parliament for cycle in memory of her children

Mavis Paterson, known as Granny Mave, poses with her bike in the countryside of Dumfries and Galloway. Picture: Paul Hackett

Octogenarian to cycle across Scotland in memory of her three children

Golden eagle Sula was just nine months old and in "fit and healthy" condition when she died, but investigations have found no discernible cause of death. Picture: South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project

Avian flu ruled out in death of ‘healthy’ golden eagle

Joasia Zakrzewsk: Scottish ultra-marathon runner disqualified from race after using car

Scottish ultra-marathon runner disqualified from race after using car

The Lowland food and drink producers showcased to some 100 buyers at the Dumfries event. Picture: Phil Wilkinson

Supplier showcase event attracts over 50 Scottish food and drink producers

Locations don't come much better than the one occupied by Portamaggie Cottage.

Stay in a quirky and romantic former telephone exchange yards from the beach

Liam Johnston was delighted with his score in the third round of the Duncan Taylor Black Bull Challenge in Bangalore after facing some adversity. Picture: Angel Martinez/Getty Images.

Johnston loses ball up tree but is still in mix along with Howie in India

Stafford McDowall during a Glasgow Warriors training session at Scotstoun Stadium this week. (Photo by Ross MacDonald / SNS Group)

Stafford McDowall ‘massively pleased’ to remain part of Glasgow leadership group

'We’re connecting parts of the nation other networks don’t reach, bringing an economic boost and backing rural communities,' says Openreach. Picture: contributed.

Scots firms set for better connectivity as Openreach continues ultrafast rollout

Further yellow weather warnings for snow and ice are in place across Scotland on Friday and throughout the weekend, with forecasters warning that parts of Scotland could record temperatures of minus 17C over the next 48 hours.

Further snow and ice warning issued for Scotland amid -17C forecast

Did you tune in to the STV Debate?

TV Review: Little wonder SNP debate scheduled for after watershed

SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes

Kate Forbes suggests she is the SNP leadership candidate unionists fear most

Scott McKerracher is head of commercial at the organisation, having joined its ranks two years ago. Picture: James Vincent.

Interview: the Cumberland Building Society on growing market share in Scotland

A CGI image issued by the Robert Burns Ellisland Trust, of the proposed cafe and temporary exhibition space, at the Ellisland Farm in Dumfries and Galloway. Picture: Robert Burns Ellisland Trust/PA Wire

Plans to 'save' farm where Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne go on display

Times have changed when even Stephen Spielberg doesn't pack out a cinema (Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Turner)

Green light for new Aldi does not mean end of Scotland's 'food town'

Solway Recycling, which collects about 5,000 tonnes of single-use plastic waste from 3,500 farms across the UK each year to create plastic sheets, is set to grow its business thanks to HSBC UK support.

Dumfries plastic recycler to add jobs and boost sales thanks to funding deal

Moffat Mountain Rescue Team were called after a man lost his footing and fell into the burn at the Grey Mare's Tail waterfall

Man airlifted to hospital after being swept over waterfall

Luke Louden suffered a broken neck and back

Robotic therapy gives paralysed man hope of walking daughters down the aisle

Three Met Office severe weather warnings have been issued for Friday. Picture: Met Office

Scotland’s weather: Amber warning of heavy rain with ‘significant impacts’

Wigwam Holidays Wigtown offers luxury wooden en-suite wigwam cabins and larger open plan converted shipping container cabins in the outskirts of Wigtown.

Galloway agri-tourism business goes for growth with additional wigwam cabins

Police are appealing for anyone with information to come forward

Man dies after being involved in a crash in the Borders

Researchers and volunteers at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh have been monitoring more than 150 plant species to help understand how climate change is affecting their life cycles and ability to survive. Picture: RBGE

Scottish researchers investigating climate change impacts of plants

Andrew Pearson in his taproom

Ukrainian celebrity chef cooks charity dinner in Dumfries

A selection of Edward I and II silver pennies. A hoard of some 8,000 similar coins was recently found by a metal detectorist near Dumfries with each item now being painstakingly recorded by Scotland's Treasure Trove Unit. PIC: CC.

Treasures coming thick and fast for Scotland's metal detectorists

A collection of Edward I and II silver pennies. A hoard of similar coins, featuring more than 8,000 individual pieces, has been found by a metal detectorist in Dunscore near Dumfries. PIC: CC.

More than 8,000 silver coins discovered in Scottish field

King Charles with modern artisans Adam Benbarek and Emily Dey. Picture: Charlie Urmston.

King Charles' charity The Prince’s Foundation crowns sustainable fashion range

Jonathan Maitland, project manager and Michaela Baldock, site engineer from Jones Bros, with Gillies Munro, development engineer from Red Rock Power, on site.

Work kicks off on wind farm to power tens of thousands of homes

This year has been particularly good for growing applies (Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA)

Scotland's apple orchards are a real cause for optimism – Stephen Jardine

Ellisland Farm, where Burns built a house for his family after moving to the area in 1788. Picture: geograph.org/Rosser1954

Plans to develop home of Robert Burns being drawn up

Thousands of barnacle geese have already made the annual migration to Caerlaverock near Dumfries (Pic: NatureScot)

Bird flu: migrating geese threat to Scottish nature reserves

Jamie Roy died on Tuesday. Picture Facebook

Scottish DJ and record producer Jamie Roy dies age 33

Scotland's Grant Hanley during the FIFA World Cup play-off semi-final against Ukraine earlier this year. Photo by Ewan Bootman / SNS Group

Grant Hanley hailed for no nonsense loyalty to the ‘dying art’ of defending

Spottes Mill, Haugh of Urr, Castle Douglas

Prestige property: Small screen star hides big suprises

From left: Business Minister Ivan McKee and Solway Recycling boss Roy Hiddleston at the firm's Dumfries facility. Picture: Graham Edwards.

Solway Recycling continues post-fire recovery with multi-million-pound project

The first images showing the scale of the blaze have been released by the SFRS

Scale of Dumfries convent blaze damage begins to emerge

Flames engulfed the historic former convent on Corbelly Hill.

Fire crews battle blaze at historic Dumfries convent

Caerlaverock Castle near Dumfries has been closed since last June. PIC: geograph.org/Simon Ledingham.

Key historic buildings remain closed with checks to take a 'couple of years'

Melanie Innes and George Miller in action during the Para Mixed Pairs B2/B3, which they won
Pic: Isaac Parkin/PA Wire.

Ayrshire bowler George Miller, 75, is Commonwealth Games' oldest gold medallist

Ellisland Farm, recreated in Minecraft, was also the location and inspiration for some of the poet’s most famous works including Tam o Shanter and Auld Lang Syne
Pic: Martin Shields

Former home of Robert Burns brought to virtual life on Minecraft

Corporal Stuart Gillies of The 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland practices his bagpipes in Loos British Cemetery during a rehearsal for a re-burial ceremony on March 13, 2014 in Loos-en-Gohelle, France. Almost 100 years after they were killed in action in the World War One battle of Loos in 1915, twenty British soldiers will be re-interred in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Loos British Cemetery in Northern France. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

WW1: Scotland volunteered more than any other in the Great War, 108 Anniversary

The gold filigree items found packed in the Galloway Hoard. PIC: NMS.

Galloway Hoard: Mystery of gold treasures bound in silk

Scottish comic book legend Alan Grant has passed away. Pictue: Julie Bull

Tributes flood in for Scottish comic book writer Alan Grant

John Logan Mitchell QC was a 'very decent man of great integrity'

Obituaries: John Logan Mitchell QC, highly respected Scottish Advocate

Paul Coffey, CEO, The Scotland 5G Centre

From farm to plate with 5G data, that's food for thought - Paul Coffey

Magnus Johnston, Partner, Haseltine Lake Kempner LLP (HLK)

Businesses need to realise how important it is to protect innovative ideas - Mag...

Mr Bailey (centre) whose visit included on-site robot demonstrations from the 5G testbed at Crichton Central. Picture: Jenny Woolgar Photography.

BoE governor cheers 'innovative' 5G tech uses at visit to hub in Dumfries

Many restaurants are struggling to find staff and cope with demand. Picture: Chris Hondros/Getty

Phantom restaurants need honesty to get through crisis - Martyn McLaughlin

Liam Johnston acknowledges the crowd after winning the Emporda Challenge at Emporda Golf Club in Girona. Picture: Alex Caparros/Getty Images.

Liam Johnston: I wanted to jack it in when I felt numb and couldn't have cared l...

Liam Johnston shows off the trophy after winning Emporda Challenge at Emporda Golf Club in Girona. Picture: Alex Caparros/Getty Images.

Liam Johnston ends miserable run of results to land third Challenge Tour win

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