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Inverness, Highlands and Islands

Rescued otters are kept at the IOSF sanctuary until they have learned to hunt and are able to look after themselves, usually when they reach around 12 to 15 months old

How a charity on Skye is working to save otters across the globe

Bonnie Prince Charlie meets Flora MacDonald: his time on the run after Culloden has now been reimagined by novelist Alan Warner in his new book Nothing Left to Fear From Hell.
Bonnie Prince Charlie meets Flora MacDonald: his time on the run after Culloden has now been reimagined by novelist Alan Warner in his new book Nothing Left to Fear From Hell.

Bonnie Prince Charlie's escape after Culloden reimagined by novelist Alan Warner

Highlands and Islands Airports Limited managing director Inglis Lyon at Inverness Airport. Picture: The Scotsman
Highlands and Islands Airports Limited managing director Inglis Lyon at Inverness Airport. Picture: The Scotsman

Future Flight: Airport chief upbeat that US tourists will fuel summer recovery

Fifty Pitches Road road in the Cardonald area of Glasgow. Picture: Potholes Make Glasgow
Fifty Pitches Road road in the Cardonald area of Glasgow. Picture: Potholes Make Glasgow

Why does Scotland have so many potholes and what is causing them?

The two ferries being built for CalMac at the Scottish Government-owned Ferguson Marine shipyard have been delayed, again (Picture: John Devlin)
The two ferries being built for CalMac at the Scottish Government-owned Ferguson Marine shipyard have been delayed, again (Picture: John Devlin)

Scotland's continually delayed ferries are a complete joke – Scotsman comment

Cuiridh na molaidhean às dha ge bith dè a tha air fhàgail de ghnìomhachais an iasgaich. (Dealbh: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Cuiridh na molaidhean às dha ge bith dè a tha air fhàgail de ghnìomhachais an iasgaich. (Dealbh: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Cò idir a tha seasamh còraichean nan eilean?

Cybermen at the entrance to the National Museum Of Scotland at a preview for the Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder exhibition at National Museum of Scotland in December. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire
Cybermen at the entrance to the National Museum Of Scotland at a preview for the Doctor Who Worlds of Wonder exhibition at National Museum of Scotland in December. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

National Museum crowned Scotland’s most popular attraction

Aberdeen and North East

Anne, receptionist at Landale Court, with the Trauma Teddies
Anne, receptionist at Landale Court, with the Trauma Teddies

Landale Court staff and homeowners knit Trauma Teddies for charity

Pittodrie House Hotel
Pittodrie House Hotel

Pittodrie House Hotel confident about its next chapter

Bill Thain, National Account Manager at Mackie's of Scotland (Pic:Ross Johnston/Newsline Media)
Bill Thain, National Account Manager at Mackie's of Scotland (Pic:Ross Johnston/Newsline Media)

Loyal Mackie’s staff celebrate a combined 93 years of service

Plans have been lodged to convert the former post office and art gallery.
Plans have been lodged to convert the former post office and art gallery.

Plans to turn former gallery into family home

Be quick! The competition closes on March 31.
Be quick! The competition closes on March 31.

Final chance to capture the essence of Coorie

Ambassadors: Robson Green, Dame Katherine Grainger and Al Peake
Ambassadors: Robson Green, Dame Katherine Grainger and Al Peake

River Dee charity announces Ambassadors

A new project to re-design a 4-kilometre stretch of the Tarland burn aims to regenerate it, bringing a raft of benefits for nature and the region’s resilience to climate change. (Photo: Richard Humpidge, RSPB).
A new project to re-design a 4-kilometre stretch of the Tarland burn aims to regenerate it, bringing a raft of benefits for nature and the region’s resilience to climate change. (Photo: Richard Humpidge, RSPB).

A new project to re-design the Tarland burn

Dundee and Tayside

The bumper order includes a deal for 50 iconic JCB backhoe loaders.
The bumper order includes a deal for 50 iconic JCB backhoe loaders.

JCB seals record £87.5m order with Perth-based plant hire firm

Ten of ScotRail's fleet of 25 Inter7City trains were damaged at the peak of the problem. Picture: SNS Group
Ten of ScotRail's fleet of 25 Inter7City trains were damaged at the peak of the problem. Picture: SNS Group

ScotRail inter-city fleet hit by failure to equip them to cope with autumn

Loganair chief executive Jonathan Hinkles said many business travellers understood the importance of supporting a route to keep it operating year round. Picture: Loganair
Loganair chief executive Jonathan Hinkles said many business travellers understood the importance of supporting a route to keep it operating year round. Picture: Loganair

Future Flight: Loganair's ‘very difficult message’ over year-round flight fares

Sistema Scotland has secured an additional £1.5 million from the Scottish Government.
Sistema Scotland has secured an additional £1.5 million from the Scottish Government.

After funding cuts turmoil, culture sector needs to be treated with more respect

The period marks the first full financial year under Lesley Larg, who became managing partner of Thorntons in June 2021. Picture: Sandy Young Photography
The period marks the first full financial year under Lesley Larg, who became managing partner of Thorntons in June 2021. Picture: Sandy Young Photography

Scottish legal heavyweight rebounds from Covid with double-digit growth

The SNP pledged in 2011 to complete dualling of the A9 between Perth and Inverness by 2025 (Picture: John Devlin)
The SNP pledged in 2011 to complete dualling of the A9 between Perth and Inverness by 2025 (Picture: John Devlin)

SNP's A9 dualling pledge failed. Will its plans for car travel fare any better?

The Caledonian Sleeper franchise is due to end on June 25. Picture: Serco
The Caledonian Sleeper franchise is due to end on June 25. Picture: Serco

Caledonian Sleeper expected to be nationalised by Scottish Government

Glasgow and Strathclyde

Grand Union hopes to finalise plans to order its new train fleet soon. Picture: Grand Union
Grand Union hopes to finalise plans to order its new train fleet soon. Picture: Grand Union

Grand Union optimistic of approval for spacious new Stirling-London trains

Glen Sannox at the Ferguson Marine shipyard in Port Glasgow in October. Picture: John Devlin
Glen Sannox at the Ferguson Marine shipyard in Port Glasgow in October. Picture: John Devlin

Delayed ferry Glen Sannox will need weeks of trials after completion – CalMac

Ryan J Mackay and Malcolm Cumming will be playing Davie Balfour and Alan Breck Stewart in the forthcoming National Theatre of Scotland production of Kidnapped. Image: Laurence Winram
Ryan J Mackay and Malcolm Cumming will be playing Davie Balfour and Alan Breck Stewart in the forthcoming National Theatre of Scotland production of Kidnapped. Image: Laurence Winram

Kidnapped: Turning Stevenson's adventure into a new coming-of-age stage show

Allison Gardner has been co-director of the Glasgow Film Festival since 2007. Picture: Eoin Carey
Allison Gardner has been co-director of the Glasgow Film Festival since 2007. Picture: Eoin Carey

Glasgow Film Festival issues plea for ‘serious investment’ in event

Glen Sannox is currently due to be completed by May. Picture: John Devlin
Glen Sannox is currently due to be completed by May. Picture: John Devlin

Ferguson Marine £87,000 bonus payments ‘unacceptable’ – Audit Scotland

Karen Dunbar. Picture: BBC Scotland
Karen Dunbar. Picture: BBC Scotland

Karen Dunbar: I earned more from karaoke than Chewin’ the Fat

Edinburgh, Fife and Lothians

Actress Tilda Swinton. Picture: Marc Piasecki
Actress Tilda Swinton. Picture: Marc Piasecki

Tilda Swinton: 'Invaluable' Filmhouse should not be sold to highest bidder

Protesters gathered outside the boarded-up cinema on Sunday to call for the Filmhouse to be saved and not sold for a pub. Picture: Annabelle Gauntlett.
Protesters gathered outside the boarded-up cinema on Sunday to call for the Filmhouse to be saved and not sold for a pub. Picture: Annabelle Gauntlett.

Edinburgh Filmhouse: SNP demands building reopens as art house cinema

Archbishop Leo Cushley
Archbishop Leo Cushley

Parishioners question leading Catholic cleric over multimillion pound funds

Fringe Society chief excutive Shona McCarthy. Picture: Lisa Ferguson
Fringe Society chief excutive Shona McCarthy. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Edinburgh International Festival and Fringe set to share £8.6m Budget boost

An image from romantic comedy film Gregory’s Girl was projected onto the Filmhouse in Edinburgh as part of the campaign to save it
An image from romantic comedy film Gregory’s Girl was projected onto the Filmhouse in Edinburgh as part of the campaign to save it

Businessman reveals eleventh-hour bid to reopen Edinburgh’s Filmhouse cinema

COS Edinburgh Pic Mark Cocksedge
COS Edinburgh Pic Mark Cocksedge

COS fashion chain opens in St James Quarter

Fringe Society chief executive Shona McCarthy. Picture: Lisa Ferguson
Fringe Society chief executive Shona McCarthy. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Edinburgh Festival Fringe chiefs defend plan for new multi-million pound HQ

Dumfries and Borders

Lisa Thomson is to be inducted into the Melrose 7s Hall of Fame. (Photo by Ross MacDonald / SNS Group)
Lisa Thomson is to be inducted into the Melrose 7s Hall of Fame. (Photo by Ross MacDonald / SNS Group)

Melrose Sevens women’s tournament to be played alongside men’s event

Developed by the Tweed Forum environmental charity, the Eddleston Water project in the Scottish Borders has been chosen as a Unesco Ecohydrology Demonstration Site – the only one in the UK
Developed by the Tweed Forum environmental charity, the Eddleston Water project in the Scottish Borders has been chosen as a Unesco Ecohydrology Demonstration Site – the only one in the UK

Unesco designation for Scottish Borders river project

Officers wait outside Selkirk Sheriff Court. Picture: Lisa Ferguson
Officers wait outside Selkirk Sheriff Court. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Man charged over disappearance of 11-year-old girl to appear in court

Benny Higgins, chairman of Buccleuch: 'The fit between Buccleuch and Oxygen Conservation could not be better.'
Benny Higgins, chairman of Buccleuch: 'The fit between Buccleuch and Oxygen Conservation could not be better.'

Langholm Moor: New owner to develop plan for 'unique area' following land sale

Boath House
Boath House

Scotland's best restaurants with rooms to visit in 2023

Virgin Hotels Glasgow
Virgin Hotels Glasgow

Luxury hotels opening in Scotland for 2023