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Olympic Gold Medallist, Greg Rutherford reads from the 'World's loudest ever comic strip', which is part of a World Book Day edition of the Beano, as part of the comic's 'Libraries Aloud' reading initiative in partnership with the National Literary Trust.

When is World Book Day 2023? What is it? Easy costumes, activities, books

World Book Day 2023 is coming - everything you need to know

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

These are not quite the highest in Scotland, at 371 feet, found near Morvich. Locals call them the 'gloomy falls' or the 'forbidden falls' because of the menacing rocky drop. Just watch your step on the slippery rocks here. There's a vertigo-inducing steep path to reach them.

11 Incredible Scottish waterfalls: Falls of Glomach crowned most beautiful

Situated off the southwest coast of the Isle of Mull, Iona is an island paradise with its white sand beaches and turquoise waters. The Isle has been home to a community since 563 when Saint Columba is rumoured to have founded the island’s monastery and is regarded by many as the symbolic centre of Scottish Christianity. Its gorgeous abbey is regarded as the best preserved Middle Age ecclesiastical building in the west of Scotland and contains unique features including one of the best preserved 9th Century crosses in Great Britain.

9 Scottish locations that could be UNESCO World Heritage sites

The campaign to secure World Heritage Site status for Scotland’s Flow Country has entered a new phase with the formal submission of the formal nomination dossier to UNESCO.

Flow Country World Heritage bid enters new phase

Discover a world of wonder on your doorstep this winter

Ad Feature North Highlands, Caithness and Sutherland are the perfect getaway

A view across the city of Edinburgh from Calton Hill at dusk, as Edinburgh is to host the Unesco Cities of Literature network conference in 2024, marking 20 years since it became the first city to be given the designation. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Edinburgh to host major Unesco literature conference

Adult Learning Week to Improve academic skills

The Unesco headquarters in Paris has transformed its grounds into productive gardens with herbs, vegetables and fruit trees

Homo urbanus is starting to evolve - May East

Old buildings in the town of Paraty, gateway to the Atlantic Forest, eastern Brazil. Pic: PA Photo/Alamy.

Discover the Brazilian billionaires’ hideaway - Scotland on Sunday Travel

Stormy weather by Annie Broadley is a painting of oil and mixed media on board

Annie Broadley's Stormy Weather paints a picture of climate change

Ironbridge Gorge was designated a UNESCO world heritage site in 1986. (Picture: Shutterstock)

You could buy a world heritage site bungalow for just £1 - but there's a catch

One of Playfair's plans for Edinburgh's Third New Town which was submitted in 1819.

The plans for Edinburgh's Third New Town and why it was never built

The Calanais standing stones are the jewel in the crown of Neolithic Lewis but the search is on to find out how prehistoric people lived their everyday lives on the islands. PIC: geograph.org/Doug Lee

Searching for traces of Prehistoric people in the peat of the Outer Hebrides

Susan Stewart is Director of The Open University in Scotland.

Improve your job satisfaction and self-esteem with the OU

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SNP President Michael Russell

SNP president Michael Russell says party in a 'tremendous mess'

Mel Gibson and James Cosmo in Braveheart

Goriest battle scenes were edited out of Braveheart says James Cosmo

SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes taking part in the SNP leadership debate in Inverness on Friday

Kate Forbes says decisions in SNP taken by 'too few people'