Four others taken to hospital

The reborn Frontera swaps old-school flaws for modern tech, hybrid or electric power and genuine family-friendly appeal

Edinburgh Airport is the busiest in Scotland, used by 15.8 million passengers in 2024. Flights take off from Edinburgh for more than 150 destinations around the globe.

A remote Chatsworth Estate cottage with its own lake, woodland setting and the kind of peace that’s hard to find

The Hearts player has earned big praise while out on loan this season.

A total of eight Hibees are currently plying their trade elsewhere

I’ve finally given FOREO skincare devices a go - and I now understand the hype around them.

Amazon shoppers can't get enough of this lightweight suitcase that has climbed to the top of the bestseller list.

What better way to see the amazing sites of New York State than by taking to the open roads and exploring its historic towns, delightful parks, wineries and much more at your own pace.

As Record Store Day takes place today (April 18), we take a look at Edinburgh’s long love affair with the humble record shop and how the culture has changed over the years.

Capital has other public transport needs, claims Lib Dem leader

A three-bedroom family home in Edinburgh which is just a stone’s throw from the beach is currently on sale for offers over £390,000.

Record Store Day takes place today (April 18) and Edinburgh is bursting at the seams with plenty of shops to take a gander in.

Nicky Cadden fitness addressed with derby looming large after blank weekend for Edinburgh clubs

When the weather starts to change a lightweight jacket is all that’s needed - and this spring/summer season it’s all about collarless jackets.

Pulling up outside the Inn at the Presidio, the picture which has been painted by so many of San Francisco as a city buzzing with rebellion, colour and the clanging of cable cars, albeit under a layer of fog, seems a world away.

It’s the city that never sleeps. But it’s also the city that never lets you sleep.

There’s an expectation when planning a visit to Santa Barbara that it will be a postcard-perfect destination with the sun, sea and surfing that we have come to expect from California.

Local man believes other people have been targeted by “disgusting” group of youths

The machair is nature’s dazzling display on these remote islands, but this rare habitat also plays a vital role for wildlife and the resurgent crofting community

Some 8,000 years ago, behind the retreating glaciers, a remarkable environment was born on the western fringes of Scotland’s Outer Hebridean islands, forged by the wind and waves. It began with rising sea levels and sweeping Atlantic gales depositing crushed shell-sand inland; this settled over glacial sediment to form a coastal belt of lime-rich soil. Buffered from the sea by mounting sand dunes, this winter-wet and summer-sunned substrate produced one of Europe’s rarest habitats: the “machair”, Gaelic for “fertile grassy plain”. Abounding in diverse, colourful wildflowers and an array of associated wildlife, coastal machair is a precious, globally important outpost of biodiversity, supporting everything from purple orchids and nodding blue campanulas to endangered birdlife, otters and rare bumblebees.

As a wildflower fanatic, visiting the Outer Hebrides in peak machair bloom has long been an aspiration. Over the years, I’d read accounts of its arresting, vibrant seasonality – its shifting blankets of red and white clover, yellow trefoil and creamy eyebright, bold against the sky. Although remnant machair is also found in north-west Ireland, its greatest extent lies on this Scottish archipelago, notably the islands of Barra, Uist and Harris.

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After trekking in from near Oykel Bridge, our group stayed the night at Choire Mhoir and Magoo’s bothies (conjoined Mountain Bothies Association and non-MBA bothies, both free) in the northern Highlands. Emerging from the bothies come morning, a fog hovered between the mountains leading up to the summit of Seana Bhràigh, peaking out above, and Loch a’ Choire Mhóir below. As the sun rose, the fog steadily lifted, but not before creating a magical fogbow above the loch and bothies.
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Join the Famous Five in Dorset, relive Springwatch in the Peak District … our selection of Easter treats will keep all the family entertained

Spring has arrived at Wicken Fen, one of Europe’s most important wetlands, and with it the first summer migrants. Chiffchaffs are usually the earliest, with their rhythmic song ringing out across the fens. Then, if the weather is mild, blackcaps and willow warblers might join them. Listen closely, especially early morning or at dusk, for the foghorn-like calls of the booming bittern across the reedbeds. There’s a pushchair- and wheelchair-friendly boardwalk around Sedge Fen, and wheelchair-accessible wildlife hides. Look out for the electric blue flash of a kingfisher, and male marsh harriers performing their dramatic sky-dancing flights as the breeding season gets under way, before the cuckoos arrive in late April.
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It isn’t only climbers who get misty-eyed about the awe-inspiring mountains and ancient pinewoods of Britain’s first national nature reserve, created 75 years ago

The waymarked quartzite path glimmers in the sun, flanked by amber-gold grassland. Beyond, one of Scotland’s finest landscapes opens up before me, a woodland of ancient Caledonian pines leading my eye to the metallic glint of Loch Maree. On the other side of the water, a winding river separates the steep, stacked rocks of Beinn a’Mhùinidh from Slioch, one of the great mountains of Wester Ross, rising to a knuckle ridge of Torridonian sandstone.

I’m walking the four-mile mountain trail looping through Beinn Eighe national nature reserve (NNR), Britain’s first NNR, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. In a crowded list, you’d be hard pushed to find a more soul-stirring landscape in all of Scotland.

On a tight budget, we stayed in a bothy, climbed a mountain, looked for Nessie and – best of all – made memories that money can’t buy

‘There! There – I can see it!” The cries of my four-year-old echoed around the ruins of 13th-century Urquhart Castle, causing a group of US tourists to come running over to the corbelled bartizans (overhanging turrets) where we stood. “It’s Nessie, I saw her,” he insisted, pointing at the ripples spinning out from the back of a sightseeing vessel on Loch Ness.

This was day four of a budget, week-long Scotland adventure for the two of us, and we were spending the day in Drumnadrochit, on the shores of the country’s most famous body of water, looking for the fabled monster.

In 2006 a dinner by Scotland’s most celebrated chef was held at the iconic House for an Art Lover in Glasgow to celebrate Restaurant Andrew Fairlie’s second Michelin star. Twenty years on that charitable dinner is being staged once more to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the famous Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed building’s reopening in 1996.…

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Following the recent merger of Paton & Co with Peter Graham & Associates we caught up with Patrick Paton, Partner at Paton & Co to find out what the property market is like the Scottish Borders.  Alongside residential sales and lettings, the combined business now brings together a combined team of estate agents and rural…

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A chance sixtieth birthday present of a gin-making experience sparked an interest that has since become a passion for a pair of best friends from the Scottish Borders. Now retired GP Paul Cormie and retired academic Malcolm MacLeod have set up their own distillery and launched a range of botanical gins. We sat down with…

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The Scotland Women’s rugby team are preparing to make history when they play England’s Red Roses this Saturday 18th April at Murrayfield stadium in Edinburgh. The milestone represents a significant moment for the women’s game in Scotland, underlining continued growth in interest and matchday attendance for the national team. The fixture, which will see Scotland…

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Scottish spirits innovator Domhayn is attempting a new world first – to mature spirits under pressures equivalent to the deep ocean ‘abyss’. The firm plans to expose a spirit-filled oak cask to conditions equivalent to 1,000 fathoms (1,830 metres) – nearly ten times deeper than its earlier tests. The team will start with controlled tests…

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Cremated human remains dating from the Iron Age have been discovered during an archaeological excavation at Adie’s Brae near Moffat. The dig was part of the Destination Tweed project’s community-based archaeology programme, Uncovering the Tweed, which is investigating important sites of activity along the River Tweed and in the surrounding area. The cremated remains were…

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Archaeologists have discovered an unexploded mortar shell at Culloden Battlefield, thought to have been fired by government artillery during the Jacobite uprising. The battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746 was a decisive defeat for the Jacobite army, led by Bonnie Prince Charlie, at the hands of the Duke of Cumberland’s government troops. Intact and…

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Cymera, Scotland’s festival of science fiction, fantasy and horror writing will return to the capital once again this June. From Friday 5 – Sunday 7 June sci-fi, fantasy and horror fans will descend on Edinburgh for the eighth time with a weekend packed full of author conversations, panels, workshops and so much more. Like previous…

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Filming has begun on a new series of the hit BBC murder mystery drama Shetland – with Ashley Jensen and Alison O’Donnell returning. Originally based on award-winning novels by crime writer Ann Cleeves, the forthcoming new series centres around an historic murder. When a car is pulled from the water, a grim discovery is made…

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