As part of our mini-tour on Sunday we managed to take in one of Scotlands spookiest roads, the Electric Brae near Ayr. We stopped the car to check if we were in the right place and immediately started going uphill! It was named ‘Electric Brae’ in the 19th century when people thought the phenomenon was […]
Is this the premise for the latest Dan Brown thriller? Maybe it is the location of a vast Jacobite treasure horde or maybe even the secret of how Sean Connery delivered milk to half of Edinburgh every morning. So what is this great secret… Well in the words of the most recent advert, ‘It’s Fizzy, […]
Curtains that once hung in Culloden House have been purchased by Matthew Donnachie, who belongs to the historic society ‘A Circle of Gentlemen’. They may even have hung in the bedroom used by Bonnie Prince Charlie on the night before the Battle of Culloden. A piece of the tartan has been framed and is being […]
The year of Homecoming is upon us, when expats and people from abroad with Scottish blood return to their homeland to celebrate all things Scottish. But 217 years ago, the Government were doing quite the opposite, Scots were being banished from their homeland, threatened with execution if they refused. Amid the backdrop of […]
This week saw Britain’s oldest mother give birth at 66 a story trumped in the animal kingdom by a Scottish Osprey. Scotland’s oldest and most prolific osprey mother has hatched her 45th and 46th chick. This amazing bird travels around 3,000 miles every year from Arica to Loch of the Lowes Wildlife Reserve, near Dunkeld. […]
For Scottish daredevil cat Charlie, walls are no obstacle – he scales the two-storey wall of his owner’s home to get back inside. His gravity-defying antics have earned him the nickname “Spider-cat”. And the seven-year-old cat has now become something of a local celebrity among neighbours in Denny, near Falkirk. Celebrity cat owner Hannah Smith […]
Homecoming’s main event – ‘The Gathering’ has come under attack when it issued a ban on all whisky products citing a conflict of interest with one of it’s main sponsors Diageo. This action has angered the smaller distileries who say the orgainsers of The Gathering and Homecoming have going against their original promise of promoting […]
The trams could be hit by yet another delay, but this time it was the grizzly discovery of at least 25 skeletons in one of the busy main roads in Leith. The remains are believed to date back to the 16th Century and are of men women and children. Archaeologists are now thinking that the graveyard […]
A couple and their 3 children were having a family day out at Duffus Castle on Easter Sunday when they caught sight a large panther-like black beast prowling out of the woodland. Craig and Angela from Lossiemouth managed to capture the cat on film. Craig commented: “I have three house cats, so I know […]
