Achallader News Today

HAVING survived the embarrassment of a "no confidence" vote, it seems that Circularity Minister Lorna Slater has every intention of…

Resurfacing on part of the A82 in the Highlands next month will see parts of the route closed overnight, meaning drivers will be faced with a 23-mile detour.

Nevis Hill Walking Club.

A shortened version of our columnist Tim Porteus’s new book, Road of Legends, is exclusively serialised each week in the Courier. Here is the next…

Geograph - photograph every grid square South of Rannoch Moor A walk from Achallader, Sat, 6 May 2000 by Nigel Brown These two Munros are high spots of the line of hills forming the southern boundary of Rannoch Moor. Taken together they make a long but attractive walk which also includes some lower summits. I parked at Achallader farm and set off south, over the railway and up the glen which lies between Beinn an Dothaidh and Beinn Achaladair, to the col at its head. A long and pleasant ridge w...

Andrew Wilson’s Growth report predicted at least 10 years before a new currency could be established ROBIN McAlpine gives the example of converting vending machines to accept new coins to suggest that the issues that would have to be overcome by an independent Scotland are not difficult ("Independence would not be easy but Scots could pull it off", The Herald, December 11). It is a very strange example, particularly in an increasingly cashless society. He uses this example to support his pr...