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TWO large runaway dogs which randomly attacked at man in north Carlisle as he walked to work were “out to kill,” a court was told.

A MOTORIST was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving after their vehicle was spotted veering all over the shop on the M6.

A MOTORIST was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving after their vehicle was spotted veering all over the shop on the M6.

RSPB Scotland says thousands of barnacle geese on the Solway coast have already died from the disease.

The Scottish government confirms another case in the region after an earlier outbreak among 700 birds.

A 3km protection zone has been imposed around the source of the latest cases near Annan.

A 10km surveillance zone has been set up around the commercial premises in Dumfries and Galloway.

From a Georgian-style mansion in 86 acres in New York to a converted 19th-century coach house in Wiltshire.

A BLACKSMITH has played a major role in the farming and business life of Alasdair Houston, of Gretna House Farms, Gretna Green, in Dumfries-shire – the fourth generation of the family to farm there. While probably best-known globally for owning the Famous Blacksmith Shop and its equally celebrated anvil to conduct thousands of marriages as part of what’s now a major Scottish visitor destination, on the farming side, his Gretnahouse prefix has become a byword for excellence in no fewer t...

Top 10 Things You Probably Never Knew About Witches As the phrase ‘witch hunt’ still shows, the Witch Craze of the early modern period is now an infamous byword for superstition, hysteria and irrational cruelty. Yet witch beliefs and persecutions remain surprisingly misunderstood. When people talk about ‘witch burning Puritans’ for example, they wrongly assume that Puritans killed more witches than did High Anglicans or Catholics, whilst witches were almost never burned in England or Am...