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A look back at the life of leading Aberdeen-Angus cattleman, Henry Durward, who led the way in the breed's post-war heyday.

An Armed Forces charity has been given £50,000 to support veterans in Glasgow.

A teenager who created an exoskeleton jacket for her cousin has been recognised at COP26 with a major award.

Sign up for our daily newsletter of the top stories in Courier country Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up An Angus project is set to yield a new crop of community gardeners. Raised bed kits have been readied to go out to locals in the Sustainable Kirriemuir scheme and from next week the novices can look forward to a step-by-step guiding hand to avoid the growing pains of their new hobby. There are 50 bedding box...

by Patrick Krause © Shutterstock / SeraphP Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Crofters have long been working in a sustainable way to produce food and environmental benefits. And, as I have pointed out before, it is no coincidence that most of the High Nature Value areas of Scotland correspond with the crofting are...

Helen OKeefe HELEN O’Keefe, from Elphin, Sutherland, has been chosen as the Scottish Crofting Federations Young Crofter of the Year. Chair of the SCF, Donald MacKinnon, said: “We got an extremely high calibre of entrants for this round of the SCF Young Crofter Award, which is generously supported by The MacRobert Trust. It is an inspiration to see young folk doing such a very wide variety of activities on their crofts and they all fully deserve to be recognised for their efforts and ent...