Robert Veitch News Today

Readers discuss Mr. Musk’s takeover and his decision to let Donald Trump back. Also: A climate negotiator; too much Trump; red states, blue states.

Jaw-dropping levels of fraud.

The Queen has lived through many changes during her seventy-year reign. Robert Veitch looks back through time and reports on events that have happened during the Queen’s royal timeline, both locally and worldwide.

Background? I was born and bred at Netherhall, in Largs ... milking cows with my parents and brother, Alistair. I knew it was my passion from a young age and left school at the age of 16 to study agriculture at Auchincruive. I wanted to gain experience, so I landed myself a herdsman job at Walter Hogarths, at Knockrivoch, in Saltcoats, for six years milking 180 Friesians and Montbeliardes. I learnt a lot there about herd and grassland management. In 2004, my wife, Margo and I – with a l...

In early 1989 he was known as Travers Martin-Beynon and was just 16 years old when he achieved a lifelong dream of being drafted into the VFL. The teenager was the No. 4 pick that year and was taken by North Melbourne after impressive play in the Teal Cup carnival. But a serious pre-season back injury, which included a broken vertebra, forced him onto the injured list and he played no senior games for the club across the two years he was a part of the organisation. Beynon was traded to the ...