Scott Dalgarno News Today

A festival promoting active travel saw a crowd of more than 100 people event in Tornagrain earlier this month.

Business concerns were dismissed but a legal challenge is underway

The developer behind plans for hundreds of new homes on the outskirts of Nairn has bemoaned obstacles placed by Nairn’s Highland councillors.

I woke up underwater. Icy cold. Lungs useless. Instinctively, I kicked and flailed. My backpack, clothes, and boots held me down. Why was I having such a hard time getting to the surface? I didn’t know that I had broken a wrist, cracked my skull, and fractured two vertebrae in my neck. I had been fly-fishing the Pack River in the northern Idaho backcountry with my friend John. The day was warm and sunny; hemlocks with their shaggy boughs arched over the water. Sunlight dappled through the ne...