Taking 125,000 tonnes of timber off Loch Lomondside thescottishfarmer.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thescottishfarmer.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Updated: July 19, 2021, 11:52 am
Cononish gold mine in Argyll.
Scotland may be on the brink of a gold boom which could create jobs and other economic spin-offs for some of its remotest areas, it has been claimed.
Phil Day, chief executive of Scotgold Resources, the company behind Scotland’s only commercial gold mine, insisted the vision was no pipe dream but based on hard facts.
Conjuring up images of the earliest days of the Klondike Gold Rush, in the late 19th Century, when the precious metal was discovered in a remote area of Yukon in north-west Canada, Mr Day said gold production could be transformative for parts of Scotland.
Bike carriages rolled out on West Highland rail line bbc.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bbc.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Neil Mackay s Big Read: The inside story on how organised crime gangs took over Scotland s illegal trade in puppies
Neil Mackay s Big Read: The inside story on how organised crime gangs took over Scotland s illegal trade in puppies IT’S little wonder that organised crime has moved in on Scotland’s dog trade. Just look at how the price of a puppy has changed in only a few decades. Back in the mid 90s, a pedigree puppy cost around £50, before Covid the price had risen to about £800. Today, it’s around £2000-3000. A kilo of street cocaine comes in at around £40,000 - that’s roughly the price of 10 high-end French bulldog pups. Why deal in drugs when you can deal in dogs?
City of Kamloops has additional emergency accesses in its plans cfjctoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cfjctoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.