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TWO long-established holiday parks on the Moray Firth have been acquired as their owner retires.

Today's COP26 briefing includes The Colour of the Climate Crisis exhibition and an artwork designed to highlight links between climate change and colonisation.

Waterways Ireland Confirms Plans to Sell Off Grand Canal Graving Docks 20th February 2021 File image of Naomh Éanna at the heritage graving docks in Grand Canal Basin The inland waterways authority says it is “currently considering a range of options” regarding the sale of the site, which is one of the last undeveloped land parcels of the Docklands Strategic Development Zone. Four years ago, suggestions that Waterways Ireland had been planning to sell what’s regarded as a key piece of the canal basin’s Georgian architecture prompted a local activist group to appeal to the then Heri...

Updated Lloret MacKenna Dunn out location hunting in the Highlands. “One of the things I love about my job is that I am in so many different spaces. Whether landscape or urban environment or domestic setting, it is just a joy to stand in differing spaces, spaces I wouldn’t normally have access to had I not worked in this industry.” With 25 years of industry experience, her credits include T2 Trainspotting, World War Z, Fast & Furious 6, Outlaw King, Doomsday, Stag, Patrick Melrose, The Jacket and Sea of Souls, her favourite locations include Luss Estates, the impressive backdrop in The...

FOR years the last iron-hulled four-masted sailing ship of her kind has languished in foreign waters, embroiled in a wrangle over her ownership and upkeep while her hull has slowly rotted. It might have been far easier to drag the Falls of Clyde out of Honolulu Harbour to be scuttled at sea. Instead, in a remarkable display of passion for her once graceful lines, deep pride in her Scottish roots and sheer determination it seems the Port Glasgow-built vessel is now within touching distance of what would be a triumphant return to the waters of the Clyde. According to David O’Neill, wh...