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A futuristic sky walkway could be installed on Edinburgh’s Arthur’s Seat to help tackle the risk of rock falls on a currently closed path, although some believe this would be an “excessive and inappropriate” option, it has been reported.
It is one of the options being considered to tackle rock falls at the historic path in Edinburgh.
In the past couple of years, my home country of Scotland has disappointed me in many ways. First, in 2020, the encroachment of American-style "critical social justice" came for David Hume at the University of Edinburgh, where I was then studying. I played a small part in the resistance to the removal of that illustrious name from the campus tower that bore it, to no avail. (Hume’s crime? A 1700s racist footnote.) But that was the least of it: In April 2021, just over a year ago now, the Scottish Parliament passed the Hate Crime Bill so wide-ranging and so censorious that under it y...
Peat soils such as blanket bogs, raised bogs and fens cover nearly a quarter of Scotland’s entire landscape.
Forensic scientists from across Europe gathered in Aberdeen for the ninth meeting of the Animal, Plant and Soil Traces Working Group this week.