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OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan provides humanitarian aid to Uzbek labour migrants abroad Format On 5 February, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz), John MacGregor handed over personal protection equipment and humanitarian aid to the Deputy Director of the Agency for External Labour Migration under the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Hojiakbar Fayzullahodjayev. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Uzbek labour migrants in Kazakhstan and in the Russian Federation found themselves in difficult situations due to layoffs and having to...

By Hamish MacPherson Glen Fruin, between Gare Loch and Loch Lomond, saw one of the bloodiest clan battles ever fought IT was on this date in 1603 that one of the bloodiest and certainly one of the most one-sided of all clan battles was fought between Clan MacGregor and Clan Colquhoun in Glen Fruin, which lies between Loch Lomond and the Gare Loch. Nowadays the Glen contains the A817 which is the upper route to the nuclear submarine base at Faslane. And for convenience sake I will refer to the clan as MacGregor, though I know there we...

The revelation came in confidential documents released as part of the 1990 State Archives. One document revealed Taoiseach Charles Haughey had directed senior civil servant Dermot Nally to ask the British Ambassador Nicholas Fenn to call to see him on September 20, 1990, over alarm in Dublin at remarks made by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The Government felt the prime minister’s remarks somehow hinted there was Irish responsibility for what had happened. Mrs Thatcher had launched a scathing reproach on the “evil” attacks by the IRA on her friend Ian Gow MP as well as retired Air C...

A small fold of black Highland cattle enjoying the sunset over Loch Awe, near Dalmally. They are part of the much larger Cladich fold of Highlanders belonging to Jon and Queenie Strickland, and are running with Balach Dubh of Craigowmill, an aged bull bou UK GOVERNMENT officials need to wake up to the severity of the threat posed by African swine fever and enforce stricter biosecurity measures. This message came at the start of October, from pig farmer and chair of NFU Scotland’s pigs committee, Jamie Wyllie, who has criticised the powers that be for failing to prepare the country for a d...

£70 million waste incinerator green-lit for Perthshire creating 230 jobs © Kenny Smith Chairman John MacGregor, Chief executive Allan MacGregor and John Ferguson at the location of new £60m incinerator at Binn Farm. Sign up for our daily newsletter of the top stories in Courier country Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A £70 million waste incinerator has been green-lit for rural Perthshire after a decade long wait, creating 230 jobs. Binn Group was granted permission to build the plant at its Glenfarg ba...