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MV Dayspring, aka the 'Corpach Wreck' or 'Old Boat of Caol', sits on the shore of Loch Linnhe. Picture: Getty AS is tradition in Scottish lore, our story begins on a storm-lashed night when something unexpected emerged from the dark waves. In this case, the residents of Corpach and neighbouring Caol, near Fort William, awoke on a wintry December morning in 2011 to discover the former fishing boat MV Dayspring sitting at a jaunty angle on the shingled shoreline of Loch Linnhe. Almost a decade later, it has never left. At first glance, the leaning, ever-so-slightly recumbent pose gives ...

As chairwoman of a charity that helps people realise the life-changing benefits of getting outside, Claire takes the extra few hundred miles.

Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall, However,  rest assured that access to all Covid related news will still remain free. To access all other news will require a subscription, as it did pre-pandemic. The good news is tha...

Updated: April 18, 2021, 2:19 pm © The Outward Bound Trust via Gett The Royal Standard and Scottish and Outward Bound Trust flags are flown on top of Ben Nevis in tribute to the Duke of Edinburg Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A charity has gone to great lengths – and heights – to pay tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh, its patron for nearly 70 years. Instructors from The Outward Bound Trust scaled the UK’s thr...

© Supplied by Major B Varvill Duke of Edinburgh. on board the boat Diligent. Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Previously unseen images of The Duke of Edinburgh during his schooldays at Gordonstoun have been released today ahead of his funeral. The images were taken by the great-uncle of a former student who contacted the school following the duke’s death. They show him in 1937, sailing one of Gordonstoun’s boats ...