The Viking-style boat reviving traditional skills
As well as practical boat restoration, they learn about wider sustainable technologies, business planning and financial ...
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The Viking-style boat reviving traditional skills
"Bee" is one of the very few remaining Stroma yoles – a small open-decked boat with a planked hull - that once served the now abandoned island ... that arrived on Scotland's shores a millennia ...
Hundreds attend protest against proposed Perth and Kinross library closures
Over 300 campaigners gathered outside Perth Museum on Saturday, January 11 to protest against the proposed closure of five ...
Waterstones CEO James Daunt: ‘We have stubbornly held on in places like Middlesbrough long after M&S left’
In 2011, he was appointed managing director of Waterstones at a time when the chain was in a seeming death loop of forced ...
New code of practice for getting a dog in Scotland
A code of practice for getting a dog is to be drawn up in Scotland under a new law passed by MSPs. The Welfare of Dogs Bill ...
Was Queen Victoria the first influencer? How the ‘media monarch’ shaped the modern world
From white wedding dresses to Christmas trees, Victoria’s personal choices became global trends—long before the age of social ...
BT scraps EV charging point scheme having only installed one
BT has abandoned its scheme to turn green street cabinets into electric vehicle (EV) charging points having completed only one of the 60,000 conversions it initially said it was aiming for. The metal ...
I spent the afternoon drinking Scotch with a North East whisky connoisseur
Lee, who is from Gateshead, travels all over the world in his capacity as a whisky consultant - from China to the Bahamas - ...
SNP 'teeing up' investors to fund a green future for Grangemouth as crunch study due
SNP ministers are “teeing up” investors to help fund a green future for Grangemouth. Potential investors are being lined up to pump funding into Grangemouth's future as a green energy hub, Scotland's ...