3 d. ago Police launch manhunt after woman, 32, raped at Loch Lomond National Park

Detectives are appealing for information following the serious sexual assault at a Scottish national park. Police Scotland have launched a manhunt to find the suspect

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3 d. ago I went on a foraging walk at one of Scotland's most picturesque spots

A weekend foraging walk on Scotland’s beautiful west coast makes for an ideal slow Sunday, finds Rosalind Erskine.

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4 d. ago Affordability and looking further afield are key in the Scottish housing market

According to online property portal Zoopla, affordability is shaping more house buying decisions in Scotland, and people are looking further afield to find the right home.

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8 d. ago Worst rent rises in Scotland revealed – are you living in one of the priciest postcodes?

THE priciest postcodes in Scotland for renting have been revealed. Finding a decent rental without breaking the bank is hard to come by. Average rent in Scotland is sitting at an eye-watering £1,140 a month, according to Rightmove. And buying a property is becoming a near impossible prospect for many - with house prices going...

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8 d. ago Canada: order to cull more than 400 ostriches over bird flu fears ruffles feathers

Activists and Trump supporters protest at Universal Ostrich Farms even after 69 birds succumbed to flu-like illnessPolice have warned that the growing furore around a Canadian ostrich farm – fanned by animal rights activists and prominent allies of Donald Trump – has led to intimidation, harassment and death threats against businesses in a small British Columbia town.Universal Ostrich Farms, near the town of Edgewood, was ordered in May to cull more than 400 birds, amid fears of an outbreak of H5N1 avian flu, and earlier this week officials seized control of the business. Sixty-nine birds have already died after the outbreak of a flu-like illness, but on Wednesday Canada’s supreme court issued an interim stay on the cull order as it weighed whether to hear the case. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Canada: order to cull over 400 ostriches sparks death threats for local businesses

Activists and Trump supporters protest at Universal Ostrich Farms even after 69 birds succumbed to flu-like illnessPolice have warned that the growing furore around a Canadian ostrich farm – fanned by animal rights activists and prominent allies of Donald Trump – has led to intimidation, harassment and death threats against businesses in a small British Columbia town.Universal Ostrich Farms, near the town of Edgewood, was ordered in May to cull more than 400 birds, amid fears of an outbreak of H5N1 avian flu, and earlier this week officials seized control of the business. Sixty-nine birds have already died after the outbreak of a flu-like illness, but on Wednesday Canada’s supreme court issued an interim stay on the cull order as it weighed whether to hear the case. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Canada: order to cull over 400 ostriches sparks protests and death threats

Activists and Trump supporters protest at Universal Ostrich Farms even after 69 birds succumbed to flu-like illnessPolice have warned that the growing furore around a Canadian ostrich farm – fanned by animal rights activists and prominent allies of Donald Trump – has led to intimidation, harassment and death threats against businesses in a small British Columbia town.Universal Ostrich Farms, near the town of Edgewood, was ordered in May to cull more than 400 birds, amid fears of an outbreak of H5N1 avian flu, and earlier this week officials seized control of the business. Sixty-nine birds have already died after the outbreak of a flu-like illness, but on Wednesday Canada’s supreme court issued an interim stay on the cull order as it weighed whether to hear the case. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Bird flu: 'Concerning' finding among Scotland seabirds that have survived avian flu, after Bass Rock studies

The impact of bird flu on locations such as Bass Rock has been revealed.

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1 week ago Best hidden gem foraging spots in Scotland to find free food this autumn

Scotland's coastlines and woodlands are full of edible treasures in autumn, making it one of the best times of year to explore

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1 week ago ‘Never fails to delight’: why Metallica: Some Kind of Monster is my feelgood movie

The next in our series of writers celebrating their most rewatched comfort films is an ode to the scrappy 2004 music documentaryThe year is 2001. Thrash pioneers and stadium mainstays Metallica have been in the doldrums for half a decade; the grungey, hard rock gristle of their last two records, Load and Reload, and reconfiguration as short-haired, eyeliner-wearing Anton Corbijn muses have alienated them from their headbanger OG fans; inter-band relations are at a low ebb and longtime bassist Jason Newsted has jumped. Meanwhile, the tectonics of the heavy music landscape are shifting around them – the solipsistic dirge of nu-metal now energising the disenfranchised youth of America. It’s time for a rebirth.Regrouping in San Francisco, singer and guitarist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and determinatively named producer Bob Rock hole up in a makeshift studio in the Presidio and set to relocating the old garage-band spark that gave birth to albums as...

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1 week ago Studio used by Hendrix, Bowie and the Stones to reopen after decades silent

Exclusive: Regent Sounds recording studio in London to be turned into landmark site for rock’n’roll, jazz and bluesThe Regent Sounds recording studio on “Tin Pan Alley” in London was famously used by Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and the Rolling Stones between the 1960s and early 1980s. Now, having been walled up and lain silent for decades, it is being brought back to life through a multimillion-pound investment that will turn it into a landmark site for rock’n’roll, jazz and blues, the Guardian has learned.Much of the original walls, floor tiles and recording equipment have been preserved from a studio that Pete Townshend, The Who’s guitarist and songwriter, once described as “a massive chunk of rock music history”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Archaeology student finds rare stone carving in Scotland that may show Pictish face

According to historians East Lomond hill fort and nearby settlement made southernmost parts of the Pictish kingdom in what is now Scotland.

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2 w. ago Student unearths rare stone that shows face carving from almost 2,000 years ago

Jodie Allan made the finding while digging in Fife, Scotland

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2 w. ago Student unearths rare stone that shows face carving of a Pict from almost 2,000 years ago

Jodie Allan made the finding while digging in Fife, Scotland. It’s more evidence that the area ‘was an important Pictish settlement’, her professor says

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2 w. ago Survey highlights challenges faced by Lanarkshire residents when heating homes

The findings come from Scotland-based social enterprise Changeworks which provided energy-saving advice and measures.

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2 w. ago Brits facing Christmas turkey shortage thanks to bird flu and summer drought

Shoppers who do get their hands on a bird face forking out more for the festive fowl due to the shortage, said catering supply experts

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3 w. ago Walkers could find chunks of meteorite that exploded over Scotland

A group of researchers has tracked the meteor's path and says fragments could be scattered in several locations

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3 w. ago Hillwalkers urged to look out for meteorite fragments after summer fireball

Hillwalkers have a "very exciting" opportunity to find meteorite fragments which scattered over Scotland this summer, researchers have said.

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3 w. ago ‘A tantalising mystery’: could I find the standing stone on a Scottish island from a childhood photo?

My mum gave me an old picture of me sitting on the cairn on Islay when I was 11. Forty years later, I set out to find itI don’t remember the picture being taken. Somewhere in Scotland, sometime in the 1980s. It has that hazy quality you get with old colour prints: warm but also somehow melancholy. I’m wearing blue jeans, white trainers, an army surplus jumper – and am perched on a standing stone.My mum gave me the photo when I turned 50. She found it up in the loft. Some of these childhood pictures, souvenirs of trips with my grandparents to historic sites, have the place names written on the back. This one was blank, a tantalising mystery. Though I didn’t recognise the location, something about the landscape and quality of light suggested it was Islay, an island I’d visited just once – when I was not quite 12. So I decided to see if I could find the spot, slipped the photograph into my notebook and set off. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago FDA warning over raw pet food after cat euthanized with bird flu

Certain lots of RAWR Raw Cat Food Chicken Eats were contaminated with the H5N1 virus

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