The author contrasts the access rights to land in Scotland and England, highlighting the expansive freedoms granted by the Scottish Land Reform Act (2003) compared to the limitations set by…
The 40th staging of the Highland Cross took place on Saturday, June 22, 2024 – and I was among the 750 or so people lined up at the start in…
Saturday, May 25, 2024 saw the Scottish Orienteering Championships individual races come to Inverness when INVOC hosted the event at Creag Leach. Around 450 competitors ranging in age from around…
A railway once branched off the Edinburgh-Carlisle Waverley line at St Boswells in the Borders and led the ten-and-a-half miles to Kelso. Like so many of these once vital lines,…
The Assynt mountain rescue team covers a huge geographical area incorporating all of Sutherland and Caithness. I spent a day with team in Lochinver as part of a training weekend,…
Like so many other things, the Highland Cross has been absent from the calendar for the last couple of years, meaning the last time the coast-to-coast challenge took place was…
The Loch Ness Challenge is starting to feel like a distant memory, but I’ve had a little time to reflect on my recent ‘three marathons in three days’ along the…
John Davidson