The Maggie Wall will visit Elgin Town Hall on Wednesday, October 25. …

A SCOTTISH community has reacted after a much-loved local cafe announced its closure … Source

Let’s clear the smoke of confusion: Vaping saves smokers’ lives Source

THE owner of Scotland’s other national drink, Irn-Bru, has taken over another well known drinks brand … Source

WORKERS at Scottish Water could go on strike after pay talks failed. Source

AN award-winning Scottish bakery is preparing to open its new store to local residents. Source

Paul Tritschler’s longform essay on hope and despair… The old man always made one room presentable. Apart from the milkman, the meter man, the insurance man, or indeed me (a neighbourhood message boy), there was rarely a visitor, but it was nevertheless his routine before opening the front door to close all others to conceal […] Source

The storms raging across Scotland are a reminder of our fragility to the natural world, or more particularly the unnatural one we’ve created. It’s become a cliche to talk of ‘climate change becoming real’, or ‘coming home’. but here it is. Here are your flash-floods, your landslides and sand-bags, your power-cuts and transport-system collapse. Here […] Source

One of our neighbours kindly invited us around to dinner, welcoming us newcomers to Shetland’s Westside. After a lovely meal, her 11 year old son invited me to a game of chess and I accepted with every intention of letting him win. But somehow, deep cultural conditioning took over and I beat him. Twice. Raised […] Source

WESTON View, which recently became part of the Parklands Care Homes group, is seeking volunteers to help provide more activities for residents. …

MORE authors have joined calls for the Scottish investment bank Baillie Gifford to cut ties with the fossil fuel industry. Source

DISABLED people are being hit doubly hard by cost-of-living crisis, a equalities charity has warned. …