Combine harvesters were the farm vehicles hardest hit by harvest fires, with the number of fires doubling on the previous year. …

PEOPLE in Moray struggling with the cost of living crisis now have a new source of support and advice. …

THE 54-year-old man was stopped in Fochabers "due to the manner of driving" on Sunday. …

FIVE Scottish fish and chip shops have been honoured as the best in the country in prestigious food and drink awards … Source

The Tory meltdown is offering up a roll-call of incompetent, self serving failures, people you’ve never heard of, and people you hoped you’d never hear of again. Such has the party’s shift to the right that people like David Cameron are (re) presented to you as centrists, his actual time in office erased. Down the […] Source

A SCOTTISH manufacturer and online retailer of reusable nappies, swimwear nappies and related accessories has collapsed into liquidation, with all 47 staff made redundant. Source

A few notes on what just happened. Having been gaslit all week by the Tories and their press we are continuing to be gaslit about the events of the last 48 hours. We are being told that – somehow – the largely peaceful protest of between 800,000 and one million people marching to demand peace […] Source

All members of staff at a Scottish firm have been made redundant after the company went into administration. Source

Bella was born out of a realisation that the media in the UK (but particularly in Scotland) was deeply flawed: captured by a handful of millionaires, wholly unrepresentative, deeply biased, and relentlessly representing narrow class and social interests. A new report out showed that there are “dangerous levels of concentrated ownership” in the UK media, […] Source

IT was 1970 when a young Prince Charles addressed a conference about the countryside and condemned “the growing menace of oil pollution at sea” which he said “almost destroys beaches and certainly destroys tens of thousands of seabirds”. Source

POPULAR Japanese clothing brand Uniqlo has unveiled new details about its first Scottish store. Source

Twenty years ago when so many of us were protesting against the looming invasion of Iraq by US/UK forces, a group of us in Edinburgh produced a leaflet with the title ‘Who Needs War?’ Of course, we were thinking of those who profit from war in various ways. Whether politicians who want to look ‘strong’ […] Source

Finlay Macleod of Shawbost and Adabrock has passed away in Stornoway after a remarkable life. He was known as a talented polymath, a champion of gaelic, a historian and a researcher and carrier of invaluable knowledge and tradition. There’s a tribute here and the BBC has run an obituary in Gaelic of Finlay here.  Finlay […] Source