Inspirational businesswoman who was part of the family firm. …

HOMEOWNERS in Moray’s conservation areas have been encouraged to apply for a grant to repair or reinstate their traditional windows. …

PROTESTORS gather outside RAF Lossiemouth to send message to UK Government. …

The scenes from Niddrie last night may have shocked many, but the pearl-clutching or condemnation won’t make them go away. Such banal dialogue about ‘banning fireworks’ – or sending in the riot police won’t ‘disappear’ the alienation that many young people in communities experience. Despite the media coverage this isn’t a phenomenon unique to Niddrie, […] Source

THE UK Government is set to ramp up oil and gas extraction with new plans to hold annual licencing rounds – in a “final raid” on Scotland’s fossil fuels. Source

THE greater the challenge, the bigger the response should be. Yet recent policy announcements from Labour send a very different message … Source

THE Easdale brothers have gained planning approval for a new £15 million housing development on the site of the former Tate & Lyle sugar refinery in Greenock Source

AN award-winning and “well-performing” Scottish pub has hit the market … Source

THE number of Scottish businesses going into insolvency has jumped by a fifth year-on-year, according to analysis … Source

A REPORT will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal in due course. …

BLADES have been lifted onto turbines at what will become the UK’s largest consumer-owned wind farm in south-west Scotland … Source

Ten high-flying facts. …

As you read this another NATO war fleet has assembled off the North West coast of Sutherland. George Gunn writes: “There are 19 vessels – warships and submarines – from 10 countries participating and firing live ordinance at the lonely sea stack known as An Garbh Eilean, just off Cape Wrath. In addition there are […] Source

The 1st of November is Samhain, the end of the harvest season and the first day of Winter in the old Celtic calendar. It is also the time when the dead rise out of the ground and walk among the living. It is a time when boundaries and dimensions dissolve and there is no separation […] Source