Police will step up patrols in response to complaints over off-road bikes at Kingston and Garmouth. …

A pedestrian killed in a crash on the A96 near Colpy on Friday has been named …

ACTIVE OUTDOORS: Black and blue after taking on the blue route on the Kelpies Trails, John Davidson looks back at a great family fun day on the bikes …

The National has launched a series of billboards raising awareness of the McCrone Report and its aftermath as we focus on Scotland’s energy scandal all this week.  Source

Necropsy – meaning: an examination of a body after death. Today Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed that defence spending will rise to 2.5% of GDP, an additional £13.4bn per year. This means big cuts to other areas of spending, starting with foreign aid spending, which be slashed by billions. Consider this when you are told […] Source

A FABRICATION yard in the Outer Hebrides has won its first major contract since it was taken over by its new Spanish owners … Source

The vast majority of people in Scotland back the continued production of oil and gas, a new poll has found… Source

A MAJOR dairy firm has proposed closing a factory in England and moving production to Scotland which could impact around 150 jobs … Source

A FORMER Aberdeenshire golf course just miles away from Donald Trump’s golf business has been put on the market … Source

I like the idea of Bella as a Sandbox, a lab for ideas, a space where people can run with things and try them out. This has had a few practical examples of writers trying things out that then went on to become fully fledged (& brilliant) books. One such is Dougald Hine who’s a […] Source

Corporate media in Scotland is bland and uniform. Not only is it overwhelmingly, disproportionately male pale and stale (Pass the Mic report that only 2.1% of those quoted or interviewed in the news in Scotland were women of colour) but it represents the same politics over and over again. Right now, below radar a campaign […] Source

The body of an 86-year-old man has been found in Lossiemouth. …

Eight people were left stuck by tides at Findhorn Bay. …