Letter from Edinburgh
The National Centre for Excellence in Traditional Music is based at Plockton High School on the west coast, two hours drive from Inverness.
READ FULL STORYThe National Centre for Excellence in Traditional Music is based at Plockton High School on the west coast, two hours drive from Inverness.
READ FULL STORYI’m composing these words on Tuesday afternoon before heading out to Up-Helly-A’ with squad number 18.
READ FULL STORYI went to Oldham for a day this week. There’s a by-election! All the parties are asking their supporters for help. A great Liberal, Cyril
READ FULL STORYYou wouldn’t believe the size of the pile of Amazon and Play.com boxes in the Lerwick Post Office. Actually you would. I guess it’s a
READ FULL STORYApart from the de-icer boom falling on a plane at Sumburgh at the beginning of the week, our airport has done a good job keeping
READ FULL STORYWhose idea was it to have both the Food Festival and the Craft Fair last weekend? It worked.
READ FULL STORYWe debated aircraft carriers being built on the Clyde and Firth of Forth, the Nimrod base at RAF Kinloss in Morayshire and the merits of
READ FULL STORYNext to the Fraser Peterson Centre at Mossbank, something new is emerging from the soil and it’s not just grass.
READ FULL STORYA big thank you to the Fair Isle Primary School pupils. Last week they grilled me on what I do and why. A perfectly reasonable
READ FULL STORYParliament is not formally back in business quite yet. But having not been near the Holyrood office for five weeks, the day dawned when it
READ FULL STORYBressay is having a lively debate. No, not fixed links. We will be pushing up daisies before that one re-emerges. No, not the splendid new
READ FULL STORYBell’s Brae Primary occasionally has a lot to answer for! Cameron came home from school one Friday late last year and decreed that he wanted
READ FULL STORYI’ve often wondered why we are all convinced by the computer and IT industry to buy a shiny new laptop and accompanying “new” software every
READ FULL STORYI’m writing this after buying a cup of coffee and a chocolate bar in the parliamentary canteen. I needed a caffeine burst to encourage the
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