New land added to Highland reserve famous for its ospreys

A Highland nature reserve famed as a home for ospreys has been expanded - 50 years after the protected area was created. In ...

An uninhabited Scottish isle is home to the golden granite used in Olympic curling stones

The island of Ailsa Craig, where the two types of granite, Common Green and Blue Hone, that are used to make curling stones ...

PHOTO ESSAY: Scottish island Ailsa Craig is the granite source for Olympic curling stones

Ailsa Craig is an uninhabited isle off the coast of southwest Scotland and the source of the super-dense granite used to make ...

Property linked to 125-year-old lighthouse mystery to be restored

A community group is to restore a historic building linked to the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers 125 years ago. Thomas Marshall, James Ducat and Donald McArthur vanished from the ...