Maureen Sugden

3 weeks ago | heraldscotland.com | Maureen Sugden

The museum aims to keep the story of Dornoch alive (Image: Contributed) A £641,000 museum extension which aims to keep the story of Dornoch alive for both visitors and local people will be officially opened next week. Viscount Thurso, ex chair of Visit Scotland, will cut the ribbon on a new extension to the East Sutherland town’s Historylinks Museum on Saturday, April 5 at 2pm.

1 month ago | heraldscotland.com | Maureen Sugden

Blair Castle, Blair Athol’s distinctive white Castle, the seat of Clan Murray, and additionally the home of the Atholl Highlanders, has outlined an impressive line-up of events for Spring Summer 2025. Re-opening on the 1st of April, after its winter break, the Castle is offering a new exhibition, together with engaging spring and summer foraging events around the estate, held in association with renowned foraging expert, Tamara Colchester.

1 month ago | heraldscotland.com | Maureen Sugden

BAY City Rollers fans have unveiled memorial benches in Princes Street Gardens in the band's home city of Edinburgh. The benches honour founding member Alan Longmuir, who died in July 2018, and lead singer Les McKeown, who died in April 2021.

1 month ago | martini.forestryjournal.co.uk | Maureen Sugden

TEAMS at two leading Scottish gardens, battling to make trees safe in the wake of Storm Éowyn, have been boosted by a little help from their arboricultural friends. A month after gales of up to 100 miles an hour battered Scotland, horticulturists at Benmore Botanic Garden, in Argyll, and Dawyck Botanic Garden, in the Scottish Borders, welcomed offers of help from arboricultural teams arriving from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

1 month ago | heraldscotland.com | Maureen Sugden

TEAMS at two leading Scottish gardens, battling to make trees safe in the wake of Storm Éowyn, have been boosted by a little help from their arboricultural friends. A month after gales of up to 100 miles an hour battered Scotland, horticulturists at Benmore Botanic Garden, in Argyll, and Dawyck Botanic Garden, in the Scottish Borders, welcomed offers of help from arboricultural teams arriving from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.