Ross Hunter

Oct 22, 2024 | thenational.scot | Ross Hunter

A salmon farmer at the Strondoir Bay fish farm at Loch Fyne Scotland. THE largest mass die-off of farmed salmon in Scotland in more than a decade has occurred, with more than a million fish dying in just a year and a half. Two adjacent sites run by Mowi Scotland on Loch Seaforth in the Outer Hebrides, which are licenced as one farm, reported more than a million deaths during a year and a half production cycle that began in spring 2023.

Oct 22, 2024 | thenational.scot | Ross Hunter

Wayne 'Coco' Wharton was arrested for shouting anti-monarchy slogans in Sydney (Image: BBC) A WELL-KNOWN Aboriginal activist has been arrested by police in Sydney for staging a protest against King Charles’s visit to Australia. Wayne ‘Coco’ Wharton stood opposite crowds hoping to catch a glimpse of King Charles and Camilla during their visit to the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday afternoon. However, before the royal couple arrived Wharton began shouting anti-monarchy slogans.

Oct 21, 2024 | thenational.scot | Ross Hunter

A statue of Queen Victoria in Sydney was vandalised ahead of King Charles's visit to the city (Image: Victoria Jones/@MHS_NSW) A STATUE of Queen Victoria in Sydney was defaced with red paint just a few hours before King Charles’s scheduled visit to the city. The statue of the monarch sits outside the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney’s central business district and installed in the 1980s. Police arrived at around 5:30am after receiving reports of the statue being vandalised.

Oct 21, 2024 | thenational.scot | Ross Hunter

Lidia Thorpe interrupts King Charles's speech in the Australian Parliament House (Image: PA) THE senator who interrupted King Charles’s speech in the Australian Parliament House has defended her actions, accusing the monarch of “stealing” land from indigenous people. On Monday, Australia’s first indigenous senator for the state of Victoria, Lidia Thorpe, berated King Charles near the end of his speech in Canberra.

Oct 20, 2024 | thenational.scot | Ross Hunter

King Charles III and Queen Camilla during a tour of the Australian National Botanic Gardens (Image: Chris Jackson) AN anti-monarchy group in Scotland have welcomed an Australian senator's verbal attack of King Charles, saying that it is right for him to be confronted with the "blood-soaked histories" of the royal family. On Monday, Senator Lidia Thorpe interrupted the end of King Charles's speech at Australia's Parliament House in Canberra.