After a difficult year, we know for sure this festive season will be different. There might be reasons to struggle, but there is also good news. In this edition, we’ll get tips to improve our wellbeing and we’ll support local businesses, local authors and musicians in our Christmas shopping. The heritage pages look back at local links with slavery in Guyana, and we’ll delve deep into the stories of two sets of brothers who fought in both world wars. We will remember Pat, the Irishman and his two horses. Not to be missed is the interview with the outstanding photographers Bryan & Cherry Alexander.
There’s no denying that it’s been a tough year and with darker nights and colder weather December through to April can be a difficult time […]
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This festive season, if you are struggling with mental health issues, there is support available for you over the phone.
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The club -reinstated in 2018- has exciting plans to update the clubhouse facilities. What memories does the name Bonar Bridge Football Club bring back for
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Farmers who use regenerative agriculture techniques accept that wildlife will share some of our harvest with us
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Hedgehogs in the Highlands have found new friends in Adrian and Nicky Knight who have created Highland Hedgehogs. With numbers on the decline the hedgehogs’
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We had great fun with the many online events that we wouldn’t have been able to attend if we’d had to travel. Some key events
In Guyana’s Berbice region, a handful of interrelated families from the north Highlands were the first to build sugar-cane plantations.
Rosehall links with slavery Read More »
Two world wars. Two war memorials. Two sets of siblings. Two Highland families: The Gordons and The Macleans.
W. A. M. MacKenzie remembers this local character and his horses, two big working Clydesdales used for clearing timber from the nearby forest
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