They come from a pipe band Down Under!

With the Piping Inverness event over the weekend I wanted to share this article purely for the headline which I… Read more They come from a pipe band Down Under!

Meeting your heroes

One of the perks of the job is that you get to interview famous people and those who you admire.… Read more Meeting your heroes

It was good to see the return of Piping Inverness earlier today after its enforced two-year absence due to the… Read more Piping Inverness

Today is Armed Forces Day and it is a well established annual event but, back in April 2009, I got… Read more The very first Armed Forces Day

I was reminded of this saga when a friend’s local bar was targeted by the police, who linked nearby incidents… Read more Petition to save popular nightclub

Ever since the Watergate investigation of the 1970s any major story is suitably christened with the word gate tagged on… Read more Toongate

In the trade we call it babysitting and on this occasion it was literally just that. A Sunderland woman had… Read more ‘I’ll spoil my little miracle’

With these articles I managed to namecheck the Led Zeppelin rock god Jimmy Page and infamous occultist Aleister Crowley. I… Read more Mystery of box it was claimed to be from Boleskine House

Workers were all set to start felling a threatened beech tree in a North Yorkshire village but before they could… Read more A very English protest

I have followed this project over recent months and it was good to see how it progressed and took this… Read more Development of the River Ness hydro project