Full Colour Street Map of Inverness: Grantown-on-Spey,Aviemore,Beauly - Culloden Fort William
Chris Townsend Outdoors (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Since my post on October 29 about the leaked news that the Scottish government was to give the go ahead to the Beauly-Denny Power Line, which will carve a horrific industrial slash through the Scottish Highlands, the groups forming the Beauly-Denny Landscape Group have called on their members and all those opposed to the line to write to Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First Minister at First.Minister@...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Your editorial (28 October) was fundamentally wrong. The safe, secure and reliable delivery of electricity is vital to every aspect of life within the UK. The power transmission and distribution system underpins modern civilisation. However, to characterise that system as "built quickly and unthinkingly" is misinformed and unfair. For example, the Beauly-Denny proposal has been subject to...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Electricity is invisible; unfortunately the structures that carry it across the country are not. When, in 1928, Sir Reginald Blomfield gave his architectural approval to the six-armed steel monsters that now stalk Britain, the electrification of the country was a national priority. Little thought was given to the route that power lines took, or their ability to drain wildness from the landscape. The...
Perth FM news (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Power lines look set to be approved Reports that the Beauly to Denny Power line looks set to be approved by the Scottish Government has raised concerns for a local politician. Conservative MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife Liz Smith thinks other alternatives may not have been given full consideration and is also worried about environmental and health concerns. The necessary upgrade to the lines will see...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
The go-ahead for a power line from Beauly to Denny is expected to be given shortly by the Scottish government, BBC Scotland understands.
Suitably Despairing (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
The BBC's Politics Show Scotland reported at lunchtime that a decision is to be made this week to allow the controversial Beauly to Denny power line. This is the scheme to upgrade the existing power line running from Beauly in the north of Scotland to Denny in the Central Belt. There's not much argument about the need for the enhanced power lines (although Brian Wilson* did his best on the show)....
Holiday Parks UK (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
The Lodges on Loch Ness are the perfect place to make your base to explore this wonderful part of Scotland. Loch Ness has long since been an area of fascination for obvious reasons and this keeps tourists coming back time and time again, but there is more to this area and it is one of the most beautiful parts of Scotland. Loch Ness can be found in Inverness-Shire and it is the most impressive loch...
The Bluegrass Ireland Blog (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
'Alternative bluegrass' band Crooked Still (USA) are now in the middle of a tour in Europe, which began in Denmark and Sweden. The final leg of the tour began on Wednesday 14 October; it comprises five dates in Scotland and one in northern England, culminating on 21 October with their appearance at the Blazin' in Beauly workshop/concert week (19-23 October) at Beauly, near Inverness in the Scottish...
thequacksoflife (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
There is a project dubbed extreme squirreling whose aim is to seek out red squirrels in parts of the Highlands where few, or no, records exist. The Forestry Commission hold records in core areas but little is known about populations in Sutherland, Caithness, Wester Ross, Morven and Ardnamurchan. This is all to do with protecting "native" Red Squirrels from Grey Squirrels. There will be a...
Perth FM news (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Perth regiments to be honoured by the Fair City It was confirmed yesterday that Perth's local army regiments are to be honoured by the Fair City. Territorial Army regiment 7 Scots will be granted the freedom of the city of Perth, while the Black Watch will parade through Perth on its return from Afghanistan. The Black Watch already has the freedom of the city, having been granted the honour in 1947....
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter (Free subscription) | 15/08/2009
Genealogy Blog:- Historic Scotland suspects a gravestone at Beauly Priory in the Highlands was broken in a "mindless act" of vandalism.
nsl4u (Free subscription) | 13/08/2009
A beautiful run up from Moffat past the Devil's Beef Tub (see it!), along the Tweedsmuir glen (source of that great salmon river Tweed) (hereabouts I believe the sources of the Rivers Clyde and Tweed are only about a mile apart...?) - past the Crook Inn (why') now up for sale as a planning order to maintain it's public house and resting place status, is cast to stop it being developed into another...
po et familiares (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
I'm back from Bonny Scotland after a wonderful holiday ~ only 5 days but truly memorable! This was the furthest north I have ever been ~ and I'm wondering what took me so long! Over 40 people were there to join Ja for his 18th birthday party ~ me, E and J in B&B, nearly 3o in a large house in Nigg and the rest in the wonderful wonderful wonderful Poyntzfield House.. Wow! This house was unbelieveable...
The Green Isle of the Great Deep (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009
Neil Munro's , originally uploaded by ccgd . A window sill in our house, with my collection of early and first editions of Neil Munro's books. www.neilmunro.co.uk/biog.htm Neil Munro is/was Hugh Foulis - the author of Para Handy. Not a bad place to start, for gentle west coast humour. But Munro himself thought that his Foulis persona was for lightweight newspaper stuff, and reserved his serious writing...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 22/02/2009
PLANS for a controversial power line through some of the most scenic parts of Scotland will be delayed by another year unless ministers give it the go-ahead by the end of next
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