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Spiky lessons for us all from Adam Potter’s 300-metre plunge
Want more pieces on hillwalking and climbing? Consider donating to The Caledonian Mercury The prevailing response to the story of Adam Potter – the 36-year-old...
Unspoilt Hebrides ‘under threat from giant windfarm’
Tiree is known for its surfing beaches and its sunlight but it is the abundance of another natural resource around this tiny Hebridean isle...
When balaclavas were de rigueur
Reading Hamish Macdonell’s thoughts on the decline of a once-common form of headwear set me thinking, given that the Road from Balaklava is one...
Time to reclaim the balaclava from the paramilitaries
Where have all the balaclavas gone? Back in the 1970s, sledging without a balaclava was almost unheard of. I must admit, I had a red...
Refusing to toe the shoe-clad line
By Elizabeth McQuillan One can never have too many shoes. Or can we? On inspection, I possess an impressive array of shoes and boots, all...
Why bike theft is more than just tea and biscuits
As part of the current push towards cost-cutting in public life, the Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales, Louise Casey, this week suggested that...
Hawk on the wild side proves a grand day out
A visit to Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park, just west of Stirling, is one of the better Scottish days out. It’s not pricey...
The dark side of the joy of motorbikes
By Tom Morton Forty years of motorcycling, and I haven’t fallen off once. Now here I am, in the deceptively sloping car park of Bushmills...
Why William Hague would have been better off camping
Amid all the discussion of the William Hague/Christopher Myers/twin beds story, only Stephen McGinty, in the Scotsman, appears to have touched on how utterly...
