Maggie Ritchie

Masterchef finalist Sarah Rankin recalls memories in the kitchen of her Inverness home helping her mother cook in new book Kith.

It's Scotland’s remotest restaurant, perched on a tiny Hebridean island measuring just two miles across.

INDEPENDENT bookshops have entered a new chapter

THE Western Isles attracts more than 200,000 visitors a year, many of them eager to see the ancient stone circle at Callanish and the white sands and turquoise sea of Luskentyre beach, named one of the best in the world. But there is so much more to this archipelago, as travel writer Brigid Benson reveals in her new book, Hebridean Journey, which uncovers the secret treasures of the Outer Hebrides.

THE mild-mannered Rev Richard Coles must have been taken by surprise when he caused a Twitter storm by posing a seemingly innocuous question.

HAPPY childhood memories of trips “doon the watter” to Rothesay inspired best-selling Scottish crime writer Craig Robertson’s latest thriller.

I attempted, as we are urged to by many a lifestyle magazine and TV programme, to declutter my wardrobe this week but only succeeded in getting rid of one tired shirt. As I took down the hangers and looked at each item of clothing they stubbornly refused to “spark joy” as recommended by the Japanese neat freak Marie Kondo. I couldn’t get rid of them all so put everything back and shut the door.

I ALWAYS remember at this time of year my dad teasing my mum that she would be ‘washing the coals’ next during the big Hogmanay house clean up.

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STROKE patients with speech problems are being short changed by the current system and are not receiving nearly enough therapy, according to a Scots academic.