Sandra Dick

Built to serve a golden age of rail travel, station hotels tell their own story of days gone by.

Tipsy and glugging heartily from a booze filled ox horn, eyes bulging and with a ‘hands-free’ approach to steering his mount, he’s a very merry pickled Pict on a rather despondent pony.

Creamy white sails billowing in the Irish breeze, the glossy wooden hull of a grand old Scottish yacht skimmed across the surface of the River Lee; the final push in a daring cross sea journey.

There are four slowly dying wounded victims, a perplexing mystery that seems to be taking root and whispers swirling on the breeze over ‘whodunnit’ and why.

They were built as grand nature palaces for wealthy Victorians to show off collections of towering palm trees, juicy pineapples and exotic orchids in year-round tropical warmth.

An archaeological survey that aims to identify medieval and pre-medieval remains in the fields surrounding Contin Parish Church in the Highlands.

: My little pony: endangered Eriskay ponies are being brought back to work to rewild a corner of Scotland.

In the grand surroundings of an Edinburgh New Town townhouse – far from the majestic mountains and pristine landscape of the Cairngorms - frustration was beginning to mount.

The 4,000 year old woman – who looks a little like Victoria Beckham - helping to tell the story of Scotland’s most mysterious glen.

From Rosyth to the bottom of the sea – new hunt begins for Poland’s hero sub.