Christopher Brookmyre

Bloody Scotland crime writing festival to take place in Stirling

A CELEBRATION of crime writing is set to come to Scotland this week.Read

Stone a day for rural slimmers

A BALFRON slimming group has been celebrating its first year in operation – having lost a stone in weight for every one of the 365 days of its existence.Read

Feature: retail regeneration project launched in Stirling

STIRLING city centre was abuzz with activity during the official launch of a new project designed to find creative solutions in the battle to save the nation’s high streetsRead

Feature: retail regeneration project launched in Stirling

STIRLING city centre was abuzz with activity during the official lauch of a new project designed to find creative solutions in the battle to save the nation’s high streetsRead

Keith Graham’s Country View

IT WAS a close encounter of a feathered kind that took me back to childhood days and to the very birds that kick-started my life-long passion for all creatures great and small.Read

Keith Graham’s Country View

A BRIEF relocation – a holiday – took me to the land of the eagles, to the north west Highlands where sea, sand and horizons of jagged peaks provide a landscape unmatched in my view at least, anywhere in the world.Read

Keith Graham’s Country View

THEY could have been mistaken for an armada of invading ships as they drifted across the loch, necks erect – a forest of masts perhaps?Read

Keith Graham’s Country View

HIGH upon the hill, among the brackens, the heathers and the bents, new life abounds. New Monarchs of the Glens to be have come into the world in all their innocence.Read

Keith Graham’s Country View

SUDDENLY it is increasingly a time for the young ones. Flotillas of mallard ducklings paddling frantically in the wake of their mothers pattern the loch’s otherwise unruffled surface.Read

Keith Graham’s Country View

A spokesman for gamekeepers said it is like somebody going into a supermarket, picking up what they want and walking off without paying then not being charged with the crime. It is nothing like that at all. It is like filling up all the streets with candy and letting the kids loose on it.Read

Keith Graham’s Country View

THE jungle drums are beating! Almost everywhere I go I hear them, resonant and insistent.Read

Celebrities backing Sandra’s campaign

A STIRLING-born owner of a global tanning brand has launched a campaign in a bid to cut skin cancer rates.Read

Keith Graham’s Country View

THE darling buds of May have thus far been cringing before the Arctic blast of northerly winds which have depressed temperatures and, as far as I have seen, put the brakes on the migratory ambitions of most of our martins and swallows.Read

Keith Graham’s Country View

WITH high winds and rain battering much of England and Wales, it comes as little surprise that thus far, incoming swallows have been noticeable by their absence.Read

Save Your Skin

Celebrity packed Fake Bake Glitz and Glamour Ball to take place in Glasgow this month

A STAR-STUDDED, celebrity packed ball will happen in Glasgow this month to raise much needed cash for charity.Read

Keith Graham’s Country View

TYPICAL April! A peppering of showers in between those little spells of encouraging sunshine together with more snow on the hills – the snowline has been going up and down the Ben like a yo-yo – have been the hallmarks of the month thus far.Read

Walk in the steps of Mary, Queen of Scots

A NEW coast to coast walk linking up many places associated with Mary, Queen of Scots was a labour of love for Kilmahog’s Paul Prescott.Read

Feature: Nick has splashing time during Thai New Year

NICHOLAS BURTON is a teacher living and working in Sisaket, a city in Thailand’s Issan region.Read

Walk in the steps of Mary, Queen of Scots

A NEW coast to coast walk linking up many places associated with Mary, Queen of Scots was a labour of love for Kilmahog’s Paul Prescott.Read

Keith Graham’s Country View

IMAGES of springtime are many and varied. Watching a phalanx of lambs charging up and down my paddock – eleven lambs (as opposed to lords!) a leaping – fully brought home the verve and joy that is surely the very essence of spring.Read