Tag: Heather

Anger as English academic calls for trees to replace Scottish grouse moors

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - January 8, 2012

LANDOWNERS should rip out Scotland’s heather moorland and replace them with forests, according to an English scientist. Sir David Read, an emeritus professor of plant...

Victory for freedom of information

Deadline News Journalist - July 18, 2010

By Cara Sulieman SCOTTISH ministers have backed down in their bid to stop the country’s information commissioner from accessing their files. Lawyers for the government were...

Council blunder plunges residents into the red

Deadline News Journalist - February 1, 2010

By Cara Sulieman A COUNCIL cock-up left many residents out of pocket when their tax payment was taken out of their bank account two days...

Group petition for law to stop future Brandon Muir cases

Deadline News Journalist - November 20, 2009

By Cara Sulieman A GROUP set up in memory of Brandon Muir are to have their child protection petition heard before a committee of the...

Smelly bus stops hit the capital

Deadline News Journalist - July 28, 2009

By Cara Sulieman NOT for nothing was Edinburgh once dubbed Auld Reekie. With the ongoing bin strikes seeing stinking rubbish littering the streets, and rush-hour traffic...