Tag: highland

Athletic icon nurse disciplined for harming elderly patients

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - December 17, 2014

A SCOTTISH nurse regarded as one of the best fell runners in the world has been disciplined for physically hurting and humiliating elderly patients. Colin...

Meeshahanagit-trala! Inverness lost lingo featured in new dictionary

Scottish News

Peter Laing - December 3, 2014

A HIGHLANDER who lived in London for 40 years has produced a hilarious dictionary of Inverness words and phrases. Rab MacWilliam, a former executive with...

Seal skin ban halts sale of traditional sporrans

Deadline News Journalist - September 12, 2010

By Zoe Keown ONE OF the first words that comes to mind when you think of the Scottish sporran is traditional. But as an EU ban...

Hastings and Gunnell hunt Loch Ness Monster victory

Local News

Deadline News Journalist - July 19, 2010

By Michael MacLeod RUGBY and running stars Gavin Hastings and Sally Gunnell have unveiled their plans to run a 120km relay duathlon around Loch Ness. The...

Tilda Swinton says Oscar funded arts project

Deadline News Journalist - June 20, 2010

By Zoë Keown SCOTTISH actress Tilda Swindon has admitted that her Hollywood bonus for winning an Oscar saved her festival venue. Swinton, 49, who won an...