Tag: tweed

Brown trout caught three times in one week – and lives to tell the tale

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - May 27, 2016

SCOTLAND'S most fortunate fish was caught and released three times in one week by the same angler. The brown trout was hauled in on the...

Harris mill workers’ relief at reprieve

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - January 22, 2016

WORKERS at a centuries-old mill have expressed their relief at being rescued from the brink of closure. Carloway Mill, one of three Harris tweed mills...

Tweed-clad gang leave man with broken arm following early morning assault

In Brief

Peter Laing - March 9, 2015

A MAN suffered a broken arm and facial injuries after he was attacked by a gang of up to a dozen men, some of...

Coco Chanel inspiration linked to Scotland

Local News

Guest - October 6, 2013

COCO CHANEL was so inspired by a duke’s Scottish wardrobe that she designed the Chanel jacket after it. Gabrielle Coco Chanel was so taken by...

Campbell in a spin over ‘tweed tweet’

Scottish News

Guest - October 4, 2012

FORMER Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell was left red-faced after accidentally tweeting a picture of himself wearing posh hunting clothes. Campbell – who helped Tony...