David and Wilma Finlay’s decades long work to make dairy farming kinder to cows and their calves took on a new urgency when Wilma was diagnosed with cancer. Together they run The Ethical Dairy at Rainton Farm in south west Scotland and make the famous Cream o’...
Wigtown Book Festival, a 10-day celebration of stories and literature, starts this Friday with more than 200 events for every age and interest. They include 45 pay what you can and 30 streamed events, plus many that are free. The nine young adult events are free to...
Take a lyrical journey deep into the starry nights of Galloway or enter the portals of an enchanted bookshop that can reveal untold stories about Scotland’s famous writers. Into the Nicht, a series of night-time walks led by Dark Skies Ranger Elizabeth Tindall and...
Inspired by Wigtown – a campaign was launched last night to establish the rural community of Granard as Ireland’s first ever Book Town. It’s hoped that the 800-strong community in County Longford can reap similar benefits to those experienced by Wigtown, 200 miles...
Back in the 1950s-60s, when winter came to Deception Island in the Antarctic, the small group of scientists based there faced long months of total, freezing darkness. Visitors to this year’s Wigtown Book Festival can step inside a replica refuge hut and glimpse what...
The second annual Music at the Multiverse weekend saw Glasvegas and the Bluebells take the Main Stage while revellers packed the new Dance Tent. Rain showers did nothing to deter the audiences for the opening day of this weekend’s event at the spectacular Crawick...
The fabulous players from The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra (SFO) will be returning to Wigtown, the old stamping ground of one of its founders John Mason MBE, for the first time in 10 years. They will open A Concert for Scotland’s Year of Stories, in the Festival Marquee...
Mallorca Lee (ultra-sonic x Public Domain), Malcolm X and a host of other DJs are gearing up for a mind-blowing weekend in the new Dance Tent at this year’s Music at the Multiverse. At the same time there will be a stellar line up of live bands – from Glasvegas to the...
Any idea how to sex a beaver, or the role of hot water bottles in taking samples of their blood? Since the reintroduction of these marvellous semi-aquatic mammals to Scotland, and elsewhere in the UK, these have become essential skills for Edinburgh-based exotic...
In their masks they take us back to the Trojan War, and the tragic fate of Mighty Hector and his wife Andromache Unmasked they appear on stage as Bea and Alec – an Army officer’s wife facing the trauma of her husband’s declining mental health and the risk of death he...
