Past Times journalist for DC Thomson Group. Loving digging up the past after many years in news and current affairs.
Steaming in Strathspey on New Year’s Day ā what it’s like aboard Aviemore’s Mince Pie Special
January 4, 2025
Ask A Local: The Clavie King’s 5 favourite things about life in Burghead
December 29, 2024
Meet Dufftown’s local hero ‘The Speirin’s Mannie’ – writer, broadcaster and all-round town legend
December 27, 2024
How women on the Orkney island of Sanday ‘knitted themselves a bathroom’
December 21, 2024
Kinlochleven and South Lochaber tour guide’s top 5 things about life the area
December 20, 2024
60 years wed through thick, thin and even a tsunami: Bill and Dorothy Murdoch of Ballindalloch
December 15, 2024
Former nurse’s extraordinary collection of medical curiosities now at Inverness Museum on display
December 13, 2024
Ask a local: Food, fishing and walking, just a few of the things Zara Gordon Lennox loves about Fochabers
December 12, 2024
Review: What’s not to like about the Liking Chinese in Strathpeffer?
December 8, 2024
ASK A LOCAL: Alvie hotelier Tamasina Cassidy shares her favourite things about life in the Cairngorms National Park
November 23, 2024
Ronnie Watt, Milltimber’s ‘master of masters’, karate instructor for more than 60 years
November 23, 2024
How 30 years as an Aberdeen policewoman inspired Nicky Young to write crime novelĀ
November 22, 2024
Ask A Local: 5 reasons why Nairn writer says it’s an amazing place to live
November 9, 2024
From Dyce to Dunrobin aboard the Northern Belle, a luxury train journey like no other
November 9, 2024
2 Retired Evanton doctor brings history to life with his Roman, Pictish and Viking alter-egos
November 2, 2024
When 100 children attempted to exorcise an Inverness ghost every night for a week
October 31, 2024
North-east mum of nine’s transformational journey of love with her abusive mother
October 26, 2024
Revealed: The intriguing past of old monument near Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
October 24, 2024
Liam Payne: Remembering One Direction’s Aberdeen show in 2011
October 17, 2024
My Weekend: Crofter/publisher Lynn Michell shares what she loves about her weekends in the Outer Hebrides
October 12, 2024
Remembering the tragedy at Carrbridge, near Aviemore when the railway bridge collapsed killing five
October 10, 2024
How teenage love turned into 66 years of marriage for John and Marie Mackenzie, Fyvie
September 28, 2024
The racing Mcwhirters of Elgin, the family behind Decora and the Moray Motor Museum
September 27, 2024
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Ask A Local: Maureen Ross tells us what she loves about the Seaboard Villages of Easter Ross
September 21, 2024