Past Times journalist for DC Thomson Group. Loving digging up the past after many years in news and current affairs.
As Thunder in the Glens revs up for 2024, see if you can spot yourself in our photo gallery of years gone by
August 22, 2024
Local Hero: James Campbell has been a force behind Beauly village life for six decades
August 17, 2024
REVIEW: The Sound of Music at Eden Court, Inverness
August 15, 2024
Confessions of a 70s teenager who reluctantly found himself running a Far North Line station
August 11, 2024
2 WATCH: Titanic’s whistles recreated by Oldmeldrum steam engineers at Nairn show
August 3, 2024
From crofting on Benbecula to touring with Lynyrd Skynyrd, meet the band’s #1 fan and confidant
July 20, 2024
The forgotten life of Hebridean crofting as told by Ena, 84, season by season
July 13, 2024
Revisiting the fading glory of one man’s dream, the Inverness Titanic
July 12, 2024
GALLERY: When Queen Elizabeth delighted crowds with a walkabout in Inverness, 1985… do you see anyone you know?
June 28, 2024
1972: When hoaxers faked the death of Raasay’s infamous absentee landlord ‘Dr No’
June 24, 2024
1965: Joy as Calum Kennedy buys the Tivoli Theatre
June 10, 2024
D-Day: The surprising role of Moray and Easter Ross in the liberation of France
June 5, 2024
1994: The Brutal shooting of a Bangladeshi waiter in Orkney that prompted a 14-year mystery
June 3, 2024
My aunt was a double agent: How an Elgin housewife became a reluctant spy in World War Two
May 29, 2024
1970: When famous Ellon mountaineer Tom Patey died in Sutherland accident
May 27, 2024
REVIEW: Jack Docherty in David Bowie and Me: Parallel Lives, Eden Court
May 25, 2024
Who was Nan Shepherd, the Aberdeenshire writer on our banknotes?
May 22, 2024
1964: When Rolling Stones no-show in Aberdeen’s Capitol caused havoc as teenagers got no Satisfaction
May 20, 2024
Aberdeen’s typhoid outbreak: How a tin of corned beef made our city a no-go zone, in a day-by-day timeline
May 17, 2024
Aberdeen’s typhoid outbreak in a survivor’s own words, 60 years on
May 17, 2024
Highland Clearances inspire musical tribute to Scotland’s migrants
May 16, 2024
1971: Jagger weds Bianca amid fights, curses and tears
May 13, 2024
1978: Flag-waving crowds and Royal wisecracks as Queen Elizabeth opens the St Fergus gas terminal
May 6, 2024
Review: Fine dining with fearless flair at An Cala Ciuin, The Mishnish Hotel, Tobermory
May 4, 2024