'Outlander village' in Fife plays big part in hit show

stalker who terrorised villagers in a poison pen campaign has avoided jail.Forestry worker Ed Glenwright circulated scores of menacing emails to people in Moffat, Dumfriesshire, after he was sacked from a local ­woodland group.Glenwright sent threatening messages and falsely accused two trustees of Moffat ­Community Woodlands of being paedophiles.The 46-year-old, who was employed in October 2016 but sacked nine months later, sent some letters in which he ­threatened to kill trustees and throw

coronavirus cases has been identified in a Scottish Highlands town. NHS Highland’s Health Protection Team confirmed five news cases of Covid-19 today and have said contract tracing is underway in the Grantown area.

ire crews raced to tackle a blaze in Dunfermline last night. Two fire engines were deployed to Whitemyre Court, in the Rumbling area of the Fife town, at around 10pm after reports of a shed on fire.

Cowdenbeath, at around 6.10pm on Sunday, August 30. She was raced to hospital by ambulance crews and remains in a critical but stable condition.

woman found dead on a golf course months after she went missing has made an emotional appeal for information five years on from her disappearance. Saima Ahmed is believed to have taken a train from London to Edinburgh, via Hemel Hempstead and Birmingham, when she was reported missing on Sunday August 30, 2015 as the Edinburgh Festival season was coming to a close.

economic crisis under plans to reject lifeline grants.Citizens Advice said five offices could close in Glasgow, including the city centre, Bridgeton, Easterhouse, Parkhead and Castlemilk.

Police have launched a second appeal for a heavily pregnant woman who went missing in Fife. Kirstie Allen, who is currently 34 weeks pregnant, has not been seen for days and officers from Police Scotland are growing increasingly concerned for her welfare.

neighbour-from-hell attacked five police officers after they arrived to break up her asbo-breaching nine hour through the night party.Sarah Stewart, 23, reacted by tearing off their PPE and telling them she had coronavirus, as well as threatening to firebomb their families.Sheriff Tom Hughes jailed Stewart for 27 months and told her: "It is quite clear that on the night in question you caused considerable difficulty to your upstairs neighbour when there was an asbo against you."You paid no

Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish have been spotted filming in a coastal village in the East Neuk of Fife.

mum -of-five says her family had a lucky escape after they were roused by a fire as it ripped through their back garden. Kat Roy, from Kilwinning, was woken by the inferno just inches from her home as her family slept in their beds.

Balmoral Castle doing everything from hunting to fishing.Due to the pandemic, their 2020 trip to Aberdeenshire was thrown into doubt due to the Queen and Prince Phillip social distancing at Windsor Castle.But the royal family are not letting the outbreak get in the way of family tradition this year - but their summer holiday may look a little different.The royals will spend the next few months at their 50,000-acre Scottish estate and their relatives and in-laws will come and stay at different

children are the hardest working in the UK with one in three parents giving household chores to kids as young as five. According to new figures Scotland has the highest number of children doing jobs around the house than anywhere else in the UK, with the national average being one in five.

holiday, everyone takes a different approach.While some with have every detail of the itinerary planned and prepped, others prefer to be spontaneous and go with the flow.New research by Point A Hotels has unveiled that Scots actually fall into five types of traveller.These include the nature lover, the anxious traveller, the 'pics or it didn't happen', the go with the flow and the perfect planner.You may have an idea which you fall into - but a new quiz helps to determine which one you really

Outlander star Caitriona Balfe has launched her own Scottish gin - and it's for a great cause.The Irish actress, who plays lead Claire Randall/Fraser in the show, has created Forget Me Not Gin to support the arts and "acknowledge the positive contribution creative industries make to society".Posting on her official Twitter account, Caitriona wrote: "This is a very special product that has combined my love of collaborating with friends, drinking and finding ways to support our beleaguered

fire engines are on the scene battling the blaze which broke out on Loughborough Road in Kirkcaldy. The alarm was raised at around 7.28pm tonight, August 15, after a fire broke out inside the building.

firefighter has told how he was left barely able to walk five yards after being struck down by coronavirus. Local Senior Officer for Ayrshire, Ian McMeekin, contracted the virus at the start of lockdown and said the ordeal was something he "would never want to go through again".The 48-year-old also says that without the "outstanding" work of his GP, things could have been a lot worse.

WCT board member Dominika Torka said: “It is very exciting where we can go as a community with this buyout if we put our minds to it.”There will now be a joint valuation of the land with the Buccleuch Group, ahead of a bid for cash from the Scottish Land Fund to help with the purchase.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterA new report released today shows that five deaths last week were linked to coronavirus.The National Records of Scotland figures mean the COVID-19 death toll in Scotland stands at 4213.The five deaths mean it's the lowest recorded weekly total since the first death was recorded in March 2020.Across Ayrshire and Arran no new deaths linked to coronavirus have been registered since July 20 to July

Whisky, which launched earlier this year after making its debut on the  The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, sold out quickly in the US.

“The group have made tremendous progress already and I wish them every success in this new phase of development.”The acquisition of the building was supported by The Scottish Land Fund, The Architectural Heritage Fund and Thornhill Community Council via the Mrs May Adams bequest fund.