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Interesting news from around Scotland
1 day ago
Forty satellite tags are going onto sea eagles in the west
Forty new satellite tags are going onto sea eagles in western Scotland over the next two years, as part of a project looking at how the birds and livestock interact. Up to 35 of those go on chicks at around eight weeks old, when they're full-sized and a fortnight or so off fledging. NatureScot is funding the tags and working with RSPB, SRUC, Natural Research and a collective of independent ornithologists, with NFU Scotland and the Scottish Crofting Federation feeding in on policy. The tags can last years, so they'll show where the young birds go after they leave the nest. NatureScot senior ornithologist Andrew Stevenson says the gap in the knowledge is the immature birds, which wander widely for three or four years before they settle on a territory. SRUC is separately fitting GPS collars to lambs in Argyll.
1 day ago
Fewer than 240 buildings in Scotland still have an Angus flagstone roof
Historic Environment Scotland published an audit on 23 July which found only around 240 buildings in the whole of Scotland still have Angus flagstone roofing. Fewer than 200 of those are in Angus itself. The stone was quarried right across the county and splits naturally into flat, durable slabs, which made it good for roofing, paving and walling, and for a long stretch it was more or less the default round there. Then the quarries stopped. Roofs came off and the material got shifted onto other properties. One survivor is Davidson Cottage, built in the 1720s and restored between 2008 and 2012, which pulls a steady trickle of Harley-Davidson enthusiasts on account of the family connection. The bigger worry in the report is the specialist skills needed to keep the roofs on.
1 day ago
A 1542 castle near Inverbervie is on the market for under a million
Allardice Castle at Inverbervie has gone on the market for offers over £950,000. It dates to 1542, it's A-listed, and the current owners bought it in the 1970s and have spent the best part of fifty years restoring the place. Four spiral staircases, a great hall with a large open fireplace, vaulted rooms, a library. One of the upstairs bedrooms has a painted ceiling documenting the castle's own history, which is a strange and lovely thing to wake up under. Six bedrooms in total, and a final stair up to the watch tower chamber. The grounds run to about three acres and reach the Bervie Water on two sides, fishing rights included. Strutt & Parker reckon it's rare to find one still this close to its original form and still comfortable to live in.
1 day ago
An amphitheatre built from rescued pianos opens for its first Bruntsfield Fringe
Pianodrome is a 100-seat amphitheatre built entirely from rescued pianos, instruments that were otherwise heading for landfill at around £60 a go. It started as a Fringe pop-up at the Botanics in 2018 and has since turned up in a warehouse, the Old Royal High School and an ex-Debenhams at Ocean Terminal. Now it has a permanent home in the former St Oswald's Church on Montpelier Park in Bruntsfield, and this is its first Fringe there. The programme runs 5 to 30 August, open Wednesday to Sunday: folk, jazz, comedy, life drawing, family workshops and free lunchtime concerts. Karine Polwart and Kris Drever are both playing. Will Pickvance is the venue's Pianist in Resonance. Worth the walk out of the centre for the room alone.
3 days ago
Fringe by the Sea runs in North Berwick until 9 August
Fringe by the Sea opened in North Berwick on Friday 31 July and runs to Sunday 9 August, with more than 300 events spanning music, comedy, books, film, family and wellbeing. This year's line-up features Louis Theroux, Belle and Sebastian, Kool & the Gang, Russell Howard, Ian Hislop, Capercaillie and North Berwick author Maggie O'Farrell, so there is plenty still to catch this week. The free-to-access hub in the Lodge Grounds runs daily with street food, a maker's market, a kids' zone and live music. It's an independent, not-for-profit festival, with Rory Steel as festival director. Tickets are on sale at fringebythesea.com.
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