Posts Tagged ‘mobile phone’
An excerpt from The Unforgiven Dead by Fulton Ross
An excerpt from The Unforgiven Dead (Inkshares) by Fulton Ross one of the shortlist authors for the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize. Click HERE to read our interview with Fulton. Clouds had amassed out to the west in the time he’d been away, chased landward by a strengthening wind. The tranquil sea of earlier was now a…
Read MoreSummer Camping Kit List 2023
PLANNING a summer camping trip? Rosie Morton, Morag Bootland and Richard Bath have you covered with their ultimate camping kit list. So, whether you’re heading for a watersports adventure or for a long walk in the wilderness, Scottish Field’s Summer Camping Gift Guide is sure to make your trip truly unforgettable. Zone3 Recycled Heat-Tech Changing…
Read MoreHitting the great outdoors – 1936 and modern style
The diaries of a 17-year-old epic 500-mile cycle and hostelling holiday in 1936 were the inspiration for a new cycle adventure film. ‘What would Mary do?’ from Hostelling Scotland and The Adventure Syndicate is based on the experiences of Mary Harvie. Hostelling Scotland and The Adventure Syndicate premiered their new off-road biking and adventure tourism…
Read MoreCaledonia on my mind
Like many of those born outside Scotland to avowedly Scottish families, Dugald Bruce-Lockhart has a complicated relationship with the mothership. “WITH a name like Dugald Alastair Roddick Bruce-Lockhart, you must be Scottish,” says the casting director, studying my CV with a frown. It’s a good question – and one I’ve never known quite how to…
Read MoreThe end of the line for phone boxes?
The rise of mobile phones has made red telephone boxes obsolete but there are plenty of other uses for these much-loved cultural icons… When was the last time you made a phone call from a public telephone box? Since the mass adoption of mobile phones in the 1990s, unless you happen to have found yourself…
Read MoreScottish holiday company aims to grow in the US
A Scottish adventure holiday firm is planning to boost its business in America. Flavours Holidays, specialists in activity holidays in Italy and Spain, celebrated reaching a turnover to £3.5m by unveiling expansion plans, which includes targeting the US market, purchase of a new larger office on the Water of Leith and creating eight jobs, thanks…
Read MoreSchool backs ban on mobiles during the day
One of the UK’s most famous boarding schools is putting its weight behind calls for all schools to ban the use of mobile phones during the school day. The Principal of Gordonstoun, Lisa Kerr, says this is the only way to help the next generation develop the social skills they will need to succeed in…
Read MoreHave a say on plan to remove Highland phone boxes
There is a huge amount of opposition to BT’s proposal to remove 110 public payphones from across the Highland region. The Highland Council began a consultation, asking for the views of the public on removing the boxes. Most of the objections have cited below low levels of mobile phone ownership and their importance to elderly…
Read MoreFrom the Isle of Skye to the Playboy Mansion
Danny MacAskill makes YouTube videos viewed by tens of millions of people around the world. His secret? Riding his bike with the same spirit of adventure he had as a child growing up on the Isle of Skye. I got my first bike when I was four years old. By the time I was five…
Read MoreBT plans to pull the plug on Highland phone boxes
Public opinion is being sought across the Highlands, after BT proposed to remove 110 public payphones from across the region. The Highland Council has today launched an online consultation. Regulation set out by Ofcom, the independent regulator, states that local authorities have the responsibility to co-ordinate consultations to gather views about proposed payphone removals. The…
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