November 8, 2018

A long-running bid to construct a wind farm in the Borders is being taken to a fresh appeal. Scottish Borders Council rejected a first application for eight turbines at Barrel Law near Roberton in 2013. That was confirmed by a Scottish government reporter a year later but revised plans – Read more…

BOTH Ian W Thomson and Angus MacDonald (Letters, November 7) lament the extent of foreign ownership of Highland estates. They see this as being a bad thing, whereas most of the evidence points to it having been beneficial to the local economy, to communities and to the natural environment. Mr Read more…