June 3, 2019

I READ your article on the latest recommendations of Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) with some incredulity (“One-fifth of all farmland ‘should be returned to wilderness’”, The Herald, May 30). At long last it has dawned on SNH, and in particular its chief executive, Francesca Osowska, the importance of preserving peatland. Read more

by Louise Glen Renewed calls have been made for power regulator Ofgem to consider the impact a lucrative 600MW National Grid link from Western Isles wind farms to the mainland could have on the area. In March, the regulator confirmed it was “minded” to approve such a link from Shetland Read more